Worth a visit
Lunch in the nearby village of Beetham. Cold ham, fried egg, chunky chips, syrup sponge pudding and custard all for £7.95. Can't be bad.
Short walk to the Parish church of St. Michel and All Angels. A Grade 1 listed building and worth a visit by anyone interested in English history and church architecture. The lower part of the tower is thought to date from Anglo Saxon times before the Norman conquest.
Today's photograph shows just a few of the many lovely things to be found there.
At the top left is Ethelberga who married King Edwin of Northumbria and converted him to Christianity. She died in A.D. 647.
The three figures at the top right are:
1. St. Oswald King of Northumbria from A.D.634 to 642.
2. King Charles I
3. St. Alban, the first recorded British martyr who died in AD 304 appropriately in St. Albans.
You may be relieved to know that I have not yet discovered the identity of those in the lower panels. But of course I will.
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