The History of England’s Cathedrals Nicholas Orme, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024, pb, 306pps., US$27.95 As an amateur student of British history, my shelves creak with books about the Church in England, and the Church of England. Central in all these accounts, and unmissable in townscapes from Cornwall to Northumberland, are England’s world-renowned cathedrals… Continue reading
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Sent from Coventry
SENT FROM COVENTRY Fragments of angels, segments of saints, pieces of people, broken birds, refracted sunbeams, tumbled landscapes, jumbled inscriptions, unidentifiable blocks of time-worn colour—I looked for a long time at the medieval glass so carefully but meaninglessly re-set in Holy Trinity church beside the Cathedral at Coventry. These disjecta membra of former didactic decorations spoke… Continue reading