August 2018

31st August, 2018. Activities over the national Heritage Week.

What started out as the national Heritage Weekend has evolved, in this region certainly, into a Heritage Week +. I list here the events that I am leading; Tuesday 4th September, Hull History Centre, 11-30am, illustrated talk entitled History of Hessle Common (south-west Hull) (see list of Publications and Articles). Thursday 6th September, ‘Kardomah’, Alfred […]

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23rd August, 2018. Church studies generally.

The recent blogs on St. Edmund’s church, Downham Market, Norfolk example my take on church studies generally. Like History itself church studies has many ‘compartments’ each of which can involve a lifetime’s study, for example Modern, Medieval, Classical, social and economic, political, history of science, history of theatre, African, American, South-East Asian etc. etc. In

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19th August, 2018. St. Edmund’s church, Downham Market, Norfolk – part 3.

The dedication of Downham Market church is to St. Edmund. According to Linnell, Rev. C.L.S. Norfolk Church Dedications (St. Anthony’s Press, York, 1962) this dedication comes ninth in the rank order of Norfolk church dedications, the county’s churches having a total of 21 with this dedication (top of the rank order, as across most of the country,

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18th August, 2018. St. Edmund’s Downham Market, Norfolk, part 2.

Traditionally the royal arms were supported by a lion ‘rampant’ and a unicorn ‘rampant’, the former representing England, the latter Scotland (the above picture of a Queen Anne royal arms at Anwick church, Lincs. is taken from Alexander, J.S. andBryant, G. Royal Arms in Lincs. Churches (Barton W.E.A., 1990, 21). The shield, which sometimes changed with the

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16th August, 2018. St. Edmund’s church, Downham Market, Norfolk.

Despite my comments about St. Edmund’s church, Downham Market in the previous blog I have to admit that I have never been inside. Ely and Norwich diocese are much better at encouraging parochial church councils to make arrangements for the access into churches than they use to be, often with a nominated key-keeper living nearby with

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15th August, 2018 The nature of chalk, part 4, south-west Norfolk, part 2.

The town of Downham Market stands astride the scarp slope of the East Anglian Heights (as does Caistor in Lincolnshire) with St Edmund’s church sited at the highest point. As the scarp slope overlooks the level Fens to the west as far as the eye can see the church forms a prominent landmark and, even without

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