Test your Medium Skills Via a Picture

[Belle]

What's really bizarre is I can see my great-grandfather in that picture! I don't think it was his stomping ground. He was a cleric and may have gone there on a holiday - as clerics often swopped parishes for holidays in those days.

New birth, creation, dancing with bells - morris dancers - although that's a bit pagan? It's noisey dancing. and lambs, baby lambs.

There's a sense of play within this.

[Lynn]

Hello

Clipping the church:


The church is the setting for an annual ceremony known as Clipping the church. It is an ancient custom that is traditionally held on Easter Monday or Shrove Tuesday in the United Kingdom. The word "clipping" is Anglo-Saxon in origin, and is derived from the word "clyp-pan", meaning "embrace" or "clasp". Clipping the church involves either the church congregation or local children holding hands in an outward-facing ring around the church. Once the circle is completed onlookers will often cheer and sometimes hymns are sung. At Rode the circle faces inwards and participants dance to the left and right before rushing inwards and cheering.


As for the sign of Jesus right on......there is a monument there. It has been reenforced (so it does not go missing) on the back with a steel brace.....

[Lynn]

Hello

Everyone did very well with this. It brings in the feeling of joy to the site. To be remembered even from a far means so very much to those there.

Thank you all that participated. I felt so dizzy when I walked around this church yard to learn that I was simply part of the 'dance' that takes place there. Its a happy place this one. Much loved and used by its community.

Lynn

[pixiethinker]

Thanks Lynn, that's lovely and am pleased you enjoyed visiting there

[Belle]

Thank you Lynn for your guidance, insights, patience and tutelage. I love these!

[O]

Does anyone else see the faces on the two roof's? I see two. One is more like a juvenile drawing of a smiley face and the other looks like a head with a halo. Its on the first photo of the church.

[Lynn]

Hello

Yes very much so on the lower roof especially, I get the feeling of C.E. Davis come to me he was the restorer in 1874.

Lynn

[Sammy]

Originally Posted by LillyMoon

when i first looked at the picture i got the feeling that a older male lived there. i seen him by the grave stones. he is a short male, greyish, blodish hair, white. he is wearing a black coat. also i feel his age is in the 60's 70's 80's

Just noticed this Lilly, I think we might have seen the same person. I was more focused on the collars link from him to the church, then I was the coat but it was black as most are for priests. The age and description you gave fits what I saw.

Is there is way to look up the history of the church? Or maybe its name/location so I could try to research for a possible match?

[Lynn]

Hello

Here is what I found on this one....like so many there is little to be found on them.

The Church of St Lawrence in Rode, Somerset, England dates from the late 14th and early 15th century. It was restored in 1874 by C. E. Davis. It is likely that there was a previous church on the same site, and some fragments of a Norman doorway survive. The church underwent significant work, initially to the pulpit gallery and bells in 1774, and Victorian restoration between 1873 and 1874.
The tower has contained bells since the 16th century; however in 1753 Thomas Bilbie of the Bilbie family of Chew Stoke cast a new peel of six bells. One was recast by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in 1817. These hung in the tower into the 20th century but were not used because of safety concerns. The wooden frame was replaced by one made of steel between 2003 and 2006 when the bells were rededicated and could be rung again.
Clipping the church:


The church is the setting for an annual ceremony known as Clipping the church. It is an ancient custom that is traditionally held on Easter Monday or Shrove Tuesday in the United Kingdom. The word "clipping" is Anglo-Saxon in origin, and is derived from the word "clyp-pan", meaning "embrace" or "clasp". Clipping the church involves either the church congregation or local children holding hands in an outward-facing ring around the church. Once the circle is completed onlookers will often cheer and sometimes hymns are sung. At Rode the circle faces inwards and participants dance to the left and right before rushing inwards and cheering.

[Sammy]

Originally Posted by Lynn

Hello

Here is what I found on this one....like so many there is little to be found on them.

The Church of St Lawrence in Rode, Somerset, England dates from the late 14th and early 15th century. It was restored in 1874 by C. E. Davis. It is likely that there was a previous church on the same site, and some fragments of a Norman doorway survive. The church underwent significant work, initially to the pulpit gallery and bells in 1774, and Victorian restoration between 1873 and 1874.
The tower has contained bells since the 16th century; however in 1753 Thomas Bilbie of the Bilbie family of Chew Stoke cast a new peel of six bells. One was recast by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in 1817. These hung in the tower into the 20th century but were not used because of safety concerns. The wooden frame was replaced by one made of steel between 2003 and 2006 when the bells were rededicated and could be rung again.
Clipping the church:


The church is the setting for an annual ceremony known as Clipping the church. It is an ancient custom that is traditionally held on Easter Monday or Shrove Tuesday in the United Kingdom. The word "clipping" is Anglo-Saxon in origin, and is derived from the word "clyp-pan", meaning "embrace" or "clasp". Clipping the church involves either the church congregation or local children holding hands in an outward-facing ring around the church. Once the circle is completed onlookers will often cheer and sometimes hymns are sung. At Rode the circle faces inwards and participants dance to the left and right before rushing inwards and cheering.

Very cool place! thank you! Ill let ya know if I find anything.