The floor memorials in the Lady Chapel of All Saints Oakham. A post that describes the memorial floor slabs that cover graves in the Lady Chapel at All Saints Oakham – discussing the memorial inscriptions and the layout of the plots. (December 18th 2025)
All Saints Oakham Flower Festival 1996. A photo blog showing some views of the 1996 flower Festival at all saints Oakham. (December 18th 2025)
Oakham adverts 1932. Some pages from an All Saints Oakham church guide of 1932 that show adverts for a number of business in the town at that time. (December 18th 2025)
An ancient solar alignment in Oakham? A blog that considers the somewhat uncertain evidence for a mid-winter sunset / mid-summer sunrise solar alignment through All Saints Oakham (September 19th 2025)
Oakham and Rutland blogs – a compilation (June 6th 2025)
All Saints Oakham blogs and presentations – a compilation (June 6th 2025)
The Morris memorials in All Saints Church in Oakham. A post describing the Morris memorials in All Saints Oakham – the pulpit, a stained glass window and the reredos (June 5th 2025)
The memorials of All Saints Oakham. Photographs and brief descriptions of the wall mounted memorials at All Saints church in Oakham (May 19th 2025)
From Oakham to Mandalay. The story of a young curate from Oakham and his brief service as a missionary in Burma before his early death (April 29th 2025)
Kinetic Water Power – some odd words on a memorial in All Saints Oakham led to some interesting findings about how church organs were powered at the start of the 20th century (25th April 2025)
Stephen Glynne’s Church Notes – Oakham All Saints. A post that sets out and discusses the notes made by Sir Stephen Glynne on his visit to Oakham All Saints around 1849 (21st April 2025)
The Harrington Bequest. Two posts that consider the bequest of Anne, Lady Harrington in 1616. Part 1- The charity, Part 2 – Oakham Parish Library (31st March 2025)
The Oakham Parish chest. A short post that describes the large medieval wooden chest in All saints Church in Oakham (31st March 2025)
The street topography of early Oakham. A post that considers how the street of Oakham and the surrounding areas might have been configured in the Anglo-Saxon and Norman periods (December 8th 2024)
Relics and hermits. A blog that considers the proposal, made in a lecture in 1860, that All Saints Oakham once housed both relics and hermits. (November 25th 2024)
Public Transport in Oakham from the 1960s to the present. A blog that looks how road and rail transport in and through Oakham has developed and degraded over the last 60 years. (November 15th 2024)
The chancel and chapels of All Saints church Oakham – Gilbert Scott’s legacy. A post looking at some aspects of the restoration of All Saints Oakham in 1858 (November 5th 2024)
A time to mourn, and a time to dance – the All Saints season through the ages. The recording and transcript of a talk given at All Saints Oakham on 31/10/24 (November 3rd 2024)
The 1858 Restoration of All Saints church in Oakham. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 Three linked posts giving the transcripts of press reports of the restoration and re-opening of All Saints church in 1858, including the condition report by Gilbert Scott (October 9th 2024)
The first Mercian Lands This post gives my very speculative thoughts on the origin of the kingdom of Mercia discussion of the origin of the Kingdom of Mercia in the centuries after the end of Roman rule. (first published as web page on June 30th 2020, republished as post on August 4th 2024)
Oakham roofs. A photo blog simply showing the upper floors and roofs of the buildings on the north side of the High Street in Oakham. For no other reason than I like roofs. The history is implicit rather than explicit (July 23rd 2024)
A walk around Oakham. A somewhat idiosyncratic photo set of a walk around Oakham, showing things that have caught my eye whist walking the dog. Bits of history, but not much! (July 12th 2024)
A possible Anglo-Saxon church group at Oakham in Rutland. Some thoughts on church and castle alignments in Oakham (May 6th 2024)
Commemorating the 1000th Anniversary of the birth of Queen Edith. An address / sermon delivered by me at All Saints Oakham on March 10th 2024, at a Choral Evensong during the Queen Edith Festival (11th March 2024)
The good, the bad and the grotesque – the decorated capitals of All Saints church in Oakham. An examination of some wonderful medieval stone carvings in Oakham Parish Church (3rd February 2024)
Rutland – an enigmatic history – a consideration of three oddities about the early history of Rutland (2nd February 2024)
Rutland and the Hwicce Some further thoughts on the County of Rutland and its association with the Hwiccan tribe of Worcestershire and Gloucestershire (30th December 2023)
The Origin of Rutland – some speculations on the early history of the area where I now live (2nd December 2023)
The Midland Tornado of 1545 – a discussion of a major historical storm in the UK. What were the likely windspeeds involved, and was it really a tornado? (14th April 2021)
More on the Tribal Hidage – a brief consideration of some issues associated with this enigmatic document, which includes the area that is now Rutland. (June 30th 2020)
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