Places of Worship
There are six churches in Droitwich including the Anglican churches of St. Andrew's, a Norman building where St Richard was probably baptised, The church tower was demolished in the 1920s after becoming dangerous due to land subsidence; St. Augustine's at Dodderhill, completed in 1220 and rebuilt in the 18th century on a hill which was the site of a former a Roman fort and a later Anglo-Saxon church; St Peter's, built on the site of a former Saxon church, has parts, including the chancel, that date from Norman times, and has a memorial to Edward Winslow, one of the Pilgrim Fathers who was born in the parish. St. Nicholas which was built Victorian times, near the railway station; and the Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart and St Catherine of Alexandria, on a building styled on the Roman basilica churches of Ravenna in Italy, and having the feature of the interior walls being covered almost entirely of mosaic and marble designed by Gabriel Pippet. There are also a number of other chapels including Methodist, Baptist and a vibrant Salvation Army Hall.
Read more about this topic: Droitwich Spa
Famous quotes containing the words places and/or worship:
“‘Whence thou return’st, and whither wentst, I know;
For God is also in sleep; and dreams advise,
Which he hath sent propitious, some great good
Presaging, since, with sorrow and heart’s distress,
Wearied I fell asleep: but now lead on;
In me is no delay; without thee here to stay,
Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me
Art all things under Heaven, all places thou,”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“Could it not be that just at the moment masculinity has brought us to the brink of nuclear destruction or ecological suicide, women are beginning to rise in response to the Mother’s call to save her planet and create instead the next stage of evolution? Can our revolution mean anything else than the reversion of social and economic control to Her representatives among Womankind, and the resumption of Her worship on the face of the Earth? Do we dare demand less?”
—Jane Alpert (b. 1947)