[MR] Wikipedia: Church of St. Etheldreda's, London

[Garth Groff and Sally Sanford]

Noble Friends,

Wikipedia's featured picture for today is the nave of St. Etheldreda's
Catholic Church in London. This Grade I listed church was built in the late
13th C as a town chapel for the Bishops of Ely. Somehow it survived the
Reformation, the English Civil war, the Great Fire of 1666, and a bomb
strike during the Blitz. For many years it was an Anglican church, but was
returned to the Catholics in the 19th C. Today it is the second oldest
Catholic church in Great Britain.

The story of this remarkable building is at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Etheldreda%27s_Church . The church's own
web site has additional photos and history: http://www.stetheldreda.com .

St. Etheldreda was a saxon abbess who founded a monastery at Ely. It is
from her foundation that the surviving Cathedral of Ely grew:
http://catholicsaints.info/saint-etheldreda/ .

Yours Aye,

Mungo Napier, Laird of Mallard Lodge  🦆