Wholistic Arts

Went to Checkley to view three Saxon crossed in the churchyard. I found the following information from the website    http://www.visitinghistoryinstaffordshire.com/checkleyparishchurch.asp which summed up my day. My personal addition is that of Leylines. I took my rods and found one, 23 paces as usual in width heading directly North South through the church. The crosses were diectly on Western edge of the Leyline. I too wish I could have explored the inside as the following: ST MARY AND ALL SAINTS CHURCH, CHECKLEY ‘Checkley, a small village which possess the finest church in the north of the County of Staffordshire.’  So said Charles Masefield, poet and local historian in his book ‘Staffordshire’ first printed in 1910.  (Sadly Charles Masefield died in 1917 in the First World War). He went on to say ‘the church is known as the Mother church of all the parishes for some miles and indeed St Mary and All Saint is one of the finest in the area a...

Decided to go to Ashbourne by bus for this adventure. Walked to St Oswalds church and checked out remains of a Saxon Cross and a bronze plaque from 1241. The brass plate is to commemorate the dedication of the church on 24 April 1241 by Hugh de Pateshull , Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. The inscription by the plaque shows that the church was started in the early 1200s. # Another church with an association to a poet. Quote from Wikipedia... Cultural associations St Oswald's bells inspired lines in Lalla Rookh by Thomas Moore , who lived in the area for four years: [16] Those evening bells! Those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime. Those joyous hours are passed away: And many a heart that then was gay Within the tomb now darkly dwells And hears no more those evening bells. And so 'twill be when I am gone: That tuneful peal will still ring on While ot...