Visiting a Medieval Church & Holy Well in an English Hamlet // Binsey

Описание: Hello! Today we are visiting the small Hamlet of Binsey, specifically the historic church of St. Margaret of Antioch and Treacle Well of St. Frideswide that both make appearances in legends and stories.

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NOTES and SOURCES
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/s... Chapter VII Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland “A Mad Teaparty”
Dormouse tells story of three little sisters who live at the bottom of treacle well
Inspiration found in Binsey
Village is noted for the St. Margaret parish church
Dates back to 12th century
Well was dedicated to Saint Frideswide, Patron saint of Oxford
7th century: prince algar of Mercia became infatuated with her and wanted to marry her
She had sworn to celibacy and hid in Binsey
While searching in oxford Algar was struck by lightning and blinded
Frideside prayed to god - Made a spring
Waters cured the princes eyes
ALT TALE” prince breaks his neck after falling off horse and a magic well is made when the Binsey nuns complain to frideswide that they have to get water from the far river thames
Treacle:
Old word theriac
Oriental antidote / all-healing panacea in ancient greece
Pilgrims traveled to st margarets well in middle ages

https://morrisoxford.co.uk/treacle-well/
Low norman style porch
Twelfth century lancet windows
“Fragments of medieval stained glass” show the martyrdom of thomas becket
Isolatoin → value of silence
Alice in wonderland
Three sisters lived there sustained only by treacle
Saxon history
Summoned by st frideswide (oxfords patron saint) (etheldreda of ely)
Frideswide - saxon name - “peace” and “strong”
Specific association with oxford
Noble upbringings, virtue, determination to become a nun
Mercilessly pursued by Mercian king, Algar
She escaped into the thorny woods miles upstream of oxford
Algar found her location but was quickly struck blind!
She restored his sight making a holy well bubble up from the earth
Treacle is an ancient word meaning medicine or salve
Algar backed off and frideswide returned to oxford
She established a priory and did many miracles and was visited by many kings and peasants
She died on oct 19, 727 her grave is a pilgramage shrine
Oxford is tourist destination always since her
Prideswied priory set high overlooking river crossing - symbolic and strategic
King henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey (before) chose same location to put their church, college, and cathedral
Powers of the well
Henry VIII brought catherine of aragon to the well in hopes its waters would grant them a son
Treacle
Word only applied maybe in the 1960s - nearly 100 years after alice in wonderland
The princess who hid in the tree - inspired by st frideswide?
Not always remote
Binsey is close to site of the deserted village of Seacourt - last occupied around 1400
Abandonded following the black death?
St margarets well may have been closer to seacourt than binsey
Princess who hid in a tree
Jackie holderness author
Jackie is also cathedral education officer at christ church
Before pandemic gave readings to cihldren
Mentioned st friedswide

https://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/stre...
Church of St Margarey of Antioch at Binsety
Twelfth century site
One of the original monasteries of St Frideswide (patron sant of oxford)
7th century → she escaped to binsey to avoid marrying Mercian Prince Algar → he was blinded by lightning while looking for her
She prayed and brought a healing spring here and cured his blidnness with th eater
Pilgrims traveled to the well - crutches of cured cripples people decorate the church
The well was taken down in 1639 but restored by Revd T. J prout in 1874
Became famous after Lewis Carroll described it as a treacle well in alice in wonderland - first published 1865 (medieval - treacle meant healing fluid)
Regular well services held before evensong in summer during which the congregation si ssrpinkled with the holy water

https://www.osneybenefice.org.uk/home...
Pilgrimage cite for centuries
Uses the liturgy of the 1662 book of common prayer
Psalm 23 garden for prayer
“Christians have worshipped on this site for more than a thousand years.” - the osney benefice
The current building dates from the 13th century

https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/cathedral/v...

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