Beautiful Durham– Part Four

Here’s our band of pilgrims on Palace Green facing the Castle and standing in front of the Cathedral in the distance with its famous door knocker where you could grab that, and obtain temporary sanctuary from whoever or whatever was pursuing you. On the right of the picture is Ann, our good friend Meltem, and our Russian gal Yuliya who joined us for a couple of days, with her son Louey, and on the far other end of the bunch is my first cousin Mary Ann Witherington/Grotland next to Bishop Moore. In the basement of the castle is an ancient Norman chapel, and our group of pilgrims went there and had a brief time of worship in song. This is where students who live in the Castle come for worship, and I remember going several times to this worship service in the 70s. The acoustics are beautiful. Notice the gargoyles. My college, St. John’s held a lovely reception for us, complete with a change to here from the former Principal our dear friend David Wilkinson, and we got to see my friend and NT colleague. John Barclay, who has retired from the Lightfoot Chair at Durham in which he was preceded by Jimmy Dunn, and C.K. Barrett, among other NT luminaries. Here is the entrance… David gave a m...