Canterbury Tales
Yesterday I went to Canterbury and to Rochester with the Merton Chapel trip - we visited Rochester Cathedral (founded in the 7th century!) and Rochester Castle (very impressive!) and then went on to Canterbury, which is still a walled town, with lots of narrow streets, overhanging buildings and shops, and a vast, beautiful cathedral in the middle of it all. The subject of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and the seat of the head of the Anglican Church, it is a very impressive edifice - the nave is huge, with soaring columns, the crypt is beautiful - a great place for prayer and meditation - and the towers and the choir and the stained glass are very beautiful. Enjoy the pictures...I certainly enjoyed the trip. What made it even better was attending a service in Canterbury Cathedral with a massed choir singing lots of the Psalms...it was really great.
posted by Nathan at Sunday, November 05, 2006
13 Comments:
There is something very Heavenly about worshipping in a great cathedral, mass choirs and different colours of light beaming through the windows. Sounds beautiful...really enjoyed those cantebury pics! Blessings for this week my friend, R
aaaahhhhhhhhhh..... :) happiness in my heart Nath!!
hey nate
sandy(friend from varsity) says that she really likes the first one
anyway have a great week. codes
wow wow wow wow WOW!
so awesome (in the original unadulterated sense of the word). i saw your pictures on facebook too. oh for soaring columns lifting their hands in praise! there's something so fantastic about ancient faith. it's stood firm, you know?
Phew Nathan. It looks really great. You are having a blast! We were chatting the other day: you weren't made for Oxford: Oxford was made for you!
wow. . everytime you put up pics half of rhodes goes woah (and everyone else you know) :) its so great..thanks for keeping us all so updated.. and i def know my knowledge of oxford has grown a lot!
These are SO beautiful. Especially the first one, I love the lighting.
wow nath! these are so beautiful. really really amazing. what a incredible opportunity to be able to see and experience all this nath! very very cool! blessings..
i get so excited about reading your blog.. its like u taking us everywhere with u :) its great!
I can't quite believe that you got to see those things in real life!! wow what amazing pics!! I vote this the blog with the best pics ever!!
You seem to spend all your time sightseeing... Maybe you should actually do some work??? Jeremy & Ian ;)
Jeremy is just jealous!
Finally got round to looking at your pics - simply amazing.
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