Archive for April 5th, 2010

Eastertide, Simnel Cake and a Sense of Place

April 5, 2010

Today is Easter Monday, and as the greeting goes at Wakefield Cathedral just 300 yards from my studio, Christ is Risen, He is Risen Indeed! Although I no longer celebrate Easter I find it hard to ignore its presence in the life of my family or in the vivid memories of past Easters spent at Stanbrook Abbey in Worcester.

The chapel by Pugin at Stanbrook Abbey

 

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