Richard Barnes

Square on the hypotenuse. Christian, Tenor, Pisky in Edinburgh, formerly Anglo-Catholic in Exeter. Retired, visually impaired, public transport of delight.

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@GretelleMaitre Splendid. Red today for St Barnabas, Apostle and Martyr.
Back to Trinity season green tomorrow, I expect.

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On Sunday 7th June at 6.30pm, St Peter's Lutton Place, Newington, #Edinburgh.
Concert of choral music through the church year, to mark the retirement of our director of music, Rupert Forbes, after 30 years.
Purcell to Parry, Tallis to Leighton.
Free. All welcome. Refreshments.

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@SChadTollerLane @polly_speight There was a young Saint Athanasius
Who could not abide Creedal haziness
To Arian fault
He said Quicunque vult
With theology that's still amazing us

My limerick for 2nd May

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Thanks to Bijan for his help in this process.
I had 18 blessed years living close to, and worshiping in, this beautiful and welcoming church.
Be fruitful and multiply...

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Congratulations to the church of St Michael's Mount Dinham, Exeter, which today (150+ years after its foundation) has become part of a new independent parish. Laus Deo.

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@GretelleMaitre Although 400 miles away now, my childhood roots are there in the Blackmore Vale at Fifehead Neville and Fontmell Magna.
So your Dorset wanderings were one of the things that drew me to your podcast, Gretel.

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Flowers for our beloved father, Tim barnes, vorn on St George's Day 1928.
Grew up in Bedchester near Shaftesbury. A #Dorset man at heart. Also lived in Bridgwater, Gloucester and North Wiltshire.

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The awesome silhouette of Durham Cathedral, caught as my southbound CrossCountry train passed by around midday.

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@RAGriggsauthor A similar thing happened to King David of Scotland around 1120, leading him to found Holyrood Abbey at Edinburgh.

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Blossom time in #Edinburgh at St Peter's Lutton Place

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Opposite on Mount Dinham stands the magnificent grade 1 Victorian Gothic St Michael & All Angels Church, consecrated in 1868, where i had the joy of singing 2006-21.
It contains this window depicting the Psalmist David which is dedicated to the memory of S S Wesley. 2/2

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#SSWesley150 150 years ago today, 19 April 1876, church musician Samuel Sebastian Wesley died in Gloucester. His coffin was taken by train to Exeter where he was buried in St Bartholemew's cemetery near the Catacombs.
My photo of Sswesley's grave in July 2025. 1/2

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@Gda1238 Likewise my great-grandfather, Jack Prideaux, aged 23. He embarked at Southampton as a 3rd class steward, leaving behind in Bournemouth a 3 year old daughter, Eva, my grandmother and her unmarried mother.
His body was never found. RIP

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...them, or felt pressured to run away, we know not.
He joined the Titanic as a 3rd class steward.
A tragic death for a bright young man that fateful night... and aherald of so many more that decade.
2/2

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In memoriam my great-grandfather, John (Jack) Prideaux of #Bournemouth, who perished with the #Titanic 15 April 1912, aged 23.
He embarked at Southampton, leaving behind a 3 year old daughter, Eva, and her unmarried mother.
Whether he hoped to return with money to support

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My photos from Easter & Low Sunday at St Peter's Lutton Place #Edinburgh
Altar frontal
Paschal candle & apse windows
Pulpit fall with symbols of Peter
Resurrection window where Peter and Mary Magdalen meet the risen Jesus in their different ways
Alleluia!

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@GretelleMaitre Have a superb day, Gretel
Back in the late 80s I sang a couple of choral concerts in the magnificent Chapel at Sandhurst with Surrey Heath Festival Chorus, in my Bracknell days.
Stunning reredos, if I remember rightly.

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@SChadTollerLane @polly_speight I just had to smile as my screen-reader added, "reposted by Mary".
Indeed!
Christ is risen.

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The Angel of the Lord brought tidings unto Mary...

#Annunciation Window at St Michael & All Angels, Mount Dinham, #Exeter

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#OTD AD978 teenage King Edward died.
Church of St Edward, King & Martyr, #Cambridge.
Married there April 1993, visiting last June.
By coincidence I grew up near Shaftesbbury #Dorset where Edward is thought to have been buried.

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It was a great privilege to be at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in Edinburgh on Saturday for Frikki Walker’s final service as Director of RSCM Scottish Voices.