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Happy #VolunteersWeek! At the CCT we have over 1800 volunteers across the country and there are lots of fun and exciting ways in which you can get involved. Find out more about volunteering with us - https://t.co/WyWvUlk5f4

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30 May

Ghastly! *shudders*

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13 May

#AnimalsInChurchesHour: Wed 15th May
This week’s theme is #FontsOfAllKnowledge

#AnimalsInChurches @LandscapeIan @ChurchyardSam @TheCCT @TheSRCT @HE_Archive @friendschurches @PosyHill1 @pacoulmag @stiffleaf @johnevigar @EngChurchPics @ChurchMonuments @Horatioforever @BSMGP

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11 May

“Great buildings, like mountains, are the work of centuries, each wave of time lays down its alluvium... The universal history of mankind might be written from these successive weldings of different styles at different levels.” -Victor Hugo

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9 May

Devasted at the super sad news of another museum set to close due to lack of funding. Yorkshire Waterways Museum tips into insolvency | Museums Association https://t.co/sWgg1Dipjc

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8 May

For this week’s #animalsinchurches theme of #BiblicalBeasts, here’s a 15thC carved boss from the second bay of the nave vault of Norwich Cathedral, depicting Noah's ark at sea with the animals. Just too fabulous!

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Why do I love visiting historic churches?

Why do I love visiting historic churches?

Published 1st March 2017 by Rachel Arnold

“Historic Church” – There must be thousands of these signs scattered across the country yet every time I see one I am gripped! My mind races and I wonder what could be waiting for me at the end of that…

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‘Weep not for me your sighs and tears are vain’

‘Weep not for me your sighs and tears are vain’

Published 30th January 2017 by Rachel Arnold

In the quiet leafy churchyard of St. Everilda’s church in Nether Poppleton I came across this beauty: Husband farewell and earthly friends adieu What in my power I’ve done for you My debt is paid, sec urely now I rest…

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Hannah Hartley – Haworth

Published 27th July 2016 by Rachel Arnold

Weep not dear friends, but be content, For I was only to you lent; In love we lived, in peace I died, You ask’d my life, but was denied. Gravestone in memory of Hannah Hartley wife of John of Stanbury.…

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John Bland – Haworth

John Bland – Haworth

Published 25th July 2016 by Rachel Arnold

“Farewell vain World thou shop of toil and pain. With the Redeemer now we hope to reign. Welcome sweet death thou entrance into bliss. A place of rest owhat a change is this.” This gravestone is to be found in…

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