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Nov 6, 2024 | 
thetablet.co.uk | Elena Curti
AMY JEFFS (Riverrun, 448 PP, £30), Tablet bookshop price £27 • tel 020 7799 4064The legends in this book are like dreams: a ship sails along a grassy meadow, a hermit lives on an island that turns out to be a whale, a horse walks on water. In medieval times, a “legend” was the account of a saint’s life that would be read aloud on their feast day.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
thetablet.co.uk | Elena Curti
A proposal to close one of two historic churches in central Wigan has been dropped after protests from parishioners. The Archbishop of Liverpool, Malcolm McMahon announced that the churches of St Mary and St John will remain open, saying that he had listened to the concerns of local Catholics and the wider archdiocese. “I know that my decision will be received with joy in the parish,” the archbishop added.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
thetablet.co.uk | Elena Curti
Parishioners at a church in Droitwich Spa are to receive £190,000 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to restore some of the finest Venetian-style mosaics in Europe. The money will go towards cleaning and conserving artwork that covers the interior of the Church of the Sacred Heart and St Catherine of Alexandria (1921). The mosaics were designed by Gabriel Pippet (1880-1962) who spent more than a decade decorating the church.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
thetablet.co.uk | Elena Curti
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
thetablet.co.uk | Elena Curti |Ellen Teague
The National Lottery Heritage Fund is allocating £100 million over three years for urgent repairs to places of worship. Historic Catholic churches will be among the first to seek grants to replace leaking roofs along with crumbling stone and brickwork. In some cases, this work is long overdue with fine furnishings and artwork affected by damp.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
thetablet.co.uk | Elena Curti
Catholic architectural heritageCatholics in Wigan are fighting plans to close a historic church, amid dismay that a lifeline offered by traditionalist group has been rejected. Get Instant AccessRegister for free to read this article in fullSubscribe for unlimited accessFrom just £30 quarterly Complete access to all Tablet website content including all premium content. The full weekly edition in print and digital including our 179 years archive. PDF version to view on iPad, iPhone or computer.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
thetablet.co.uk | Elena Curti
A Catholic community that provides homes for destitute women and children is in financial crisis and says it has only around four weeks of funding left. The Catholic Worker Farm, near Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, looks after 18 asylum seekers and refugees from countries in the Middle East and Africa, as well as from Ukraine. The residents include undocumented migrants and victims of domestic abuse.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
thetablet.co.uk | Elena Curti
A Catholic community that provides homes for destitute women and children is in financial crisis and says it has only around four weeks of funding left. The Catholic Worker Farm, near Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, looks after 18 asylum seekers and refugees from countries in the Middle East and Africa, as well as from Ukraine. The residents include undocumented migrants and victims of domestic abuse.
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May 28, 2024 | 
thetablet.co.uk | Elena Curti
A remarkable Arts and Crafts chapel in the vast complex of Nottingham City Hospital is on the Victorian Society’s top ten endangered list for 2024. The large, idiosyncratic building, which incorporated a Catholic chapel, closed in 1988 and has been stripped of its beautiful furnishings. In recent years, it has been used as a store. The chapel is described by the Victorian Society’s president, James Hughes, as “one of the most extraordinary hospital chapels anywhere”.
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May 15, 2024 | 
thetablet.co.uk | Elena Curti
Cardinal Vaughan’s Madonna and ChildThe journey of a painting from an altar to a staircase to a cathedral chapter room exposes some turbulent episodes in English Catholic history. When Cardinal Herbert Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, attended the grand opening of the new chapel at St John’s Seminary, Wonersh in 1896, he came bearing a special gift. It was a very large oil painting to serve as the chapel’s altarpiece.
