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Paradoxplace Home Page Ciaofamiglia Home Page
BELLATROVATA (aka eunoia)
Adrian Fletcher & Sons, with Dom Paradox D.O.C.G. aka Paradox of Paradoxplace, and family website ciaofamiglia
IN BRITAIN SEPTEMBER - NOVEMBER 2009
Finding interesting new (for us) places, revisiting interesting old places and tracking down the churches and chapels in England where 7 generations of our ancestors were married
Link to Bellatrovata 2011 road trip
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BACK TO THE BEGINNING - MID SEPTEMBER 2009 THE FIRST LEG - HIGHLIGHTS FROM EAST ANGLIA, THE SOUTH AND THE WEST OF ENGLAND
Barfreston, Canterbury Cathedral, Bodium, Battle, Saint Mary Buriton, Wisborough Green, St Stephens Gloucester Road, V & A, Harleston, All Saints Mendham, St Peter Wenhaston, St Mary Magdalene Old Milton, Romsey Abbey, St Basil Toller Fratum, Emmanuel Church Plymouth, Exeter Cathedral, Sherborne Abbey, Old Church St Pancras, St Bartholomew the Great (London).
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Sunday starter - South door of the tiny pilgrim Church of St Nicholas Barfreston, near Canterbury - "the Kilpeck of the south" - hundreds of exquisite detailed photos to come, meantime here's a tongue loller .....
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also the church where Norfolk / Portsea Wine Merchant Alex Aldous married Yeoman Farmer's daughter Elizabeth Seward on 24 May 1855, and where she was buried at the end of 1862.
ANCESTORS AND WHERE THEY LIVED AND WERE MARRIED IN ENGLAND IN THE 1700s 1800s & 1900s
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Great great great great (great) grandsons James and Nick Fletcher at the Seward / Haw tomb / vault in Buriton on the morning of Saturday 26 September, 2009
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LINK TO MORE PHOTOS FROM THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND, EAST ANGLIA & WEST COUNTRY
these are just some highlights
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Just round the corner from Gloucester Road, this magnificent Becket Reliquary Box is one of the few things left in the old V & A Medieval & Renaissance gallery, because they are busy moving stuff to the new one which opens in December (2009, they say!). Archbishop Thomas Becket was hacked to death in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170.
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Up country a bit in Suffolk, East Anglia, our search for the family wine merchant in Harleston (near Norwich) is interrupted by the discovery of an extraordinary painted medieval last judgement (detail of the jaws of hell bit above) in St Peter Wenhaston.
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A medieval Romsey abbess clings to her temporal authority in death.
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Saxon rood over 1000 years old (about 1M high)
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Team Paradox has just missed out on Romsey Abbey (ex-Nunnery) on a couple of previous occasions. Today we finally made it, through the cold driving October rain, and fell in love - it's a stunning place and there's a Paradoxplace page already:
Link to new Paradoxplace page on Romsey Abbey Church of St Mary & St Etheldreda
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LINK TO MORE PHOTOS FROM THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND, EAST ANGLIA & WEST COUNTRY
these are just some highlights
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On to the south-west, through heavy rain and waterlogged roads, to the tiny Knight Hospitaller chapel of St Basil, in a farm field in the hamlette of Toller Fratum (9 miles north of Dorchester, Dorset). We're here to see the knights' 1100s font ....
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On the way back from the West Country, the Sherborne Abbey mermaid roof boss put our new Nikon 300 lens to its first big test.
More photos from the visit to Sherborne Abbey are already in Paradoxplace.
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The exciting find of a day in London was the Church of St Bartholomew the Great, next to St Barts Hospital (opposite the Smithfield markets). The church is in fact the choir and chancel of the church of the original Augustinian priory built in the early 1100s - the original nave not being there any more. It is the "purest Norman" left in London.
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LINK TO MORE PHOTOS FROM THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND, EAST ANGLIA & WEST COUNTRY
these are just some highlights
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Bellatrovata is the original "on the road" site for Adrian (aka Adriano and Dom Paradox) Fletcher's European explorations. Material relating to explorations in Italy (including Tuscany, Rome and Venice), Spain, France and Britain between 2004 and 2006 has now been transferred to Adrian's main web site - Paradoxplace - and Bellatrovata contains photos and stories from the Autumn 2009 road trip in England.
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Most material in this site is © Adrian Fletcher 2000-12 - the contents may not be hotlinked or reproduced except as explained in the Paradoxplace copyright policy. Feedback and comments to afletch at paradoxplace dot com
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