Easter cliché

It has been a very grey day, and wet latterly (we  dried off in front of a radiator).

We called into Christchurch this morning - a bit of shopping, but also to the Priory Church. This is one of my all time favourite English churches - simply magnificent, and so many good things to say about it. 

I'll just talk about what you can see in the extra. The wonderful Jesse Screen, constructed in 1360, and somehow surviving the Reformation and Civil War remarkably intact. To its left, the chapel dedicated to Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, whose body lies in the grounds of the Tower of London - she fell foul of Henry VIII. Just off picture to the right one of our favourite sculptures, that of Harriet Susan Countess Fitzharris and her children - maybe sentimental, but very touching. And to either side of me some of the best Misericords you will find in any church. And it is a living church - in this shot, one of several ladies preparing the floral displays of lilies for Easter.

And the blip - daffodils with the west front to the Priory Church in the background.