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Ship of Fools: Word Alive, Redland Parish Church, Redland, Bristol, England
The Mystery Worshipper
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Ship of Fools: Word Alive, Redland Parish Church, Redland, Bristol, England
Respect creation – except for this beautiful building
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I'd love to know what's so pagan about the altar.. Or is it simply too 'popish' (unlikely, if it's 18thC) for current tastes?
One assumes that the screen is retracted out of service time, and that the portraits you mention are put elsewhere, so a visit during the week (is the church open other than on Sundays?) might enable you to see the building properly.
It is a rather splendid building, I agree!
This idea of the building being the way to heaven is hard to get across when people keep telling me the Church is the people, not the building. They feel very strongly about it.
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I'll get me coat...
Aha, a good sound reason fo the practice - thanks Miss Amanda. And clever vicar at Redland church to to know this as well. Here was I thinking it was just a bit of sacrilege.
John and Martha are buried in the church and their likenesses are the sculptures by Rysbrack.