![]() In between, Ross manages to pack in a powerful array of encounters and to say that his tastes in church crawling are eclectic is something of an understatement. Peter Ross’s Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church, a natural sequel to his 2020 book on the pleasures of graveyard browsing, A Tomb With A View, is a tour of these acts of worship in stone and glass a massive church crawl which begins on a dark December morning at Pluscarden Abbey outside Elgin – as bells call the Benedictine monks to prayer – and ends 18 months later on Holy Island at dawn on the longest day. “It is, in itself, and irrespective of the members using it, an act of worship.” “An ancient and beautiful church fulfils its primary function merely by existing,” said Ivor Bulmer-Thomas, the founder of the heritage charity Friends of Friendless Churches. ![]()
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