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A detail from North III, one of seven surviving 12th- to 13th-century Miracle Windows in Canterbury Cathedral. The entire 6m-high window will soon go on display at the British Museum in London—having been reassembled correctly for the first time in centuries © The Chapter, Canterbury Cathedral The email message “It’s leprosy! Hurrah!” sent from Canterbury to Toronto last September was as joyous as it was brief. It solved a centuries-old puzzle and opened up a lost medieval world in glorious colour. The sender was Leonie Seliger, the glass conservator of Canterbury...

Published: April 19, 2021 at 4:37 pm On 29 December 1170, four of King Henry II’s knights murdered Archbishop Thomas Becket inside Canterbury Cathedral, scattering his blood and brains across the pavement. The killing, 850 years ago, marked the end of one of the most brilliant, divisive careers of England’s Middle Ages. Yet, in many ways, it was also a beginning. Advertisement News of Becket’s killing spread quickly and, in a matter of months, he had been transformed into one of the most famous martyrs in Christian history. Becket was canonised a mere three years after his dea...

Published: April 8, 2021 at 10:04 am John of Gaunt. “What name on the roll of English princes is more familiar?” wrote Sydney Armitage-Smith, Gaunt’s first biographer, in 1904. John of Gaunt is still as familiar in our collective historical consciousness as he was over a century ago, yet over time he has been progressively marginalised in favour of more famous historical figures. Advertisement Born: March 1340, Abbey of Saint Bavon in Ghent Died: 3 February 1399, Leicester, age 58 Parents: King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault Known for: Third surviving son of Ki...

The youngsters were welcomed during a specially choreographed, Covid-safe ceremony after Evensong. The “bumping” tradition for admitting choristers went ahead this year, with the chorister tutors for each choir - Jake Reynolds (boys) and Emily O’Donnell (girls) – doing the honours along with Salisbury Cathedral School’s head master Clive Marriott. All three staff wore masks. The girls were “bumped” as usual in the Trinity Chapel, using a giant prayer book, and the boys had their heads knocked on the ancient bumping stone in the South Quire Aisle. No one knows where the boy...

Blaenau Gwent council has secured funding in principle from the Welsh Government for the joint project also involving Aneurin Leisure Trust, which will allow the Coalfields Regeneration Trust to develop work to carry out an internal refit of the chapel. The Coalfields Regeneration Trust has submitted a bid for a community asset transfer of both Trinity Chapel and the current Abertillery Library building in Castle Street. If successful, Coalfields would look to turn the former library into a training centre for young people, providing the skills to start businesses and get jobs in the ar...