Another Day Another Window

Today in the Priory museum I've been looking at some of the stone carvings, all dating back to the twelfth-fourteenth centuries.  There is a carving of St Gregory, of a demi-angel, of a Crowned Madonna (very rare in this country), and of the birth of Christ.  A photograph shows the nave lit by electric light for the first time in 1934.  The one cast iron item is a poppy head pew end, used from the mid nineteenth century to the mid twentieth century, when the pews were replaced by chairs.

Outside the window can be seen St Catherine's Hill, the original site for the Priory.  Legend has it that building materials were placed up there, but mysteriously moved to the present site.  So the builders gave in and built the Priory where it is.