Michael Hodges

A father and two of his sons, both priests, designed between them a large number of churches

joseph john scoles (1798-1863) was born in london, the son of a catholic joiner. he was educated at baddesley green and in 1812 apprenticed ...

A father and two of his sons, both priests, designed between them a large number of churches

joseph john scoles (1798-1863) was born in london, the son of a catholic joiner. he was educated at baddesley green and in 1812 apprenticed ...

a biographical dictionary of english architecture, 1540-1640 mark girouard yale, £40, 372 pages mark girouard, born a catholic in 1937, is t...

The main panel shows Mary crowned as Queen of Heaven surrounded by a garland of flowers and angels spreading her protective cloak over four supplicants. The other two panels show a Nativity Scene in winter and the Coronation of Our Lady in summer.

the jesuits originally arrived in oxford in 1793 when they opened a small chapel dedicated to st ignatius in st clements. they surrendered r...

giles gilbert scott is best known these days by the british public either for his k2 and k6 red telephone boxes (now rapidly vanishing from ...

The westernmost county of England, once a hotbed of Protestant nonconformity, has a handful of notable churches

cornwall is liberally endowed with villages recording the euphonious names of early celtic saints – st endellion, st enodoc (“blessed be st ...

Two Victorian treasures have finally been returned to their original glory after decades of philistine mistreatment

in the 19th century, the “potteries” in notting dale, west london, were an area of considerable degradation, with many poor irish catholic i...

The East Anglian county has an extraordinary quantity of beautiful church architecture

norfolk was known in the middle ages for its great holiness, with streams of pilgrims making their way in particular to bromholm to venerate...

New murals enhance the beauty of the Church of St Francis of Assisi in this Catholic enclave in Warwickshire

baddesley clinton lies some eight miles to the north of warwick, in the forest of arden. the beautiful moated manor house dating from the 14...

the second catholic relief act of 1791 marked the start of a century-plus of the building of  a series of interesting catholic chu...

the ordination of dr michael nazir-ali, the former anglican bishop of rochester, as a priest of the ordinariate of our lady of walsingham to...

Charting the history of the Order which has survived over centuries and is now settled in Chelmsford

the order of canons regular of prémontré – known variously as the norbertines, the premonstratensians and the white canons – was founded in ...

<I>Michael Hodges</I> reviews Holland Blind Twilight 
by John Martin Robinson

dr robinson regaled us with the first volume of his memoirs ( grass seed in june ) as far back as 2006. with becoming modesty he has kept us...