St Cosmas and St Damian, Stretford
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poliphiloA church in a farmyard. A very small church, now redundant and in the care of the Historic Churches Conservation Trust. Phil Rickman's clerical sleuth Merrily Watkins visits it twice- once to clear up after Satanists and again to bless a girl who thinks she's being haunted.
There are two aisles of equal dimensions with a peculiar boxy shrine in the middle dedicated to the medical saints Cosmas and Damian- who are famous for miraculously grafting an Ethiopian's leg onto a Caucasian amputee. Two pairs of medieval effigies are tucked in against the wall. It's a very dark in there.
There are two aisles of equal dimensions with a peculiar boxy shrine in the middle dedicated to the medical saints Cosmas and Damian- who are famous for miraculously grafting an Ethiopian's leg onto a Caucasian amputee. Two pairs of medieval effigies are tucked in against the wall. It's a very dark in there.
