We had the warning in Winchester on a rainy St Swithun’s Day 15 July: St Swithin’s Day, if it does rain/Full forty days, it will remain So on St Bartholomew’s Day 24 August we hope to say: All the tears St Swithun can cry /St Bartholomew dusty mantle wipes dry You come across a St […]
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A church with the very rare dedication to St Martha is found on the top of a hill on the Pilgrims’ Way between St Catherine’s near Guildford and Shere. Saturday 29 July is St Martha’s Day. The church is celebrating on Sunday at 11.15am and teas will be available in the afternoon. St Martha knew […]
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Tuesday 25 July is St James’s Day when many pilgrims aim to have arrived in Santiago de Compostela and enjoyed the eve of feast fireworks. St James the Great, bother of St John and an Apostle, is the patron of pilgrims everywhere as well as Spain and lost souls. The only St James’s church on […]
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There is briefly a rare aroma along the Darent Valley as fields begin to turn purple. The first serious colour on England’s largest lavender plantation appeared last week and it will increase day by day until harvesting in mid-month. Castle Farm, between Lullingstone Castle and Shoreham, only planted lavender in 1998 giving the already beautiful […]
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A week after the Translation of St Thomas, with the focus on Canterbury, there is St Swithun’s Day on Saturday 15 July. At Winchester Cathedral the boy choristers will sing the first evensong of St Swithun on Friday 14 July ay 5.30pm. On Saturday, St Swithun’s Day, evensong will be sung at 4.30pm by the […]
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This year 2023 the Translation of St Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, falls on Friday 7 July. The day is the anniversary of St Thomas Becket’s body being moved in 1220 from Canterbury Cathedral‘s crypt to the shrine upstairs in the rebuilt Trinity Chapel at the east end of the cathedral church. Some pilgrims aim […]
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Before you set out from Southwark Cathedral on your pilgrimage you may wish sit next to William Shakespeare in the churchyard or say hello to Hodge the cat. This summer you can also look for a large golden nest made from reflective wire in a plane tree. You will find the nest by Angela Wright […]
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There are plans for the former Kentish Drovers pub building in Old Kent Road, part of the Pilgrims’ Way, to be restored. The pub, on the corner of Commercial Way, has been a landmark since at least 1838 due to having England’s longest pub sign. This takes the form of a curving mural of extremely […]
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If you are walking from Halling to Aylesford on Sunday 25 June you will find the annual summer fair at Aylesford Priory.
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Those planning to start their pilgrimage to Canterbury this Thursday or Friday morning from Southwark may wish to know the arrangements at Southwark Cathedral for Ascension Day, Thursday 18 May. At 8am on Thursday the Dean will be leading a group of people up to the top of the tower to sing Ascension Day hymns […]
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