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A gargoyle at Cratfield is pictured at a remarkable online chronicle of Suffolk churches compiled by Simon Knott. "Churchcrawling as guerrilla warfare," is how the project has been described.
Meantime, English country churches profiled at Sylly Suffolk include St. Andrew, Norton, site of "unicorns, two martyrdoms, and a bottom well-spanked."
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Dellachiesa.com is Michael Rose's striking new site devoted to traditional church architecture, restoration and preservation. The picture galleries are visually arresting and the links to architects are of interest, though the articles are on a subscription basis. (Via Fr Tucker and the Holy Whapping.)
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Matthew at the Holy Whapping on Nov. 27 has lots on sirens and mermaids, while noting discerningly, re the Thanksgiving decorations at S. Clement's in Philadelphia, "squash and sub-tractarianism don't quite go together as well as people suppose."
Fr. Francis Sweeney, SJ, founded a humanities lecture series at Boston College that over the years drew the likes of TS Eliot, Robert Frost and Alec Guinness to campus. Here's Samuel Eliot Morison signing the guestbook. An online exhibit on the late Fr. Sweeney includes a pic of him as a novice at Shadowbrook and an image of his ordination by then-Archbishop Cushing that is quite POD. #
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