St Mary Hay on Wye

 

This week the Church Explorer starts his second day of visits to the Clerics trail and the last two churches. The first is St Mary Hay on Wye where after dodging the rain the previous day this time if found me

More tower views

 

I'm jumping ahead to last week when I visited one of the Oxford Collages, On my way back I stopped off at St Michael at the North Gate church to see if the tower was open, it was so I paid my fee and climbed up for some tower views 

 First photo you are looking at the spire of Exeter Collage to the left the green dome is the Sheldonian theater and the dome to the right the Radcliff camera the other spire is St Mary

The next sire along is Lincoln Collage Library (All Saints Church)

 

Magdalene street

 

 

St Michaels street and the Wesley Memorial Methodist Church

 

Cornmarket street, Tom Tower left and Carfax right

 

Wider view with Lincoln Collage Library spire left

 

 

Panoramic view 

 

Zoom with Shaldonian, Exeter and the Radcliff

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Teddy Hall

 

Teddy hall is the nickname for St Edmunds Hall in Oxford one of the collages there. Monty Pythons Terry Hall studied here and another guy called Sir Keir Starmer who you might have heard of. Any way the main reason I was here was because I wanted to see the Crypt in St Edmund Hall Library which used to be the Church of St Peter in the East, I had arranged to see it with the librarian. The photos will be in my Church Explorer Blog in a few weeks time.

 This is the church with St Edmund sat on a seat

 This was taken back in September and is where I was going this time

 

When I came out I had a quick look at the old Dining room, I think it is just used for special occasions now

 

In the quad you can see this building with a huge Wisteria, must look amazing in bloom

 

I thought the sundial looks in good condition

 

I'll let you read it 

 

The collage chapel, I'll write a blog in the Church Explorer sometime

 

 I'll leave you with a photo of the Quad as I came out of the chapel, I should have visited the Old Library but did not realise I could, another time. The well in the center is medieval and uncovered during building work in 1926.

Take Care 

St Eigon Llanigon

 

This week the Church Explorer visits  St Eigon Llanigon the last of the churches from my second day visiting Kilverts Churches. This is the one where he fell in love with the daughter of Rev. William Jones Thomas only to be told by the miserable fellow to leave it. Rev Thomas is buried with his unmarried daughters. 

 

Poppy Fields walk

 

I decided to take the dog for a walk around the new estate, well the last one built back in 2023 to see what it was like now. The link will show how the place changed 

Rain water pond where the gully's empty

A duck seems quite happy here

The grain silo in the distance, I'm sure I have a photo of the old barn as well somewhere

Poppy sculpture

Kids playground, never had one like this when I was young

 

The footpath through the wooded area

 

This is where I took a photo of the original field you can see in the link, no doubt the woods will hide the houses eventually 

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It's Halloween

 

Some photos from Halloween as promised 

 

Taster from the morning walk with our dog after seeing them in the village 

 Dracula's Bride met us at the gate collecting offerings

Skeletal minders
 

Collage of sights 

Spider in web

Skeletons having a party 

Copse bride was a must

 Even the dog and judge

Can't miss Betelgeuse

I recognize the figures but what film

Three witched  brewing

Couple of zombies  to end the show who handed out sweets

The whole show was very impressive to see with a lot of the figures moving around adding to the effect. Only thing that spoiled it for me was the kid behind me who insisted on a screaming at the top of her voice as we walked around 

St Mary Cussop

 

This week The Church Explorer visits St Mary Cusop which is not far from Hay on Wye.The church has a very pleasing interior and a large churchyard

 

More from September

 Last week I showed photos I took with my compact camera, this week similar ones with my phone which is what I normally take when out walking

Aberedw hill which is where we are heading

The route was different than the one normally taken but no less hard

The views are no less splendid

This view down to the campsite 

 

Is what you get from this seat in memory of Tessa Yates who died in April 2009 age 52

Further up the hill

Looking across the valley

 

Back along the path

 A last look over Aberedw Hill

 

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