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The Grail Boat (2010) is displayed at St Nicholas’ Church in Liverpool. It is amongst Greg Tricker's most interesting sculptures and is carved from 500-year-old English oak. An explanation of the piece is given from art expert, Sister Wendy:

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Old Isleworth has something of the village feel, which only a few other places in London can boast with justification. Quiet streets, quaint, riverside pubs and a few sleepy boats moored contendedly, combined to give the impression of a place which modernity did not bother disturbing.

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I once served as a juror and it was a poor experience. Magistrates were previously exempted, but this rule was relaxed, and so I was called up. The case was straight forward, I thought, but some of my fellow jurors were not the sharpest knives in the draw, and rather peculiar arguments were presented. In the end we all agreed, and I, the foreman, duly announced our verdict.

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Bishop Street Methodist Church in Leicester calls its architecture Regency (1815), which is a neat term for later Georgian. Its symmetry and use of straight lines I find rather attractive and is much better style for chapels than gothic revival which later Victorians preferred, with all its pointed arches and unnecessary towers.

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