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... words and images from church life
Vigils mark each WW1 death
For almost a century, the war memorial in the churchyard has been a silent witness to the suffering of those who died in WW1, and the familiies they left behind. Research by two members of Coleshill Town Band has started to reveal their stories and create a new, larger list.
On the date of the 100th anniversary of the death of each of those on the list, the service details are read out, a suitable poem said, and a silence observed before a half-muffled bell rings out 100 times.
The vigils will continue until the last casualty is commemorated in 2018.
On the date of the 100th anniversary of the death of each of those on the list, the service details are read out, a suitable poem said, and a silence observed before a half-muffled bell rings out 100 times.
The vigils will continue until the last casualty is commemorated in 2018.
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Bob reveals the Christmas magic of the magiVery few visitors take more than a passing glance at the stained glass windows in church, but Nuneaton photographer Bob Le Bihan's interest in them has resulted in these fabulous images.
His pictures reveal in glorious detail and colour Victorian craftsmanship. Here, in the Camm window, three wise men honour the baby Jesus. |
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In a temple in a chapel in a church,
Simeon and Anna welcome the Messiah
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The wait for the Messiah is over for Simeon and Anna,
as this window in the Lady Chapel in church shows. The window is in memory of Martha Valentine. Sheep may safely graze...
... without threat from other animals in the windows around the church.
Land ahoy! Olive branch and dove rest in a pew in church 
Does this blackbird sing in the dead of night in church?
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Playing the mating game, or just posing?
Bearing up amazingly when no Simon Smith anywhere to be seen
Stitches in time
Two letters from St Paul to the Coleshillians show a 20th century impression on a kneeler of a 700 year old church.
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Seeing double
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Most people who came through the north door don't realise there are two of them.
The glass door and wooden frame on the right and the kneeler on the left were given in memory of churchwarden Philip Deebank. The door has now been closed off and a toilet suitable for use by the disabled has been built there. |
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Jesus with and without a stitch on A kneeler remembering Hope and James Harrison mirrors Mary and baby Jesus in the Camm window. |
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The Other Hudson Meet the Rev John Blyth (right), curate, vicar and schoolmaster here in the 1700s. He taught Samuel Hudson (left), a son of the sexton of the same name, before Samuel the younger went to work in Cape Town. Samuel's larger than life story is told in the red folder in church titled The Other Hudson. Rev Blyth's name is not among the vicars listed on the incumbents' board, but appears in the Clergy of the Church of England Database as vicar from 1789-1800. |
