Monday, April 25, 2011
Canadian Heritage
We have now made it to the Wolford Chapel which we were reminded of when visiting Exeter Cathedral on 23rd April. Sufficiently organised that it was open late on Easter Sunday afternoon and that the maple leaf was flying outside (from the post in the middle of the picture).A little bit of Ontario just north of Honiton in Devon, containing various Canadian memorabilia in addition to the tomb of Lt. Gen. Simcoe and some interesting church furnishings.
These last included a painted board with the ten commandments behind the altar, which reminded me that we are commanded not to make images of anything in heaven or on earth. More specifically: '... any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth'. A rule which I believe that Muslims take more seriously than we do.
Unfortunately, not sufficiently organised not to have run out of leaflets and the one illustrated was recovered from underneath a rhododendron bush outside. We assume the perforations result from rodent action.
PS: the interest arising from my mother having come from Canada and her younger sister (and others) now living in Ontario.
# posted by Jim @ 7:40 AM 
