Moving bishop out of Wells palace is just not 'croquet'
MAY I also add my pennyworth to the debate over our new bishop’s living quarters, indeed can they still continue to be called a “palace”?For many years our bishops have been honorary presidents of the Palace Croquet Club, opening our season every spring. As the club’s secretary, I feel sure that I can speak for most, if not the great majority of its members, in condemning the decision to house him outside the palace.The fact that Cardinal Wolsey didn’t live there because he never came…

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Plea from Australia: don't stop free Glastonbury Tor bus
I FEEL I must write and comment on an article I read about the possibility that the free bus to Glastonbury Tor may be stopped.I think they should think again.In August, I parked near the Tor and my car was broken into.My handbag was stolen and the hire car was damaged.I was on holiday staying with my sister in Shepton and you can imagine the problems I had getting all my cards and driving licence etc replaced. I lived in Wellhouse Lane, Glastonbury, for 20 years before moving to…

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Bishop's Palace of Wells: the clue is in the name
Surely a Folly?Church commissioners’ decree,A bureaucratic folly, surely?They should be stoned in the square.Although I bear them no personal malice,Will any tourists come to see,The diocesan office facility,When there’s nobody there?So it’s them we’d have to blame.If visitor numbers are growing thin,The Bishop of Wells’s palace,Should really have a bishop in,You see, the clue’s in the name.Paul RogersLower BurcottWells

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Bishop's Palace issue 'unmitigated disaster for new Wells bishop'
RE: The bishop’s residence.It is just over 20 years since I retired to Easton, where for much of the time I have been a church warden at St Paul’s in the village, (“a footsoldier” like the Rev Stuart Munns), but I cannot remember any issue concerning the Anglican Church in Somerset which has caused so much anger, resentment, frustration and disillusionment in the Church at large.Indeed not one voice seems to have been raised in favour of the Church Commissioners’ “decision”…

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