A photo of Lincoln Cathedral’s Tournai marble font, one of only four (I think) in England made from this rock, one of the others being in the rural parish church at Thornton Curtis, between Goxhill and Wooton in North Lincolnshire. The mention of Sheffield cathedral prompted me to return to this topic for this one […]
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I don’t have a photo of St. George’s church, Doncaster but do have of Rotherham church – significance to follow. Rotherham Minster is a squat building with almost exaggerated verticality. The church square area has been well designed and affords a pedestrianised area for socialising, the church seems rather brooding, mainly because it needs a
The best part of the town (as far as I know) to see evidence of its Georgian and later industrial heyday is in the area on, and around, South Parade, which leads from the edge of the town centre to the Racecourse. Alongside the wide road stand a number of late Georgian buildings, this road
Best to visit Doncaster by train as it gives the opportunity to enjoy the business of a main East Coast Line station. To sit on platform 8 and see that King’s Cross to Edinburgh trains gliding in (see above), and leaving with almost silent acceleration is captivating. But the real buzz comes when one of
Doncaster is an historic place and the county town of South Yorkshire, it is not a place I know every inch of but I know the bits I like. It is easy to get there by train or coach or car (45 miles), but the first site to mention is a bus-ride from the bus
This photo shows a group of tall teasels in late winter with a plantation of young native trees behind (for the context see Atheism 1). Teasel is the name of the plant as well as the flower head/seed head, these in the past harvested for use in the woollen cloth making industry, these days more