The Hearth of Mopsus

"Gothic Isn't Just the Spiky Bits on Churches"

Sunday, 31 July 2022

Holiday

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What a lot I managed to do during my week off. Resisting my natural instinct just to lie in a darkened room for five days, I amassed a pleas...
Friday, 29 July 2022

S Tosoni & E Zuccala, 'Italian Goth Subculture: Kindred Creatures and other dark enactments in Milan, 1982-1991 (Palgrave, 2020)

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The authors’ earlier Creature Simili came out as long ago as 2013; the newer book covers the same ground, but has been considerably reworked...
Wednesday, 27 July 2022

Dorset Deco - Survivals and Perils

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A trip to Dorset yesterday gave me the chance to revisit some of the Poole-and-Bournemouth area's Art Deco buildings which I last paid a...
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Monday, 25 July 2022

Into the Woods

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  Would anyone come to our first attempt at Forest Church? In the end there were 15 doughty souls (including me) who took the path through t...
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Saturday, 23 July 2022

Normal Service

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  You don't often see pirates watching country dancers, let alone see them in your parish church, but this was the scene at the Infants ...
Thursday, 21 July 2022

The Church amid the Heat

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At the very moment at tea-time on Tuesday that I was listening to a BBC reporter talking about the fire at Wennington in Essex, and mentioni...
Tuesday, 19 July 2022

Good Shepherd, Dockenfield

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Time to consider that church I mentioned visiting on my trip to the Frensham area - Good Shepherd, Dockenfield, a chapel in Frensham parish ...
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I realised I actually enjoyed reading my friends' blogs, and so have made my own, with an oblique nod to 4th-century theologian Theodore of Mopsuestia. Christian and Gothic matters will probably predominate. Names are changed to protect the furtive.
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