St Mary's Church, Pembridge

 

HERE is a good page about the history.  Sorry - too tired to look for it/post it last night.  "I'm sorry" seem to be the words I speak more than anything to Keith these days.

A lovely early font dating from the 13th C.

There are a series of 12 lovely embroideries (called tapestries though) which show the history of the village down the centuries.  Very skilfully and lovingly sewn.

Stunning carvings on the pulpit.  These date to the Restoration period, around 1660.

Goar family memorials. They were very important folk when the Mortimers were holding sway here.

Mason's marks - just one of many.

Superb wall memorials too.

Well, this has taken me all day, on and off and apologies for the lack of information, but I'm very tired today.  There have also been Distractions . . . Kitten-cats with rodents, Openreach calling to tell us our loss of phone/broadband yesterday was down to the hedge-trimmer cutting the line in half . . . which is why you didn't hear from me yesterday.  Then Flu jabs this afternoon - at least that's one thing out of the way. The receptionist was on the ball, saw it was us and we were about to unload Keith into his wheelchair, and said she'd send the nurse out, so we had ours in the car park!   I have my Covid jab next week, but Keith's not heard about having one yet.  Our evening meal is nearly ready - steaks cooked in the slow cooker, veg and home-made chips.

Kitten-cats have had another rodent - last seen legging it under the dresser, but now apparently mislaid . . .

After our meal I am going to check out the H E Bulstrode book about people's personal ghost stories which I downloaded to my Kindle yesterday.  I follow him on Facebook and he is always writing really interesting snippets of folk lore and history with a ghostly side to them.  He is very thorough with his research.

Nighty night.