tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post5817005289789250694..comments2024-03-25T15:10:13.792+00:00Comments on English Buildings: Scratching awayPhilip Wilkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-19012762336384141052015-12-06T17:14:15.993+00:002015-12-06T17:14:15.993+00:00Sounds like an interesting book.Sounds like an interesting book.The Greenockianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05241154433325603580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-33341127029391807232015-12-05T22:43:58.076+00:002015-12-05T22:43:58.076+00:00Eileen: I don't think the book mentions Colyto...Eileen: I don't think the book mentions Colyton, but it certainly does cover other graffiti of sailing ships and offers several possible explanations – probably different explanations applied at different places.Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-45713841521290746052015-12-05T21:19:54.025+00:002015-12-05T21:19:54.025+00:00This looks like something I might have to buy for ...This looks like something I might have to buy for my own christmas stocking. It's a fascinating subject, something which I haven't given much thought to before. The parish church in Colyton, Devon, has quite a few of these marks around the outside of one of the side doors, including a lovely sailing ship, and I imagined people scratching these marks whilst hanging around waiting to go in to service. I'll have to read the book and find out if there's another explanation! :) Eileen Wrighthttp://www.pastremains.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-49842300107381257512015-12-04T13:27:48.068+00:002015-12-04T13:27:48.068+00:00I would imagine Norfolk and Suffolk are very rich ...I would imagine Norfolk and Suffolk are very rich in graffiti, other counties much less so. I think it's a false notion that the liturgy went on "over there" and the laity were left out: the rood screen in the reconstructed church in the St Fagan's Welsh Life Museum actually unites clergy and people, particularly if the latter were standing up and could gather around it. Compare with modern churches with benches, where it's too easy to sit at the back and make the priest raise his voice. I also think that there was more literacy than many commentators claim: and at least a passive knowledge of Latin cf. the snippets in Piers Plowman. The investigation I did for my little piece on Magnus, the Lewes Anchorite (copies available gratis via e-mail) set me thinking along these lines. (Sorry for the advert!)Joseph Biddulph (Publisher)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08655472675410890012noreply@blogger.com