Late afternoon sunshine on the lower ponds in Holywells Park right now. Testing out my new phone after cracking the screen of my old one in Norwich yesterday!

Today's the feast of St Anselm, 11th Century Italian Benedictine monk and theologian, and Archbishop of Canterbury 1093-1109. Here he is putting Henry I in his place in glass by Moira Forsyth, 1964 in Norwich Cathedral.

I was there yesterday, visiting St Mary Magdalene. It's a great view.

Not many survive, or are retained in their original state. But most churches built or refurnished c1700-1840 will have had them, before the Victorians came along and went all serious on us. Here are the cream painted box pews at Tunstall, Suffolk, refurnished c1780:

Painted benches were the norm when the church was built c1840. Stripped wood benches are a later Victorian affectation, aping medieval survivals.

To be precise, St John the Baptist is Norwich's largest Post-Reformation church, but I wasn't counting it as it's now a cathedral.

2/2 Holy Trinity, Norwich, looking west.

Holy Trinity, Norwich. In this resolutely protestant city, its largest post-Reformation church.

St William of Norwich, one of the figures from a 15th Century screen formerly at St James, now at St Mary Magdalene. The panels were moved here after St James closed in the 1970s. It's now the famous puppet theatre.

Christ Church, Eaton, Norwich. I was pleased to find glass by Antony Holloway, who is perhaps best known for those four great west windows in Manchester Cathedral.

The discreetly suburban Christ Church, Eaton, Norwich, at one with its affluent neighbours.

The church was gutted in the Blitz, and has a rich scheme of 1960s glass by King & Son and William Morris of Westminster.

Julian of Norwich with her cat by Paul Jefferies for King & Son.

Onward, to St Thomas, Norwich. A big church.

St Catherine, Mile Cross, one of the lamps in the nave.

I love it, one of my favourite 20th Century churches, so playful and yet functional, and the interior of a piece with cinemas of the time.

St Catherine, Mile Cross. 1930s neo-Norman meets Art Deco and has a jolly time.

Next stop on this fine Norwich morning, St Catherine, Mile Cross in all its 1930s neo-Norman splendour.

Christ Church, New Catton, Norwich.

Next stop, Christ Church, New Catton in Norwich's Victorian suburbs.

First stop on today's Norwich trip, St Mary Magdalene.

On the train to Norwich. East Anglia doing its Ukrainian flag thing again.

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'Here lyes William Welsh, Pentland Martyr, for his adhereing to the Word of God...'

Welsh was captured at the Battle of Pentland and hung at Dumfries on 2nd January 1667. His head and hands were cut off and displayed on the Bridgeport in the town.

The memorial was renewed in 1873.

'Stay passenger, read; here interred doth ly
A witness 'gainst poor Scotland's perjury.
Whose head once fix'd up on the bridge-port stood
Proclaiming vengeance for his guiltless blood'

An inscription to the covenanter William Welsh, in Old St Michael's kirkyard, Dumfries. 1/2
#MemorialsMonday

'And they said one to another,
Did not our hearts burn within us,
While he talked with us by the way?'

The Supper at Emmaus, by William Wilson, c1960 at the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, London.

Thank you!

Mary Lowndes was an important figure in the stained glass world and beyond. She co-founded the Glass House in Fulham, where many early 20th Century artists worked, and she was also the designer of many of the Suffragette banners.

Here's the whole thing:

The supper at Emmaus, by Mary Lowndes, 1920 at Snape, Suffolk, the subject of today's Gospel.

2/3 'He was known to them in Breaking of Bread'

The supper at Emmaus by Goddard & Gibbs, 1980 at Gosfield, Essex. The artist was probably John Lawson, I think.

The supper at Emmaus, by Roger Fifield, 1974 at Wing, Rutland.

'And it came to pass,
As he sat at meat with them,
He took bread, and blessed it,
And brake, and gave to them.

And their eyes were opened,
And they knew him;
And he vanished out of their sight.'

Excellent, thank you!