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Life isn't about finding yourself, it is about creating yourself'

George Bernard Shaw
If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
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Saturday, September 3, 2011

Strange Creatures revealed

Dog Woman revealed......
Rarely-open St Mary's Church, Chilton, is staging a two-day exhibition over National Heritage Weekend.(10th /11th). It commemorates the 150th anniversary of the completion of the first stage of a Victorian restoration that gave the interior a pseudo medieval look.

 But genuine 15th century gems survived including a tiny wood carving near the reading desk. It appears to be the head of a woman wearing a wimple of folded linen. But recent closer examination revealed that the face has a dog's jaw with an extended tongue.

The exhibition also puts the spotlight on three other strange creatures in the church as well as telling other Chilton stories including how the church silver vanished to  Wales, the Iron Age neighbours in Church Field Road and how the art of recycling has beautified the church. One of the many photographs featured will be a German Luftwaffe spy plane view of Chilton and its church in 1940.

St Mary's will be open on Saturday (10th) from 9am to 5pm and on Sunday from 10am to 2.15 pm. This is followed by the harvest festival at 3pm. After the weekend, the exhibition will transfer to St Gregory's Church, Sudbury, for a week. 

Thanks to Val Herbert for contributing this article.





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