Apart from the Stump, and its place in Protestant and maybe political history, St. Botolph's is known also for the carvings in its quire, the wooden answer to the grotesques in stone we find so interesting...
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| A couple dozen misericords, none we saw terribly outrageous |
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| But there was more |
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| The hours it must have taken to do all this, not to mention the skill... |
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| Nice English windows |
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| Huh? |
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| In 1931, no less; good on Big Boston |
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| Helpful model |
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In what is now the John Cotton memorial chapel..."the Lantern of St. Botolph's,"
as Longfellow wrote; after he sailed for Massachusetts Bay, the Church of England
replaced him with a more staid vicar, and things returned to their non-radical state
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| Part of what it takes to maintain an eight century old civic building |
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Muy importante! The Gough Map (a copy, the original, from Boston, is in the
Bodleian Library, Oxford; where it is known as the Bodleian Map): first road
map of England: 1360 |
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| Outside tracery and such |
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| And a single Green Man |
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| Market day in Boston |
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As I observed previously, there is a significant Eastern European presence in these
parts; we'd never seen a Baltic grocery... |
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| The Swan Building?! |
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