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Title: Which cathedral is this?
Post by: Julia S on Tuesday 02 December 08 03:10 GMT (UK)
I have an 1850s women's magazine which has an article about a cathedral graveyard, including some MIs. But it doesn't say which cathedral.
It says it's 2 miles from the coast, where two rivers meet, with the ruins of an abbey nearby.
Which cathedral is it?

Julia (in Australia)
Title: Re: Which cathedral is this?
Post by: Polldoll on Tuesday 02 December 08 03:32 GMT (UK)
There is one in Wales thatI know of just 2 miles from the coast ...St. Davids...
http://www.history-tourist.com/V2/wales/st-davids-cathedral_S0379.html 


Poll ???
Title: Re: Which cathedral is this?
Post by: Julia S on Tuesday 02 December 08 03:55 GMT (UK)
I think this one is in England.
And there are no rivers near St Davids.
The writer caught a ferry - in 1851 -  to get to it.
Title: Re: Which cathedral is this?
Post by: Yorkslass on Tuesday 02 December 08 10:21 GMT (UK)
Hi Julia,

I think it could be Truro Cathedral - two rivers, the Fal and the Truro meet there, and it isn't far from the coast - http://www.stmawes.info/truro-cornwall

Yorkslass
Title: Re: Which cathedral is this?
Post by: jorose on Tuesday 02 December 08 10:30 GMT (UK)
Easiest thing would probably be for us to look for some of the names in the MIs - particularly if there's any unusual ones.

Truro Cathedral wasn't built until the 1880s, so a bit too late.
Bristol? (A bit far from the coast, but there are some bits of the old abbey around there)
Exeter?
Title: Re: Which cathedral is this?
Post by: Polldoll on Tuesday 02 December 08 10:35 GMT (UK)
Portsmouth?  ???
Title: Re: Which cathedral is this?
Post by: RichardK on Tuesday 02 December 08 12:14 GMT (UK)
Chichester?
Chester?
Carlisle?
(why do cathedrals near the coast all seem to begin with C?)

Porstmouth doesn't have an Anglican Cathedral, although I think it might have a Catholic one, but that will be relatively modern.
Title: Re: Which cathedral is this?
Post by: JenB on Tuesday 02 December 08 12:35 GMT (UK)
Quote from: RichardK on Tuesday 02 December 08 12:14 GMT (UK)
Porstmouth doesn't have an Anglican Cathedral,

Portsmouth does have an Anglican Cathedral - I know because I attended a wedding there once  ;) http://www.portsmouthcathedral.org.uk/
Title: Re: Which cathedral is this?
Post by: Little Nell on Tuesday 02 December 08 12:37 GMT (UK)
Snap Jen!  St Thomas in Portsmouth used to be the parish church and wasn't elevated to cathedral status until the 20th century.

Exeter?  Ely is a bit more than two miles from the coast.

Most medieval cathedrals will possibly have some parts of an abbey nearby, since they often formed the church for the abbey/monastery.  Henry VIII may have done away with the monks etc but did not deprive the local people of their church.

Nell

Title: Re: Which cathedral is this?
Post by: Yorkslass on Tuesday 02 December 08 12:37 GMT (UK)
Hello again,

This website shows loads of cathedrals - not too many on the coast.
http://www.cathedralsplus.org.uk/index.php/front_end/map.html


How about Rochester?

Yorkslass

Title: Re: Which cathedral is this?
Post by: RichardK on Tuesday 02 December 08 14:19 GMT (UK)
Apologies to Portsmouth!  I stand corrected.
Title: Re: Which cathedral is this?
Post by: JenB on Tuesday 02 December 08 14:25 GMT (UK)
Quote from: RichardK on Tuesday 02 December 08 14:19 GMT (UK)
Apologies to Portsmouth!  I stand corrected.

But you were quite right in the sense that it wasn't a cathedral at the time in question  ;D
Title: Re: Which cathedral is this?
Post by: Julia S on Wednesday 03 December 08 06:21 GMT (UK)
Here are the MIs:

At the eastern end of this freestone here doth lie the little bones of Walter Spurrer. That fine boy that was his friends' only joy. He was drowned at Melhams Bridge the 20th August 1691.

James Welshman departed this life June 21st  1714.
Who llived to be a joyful father of seven sons and four daughters by his wife  Erlizabeth.
The better part of me is gone.
My sun is set, my turtle  flown.

Sally Williams
Died of grief
1836


Julia
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Title: Re: Which cathedral is this?
Post by: GeoffE on Wednesday 03 December 08 10:11 GMT (UK)
It appears to be Christchurch Priory ...

Walter SPURRER gets a mention on page 124 (which appears as I 24)

http://www.archive.org/stream/fromharbourtohar00danvuoft/fromharbourtohar00danvuoft_djvu.txt

Two rivers meeting, close to the coast - map http://tinyurl.com/6b78mh
Title: Re: Which cathedral is this?
Post by: Yorkslass on Wednesday 03 December 08 10:26 GMT (UK)

wow!  Well done Geoff!

Yorkslass
Title: Re: Which cathedral is this?
Post by: JenB on Wednesday 03 December 08 11:01 GMT (UK)
Well done indeed! But not a Cathedral!

Jennifer
Title: Re: Which cathedral is this?
Post by: Julia S on Thursday 04 December 08 06:40 GMT (UK)
Thank you!

Now I know which county to post these MIs on.


Julia
Title: Re: Which cathedral is this?
Post by: Little Nell on Thursday 04 December 08 12:41 GMT (UK)
Christchurch is in Hampshire  :)

Nell