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Detail from the Kitching War Memorial Window at Hull Minster

Designed and executed by James Ballantine FSA of Edinburgh.

The window expresses gratitude for Victory in the First World War.

Notice the introduction of WWI new inventions: the tank, submarine, and biplane into the design at the bottom.

See the whole window at Hull Minster, Kingston Upon Hull.
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Rochester Cathedral Interior by F. G. Kitton

Illustration for Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood, p. xxvi

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham
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"Rochester Cathedral Interior" by F. G. Kitton
"Rochester Cathedral Interior" by F. G. Kitton
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Foot’s Cray Church, Sidcup

from “Greater London ... Illustrated" by Edward Walford, 1823-1897

Edward Walford (1823–1897) was an English magazine editor and a compiler of educational, biographical, genealogical and touristic works, perhaps best known for the final four volumes of Old and New London (Cassell, London, 1878).
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The Reformation in England
But most disconcerting to Peyrson and his flock was the ferocity of the government’s new language against traditional English piety. For in their pronouncements now was a sneering contempt for the old customs and practices of the faith which had sustained ordinary English men and women for so long: pilgrimage, devotion to images and worship of saints, the old rituals of confession and absolution, the masses for the dead. To a traditionalist like Peyrson this must have been a devastating blow. He was now instructed to exhort the people of the village ‘not to repose their trust in any other works devised by mens phantasies, as in pilgrimages, offering of money or candles or tapers to images and relics … or in kissing or licking them, or such like superstitions’. To avoid the ‘detestable sin of idolatry’ he should remove from his church all such ‘feigned images’, even the beloved Virgin of Kibworth herself. Though Peyrson could perhaps not see it yet, with that the process was set in train which would lead inexorably to the rubbing away of the traditional spirit world of the English.

From The Story of England by Michael Wood

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Winchester Cathedral - a lot is made of the appearance of the Green Man in churches with attempts to trace it to a pagan past but the truth is this motif entered the English imagination from India.

“The medieval foliate heads were studied by Kathleen Bastord in 1978 and Mercia MacDermott in 2003. They were revealed to have been a motif originally developed in India, which travelled through the medieval Arab empire to Christian Europe. There it became a decoration for monks' manuscripts, from which it spread to churches.” - Ronald Hutton, How pagan was medieval Britain?

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