Tag: lychgate

• I Never Met An English Country Church I Didn’t Like

  [St. John the Baptist, Buckthorn Weston, Dorset] It’s been said by many travelers that if one wants to know what’s happening in any small English village, just go to the pub and listen for an hour.  I think the same is true, to a degree, of social life provided by the Church in these towns…

  patrickjegan

  June 4, 2015

  Blogging, Creativity, England, History, Melancholy Thoughts, Memories, non-fiction, Travels

  baptism fonts, churchyards, Dorset, effigy, English country churches, kneelers, lychgate, pews

• The Green Man: Watcher Of The Lychgate

  I am a conflicting image.  Sometimes I appear in churches, carved into the bosses of an archway.  At other times, I am associated with pagan symbols of nature worship.  I am a man and I am a tree…one part of me morphs into another.  I am called The Green Man by those who study the…

  patrickjegan

  May 29, 2015

  Blogging, Creativity, England, Fables & Folklore, Ghosts, Melancholy Thoughts, Religion

  cemeteries, England churchyards, lychgate, The Green Man, Yew trees