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...of Oxford university’s first lay trustees and led the government’s 2017 Taylor Review of the Sustainability of English Parish Churches and Cathedrals....
...Meanwhile, Dublin detective Colman Akande (Daryl McCormack) investigates the violent death of his former parish priest, reawakening his own traumas connected with “mother and baby homes”, frequently abusive...
...The oratorio Samson will be filmed at St George’s, Hanover Square, Handel’s parish church....
...Prior to the 17th century, only barons, abbots and lords of the manor could build dovecotes, later extended to the parish priest....
...Eighteenth-century Shotover Park and Nuneham Courtenay, Anglo-Indian Sezincote, the huge grounds of Cirencester Park, landscaped by Lord Bathurst and best seen in overview from the spire of Cirencester parish...
...Who LX Costa Rica, Luxury Portfolio International House, Saint Thomas, Barbados, $9.995m Where In the parish of Saint Thomas, 4km inland from the island’s west coast and 8km north of the capital, Bridgetown...
...An 18th-century house with extensive outbuildings, it sits at about the midpoint of the South Downs National Park, an area of chalk hills, farmland and woods that stretches for 80 miles or so....
...by parish clerks....
...After Twickenham Bridge comes the charming bustle of Richmond and its lovely 18th-century bridge....
...For others who just want the odd weekend escape, there’s downtown Hudson’s new star address: The Maker on Warren Street, the 18th-century whaling city’s antiques-and-craft café-lined main artery....
...The BBC reported that the gravestone of Scipio Africanus, an Africa-born formerly enslaved man who died in 1720, in Henbury Parish Church in Bristol was smashed in two....
...Several neighbours looked on from their balconies, tranquilly smoking their morning cigarettes as usual in this corner of the 18th arrondissement, the northern edge of the French capital....
...Edinburgh’s high property prices in particular ought to be offering Berwick more than a trickle of incomers to its top addresses, such as Ravensdowne with its handsome 18th-century houses and Castle Terrace...
...When Poland vanished from the map after being dismembered by Russia, Prussia and Austria in the 18th century, Catholic churches were one of the few public places — unlike schools or universities — where...
...I recently travelled to a small village on the Suffolk-Cambridgeshire border, full of optimism that I might find clues to the lives of family members from the 18th century or perhaps earlier....
...Fyodor Ushakov, a legendary 18th-century admiral, was canonised in 2000, then made patron saint of Russia’s strategic nuclear bomber fleet....
...Schoolchildren learn of heroic underground priests in the 17th and 18th centuries, when Catholicism was suppressed under British colonial rule....
...Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824), John Galt’s Annals of the Parish (1821) and, in the 20th century, John Buchan’s Witch Wood (1927)....
...In the late 18th century, the diaries of a Norfolk vicar record that he hosted a Christmas Day meal of beef and plum pudding for a group of poor men in his parish, while his niece, who lived with him, visited...
...Joel Gascoyne’s map of 1703, which was drawn up on the orders of the vicar and churchwardens, shows how the parish of Stepney was then still rural, the first parish beyond the walls of London, with a few...
...Palácio na Quinta de São Sebastião, Lisbon, Portugal, €7.5m Where In Lumiar, a civil parish 20 minutes by car from central Lisbon. Lisbon Portela international airport is a 10-minute drive....
...Cockade House, St Thomas, Barbados, $11.5m Where In the parish of St Thomas, close to the island’s western coastline. Mount Hillaby, the highest point of Barbados, is less than 10 minutes’ drive....
...What The 948-acre farm includes a six-bedroom house built in the 18th century....
...The song for the Essex village of Strethall is based on a story Hayman found in the parish records, from 1607....
...The usual community spaces are all here — café, performance space and parish lounge — but the careful use of materials and the design of the spaces so that they can flow into one another avoid any sense...
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