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Re: Lock the church doors
Jul 03, 2015, 11:36
moss wrote:
Just noticed this, thieving bastards....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-33318759

There are churches up this way (North Yorks), that have beautiful Anglo-Saxon stuff in them, what is it with people that thieve, can you sell such stuff?


How depressing. Old churches, even rebuild churches hold so much history for anyone who has the time to look. I have friends who 'don't do churches' and I used to feel like that myself. I visited a church earlier this week whilst out walking in south Wiltshire (as you wisely advise I won't name it) - it had a Saxon stone similar, though smaller, to the one in your link. It had been part of a Saxon cross and is now cemented into the wall of the current church building. There was also a very fine early Norman font there - which tend not get stolen as are too heavy.
Its always a pleasure to find an unlocked village church, holding the history of the community often dating back over 1000 years.
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