Tag: Lichfield

• Hidden Garden Haunted by a Ghostly Monk!

  Monks Walk: The carved wooden sign at the entrance. Been on holiday, and scheduled posts to appear while I was away (including this one), but nothing happened! Plus all my portrait photos, which are saved as such, are appearing here as landscape… the same thing has been happening on Facebook for weeks. I have no…

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  August 17, 2013

  ghost, Lichfield, Lichfield Friary, Monks Garden, nikon D3100, Saturday Snapshot

• Well Wishing where a Saint Stood…

  St Chad’s Well, at St Chad’s Church, Lichfield. I’m sure it ismuch nicer in summer, when the vine growing over the roofis green, but at the moment it looks like a haystack on legs. Today is the Feast of St Chad, so for my Saturday Snapshot I have some photos of his well, and a…

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  March 2, 2013

  http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Lichfield, relics, Saturday Snapshot, St Chad, St Chad’s Well

• Mud, Moss and Martyrs

  Happy New Year to you all! Earlier this week, on January 2, it was the Feast Day of The Thousand Holy Martyrs of Lichfield, who may – or may not – have been slain for their faith. St Amphibaus (whose existence is equally questionable) and his 999 followers were slaughtered (allegedly) on the orders of…

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  January 5, 2013

  Christian Martyrs, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Lichfield, nature reserve, Saturday Snapshot, walkway

• Saturday Snapshots of a Garden Where Monks Prayed

  The Friary Gardens in Lichfield mark the spot where monksonce prayed. Stepping stones in a small park in Lichfield will lead you on a 800-year journey back in time. At first glance the paving slabs laid out in the grass alongside a busy road look as if they’ve been set there in random fashion –…

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  August 11, 2012

  Dissolution, Friary, History, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Lichfield