Lidgate St Mary’s
At first glance, you might think St Mary’s at Lidgate is a fairly prosaic Suffolk parish church. Set back from the road at the end of a lane and accessed via …
At first glance, you might think St Mary’s at Lidgate is a fairly prosaic Suffolk parish church. Set back from the road at the end of a lane and accessed via …
Polstead is a lovely village close to the Suffolk / Essex border. It’s name means ‘place by the pool’, undoubtedly a reference to the large pond that sits at the …
Along a quiet lane in the Suffolk village of Troston lies St Mary’s church. And within can be found some of the county’s finest medieval wall paintings, if not England’s.
Entering through the …
Have you been watching BBC2’s historical drama The Last Kingdom? Based on the ‘Alfred’ sequence of books by Bernard Cornwell, the series charts the adventures of Uhtred of Bebbanburg – born …
Is this the location of Edmund’s coronation? Along a deserted farm track, hidden amidst woodland and overlooking the Stour Valley, is the ancient thatched church of St Stephen, also known as Chapel Barn.
On …
St Edmund’s Day celebrations continued on 21st November, including the addition of a fine new sculpture in Bury St Edmunds.
I was lucky enough to be invited to the unveiling of …
20th November is Edmund’s patronal day and, because of the ‘Edmund for England’ campaign, a particularly significant date this year. A variety of events took place to mark the occasion. …
40-year-old David Cain, from Marlesford, recently set out on a 68-mile pilgrimage across Suffolk trekking from Bury St Edmunds to Dunwich.
He is aiming to recreate a lost legendary route across …
New book about St Edmund profoundly changes our understanding of the East Anglian king and martyr.
‘Edmund: The untold story of St Edmund and his kingdom’ is a new book, available at …
Bury is the heart of the Kingdom of East Anglia, just as Edmund’s shrine was the heart of medieval Bury. Beyond the town, a symbolic landscape unfurls, linking Edmund the sacral king with his East Anglian dominion.
The A12’s bisection of Blythburgh could easily destroy any atmosphere this important village might retain. But walking down Church Road, a sense of expectation builds. Then the roar of traffic …
A wodewose (derived from the Old English wudu – wood or forest) is a ‘wild man’; a hairy forest-dwelling embodiment of nature, closely linked in its symbolism to the green …
The flint round-towered churches of Suffolk are some of its most enigmatic and atmospheric. Sometimes remote and isolated, often hidden from view behind a screen of trees, these towers loom out …