Christchurch Priory

[poliphilo]

We had a quiet day yesterday. Just pottered around Christchurch then came back to the hotel and put the tennis on- and Ailz did her cross stitch and I edited photos. Christchurch Priory is one of England's greatest churches- mainly Romanesque but with Perpendicular add-ons- and it has a Tree of Jesse which very largely escaped the attention of the little men with hammers.



Also a swoony memorial to Percy and Mary Shelley...

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[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

I'm rather fond of that weed-draped drownèd Shelley, especially as when I was last there it was tucked away in a corner of the bookshop... All bookshops should have one.

I think I remember reading that the monument was originally intended for St Peter's in Bournemouth, but they turned it down for being too big/sacrilegious(?)...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

They've moved the bookshop since. And quite right too. Churches often undervalue their possessions.

I did wonder why the monument had ended up in Christchurch- a town neither of the Shelleys had any connection with- so far as I can see.

Bournemouth's loss is Christchurch's gain.