Encyclopedia entry: Higden, Ranulf

Article: Arts: By George, it's a girl! Can we explain that?(Features)
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  September 22, 2001 ;     505 words ... ... his duties as a curate in the mediaeval St Werburg's Church in Dublin, the young Andrew ... College Dublin. Andrew has been back in St Werburg's of late, now in his role as company ... which began with two performances in St Werburg's, followed by one in Christ Church ...

Article: English cathedral finds medieval inspiration for its bottled ...
Presbyterian Record;  May 1, 2002 ;     366 words ... ... counterparts. The monks of Chester, in northern England, used to produce beer for themselves and for pilgrims to the shrine of St. Werburg, a seventh-century abbess to whom were ascribed many miracles. Now Chester Cathedral has launched Chester Pilgrim Ale ...

Article: Dreaming of old days in Devon
The Nelson Mail;  January 3, 2003 ;     652 words ... ... by older folk. They were called almshouses, but of course those days of almshouses are long gone. The village church, St Werburg's, is very old and stands on a hill close to the shore, overlooking the sea. Below the church is a long narrow lane overshadowed ...

Dictionary definition: Chester
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church;      281 words ... ... bishops of Mercia, but for most of the Middle Ages it was not a bishopric. The see was refounded in 1541 by Henry VIII , who made the church of the dissolved abbey of St Werburg the cathedral, under a new dedication to Christ and the BVM.

Article: Bride and joy.(Features)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  January 18, 2005 ;     441 words ... ... Faenol Fawr Hotel. Picture: MIKE MAINSTONE Leia Merriman, of Northwich and Sean O'Rourke, of Southampton were married at St Werburg Church, Chester. Amanda Gresley-Jones, of Prestatyn and Andy Jones, of Tremeirchion were married at Corpus Christie ...

Article: Scousers abroad; Flash back.(Features)
Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England);  May 19, 2007 ;     547 words ... ... Patrick James Farrell. When the family came over to England, they lived in Birkenhead and James and Bridget are both buried at St Werburg's church. When my grandfather married, he lost all contact with his six sisters. My mother is interested to know what ...

Article: Sacred Players: The Politics of Response in the Middle English ...
Christianity and Literature;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... The opening chapter focuses on the Chester cycle, considering ways in which the post ... the St. Paul manuscript, like the Chester cycle, illustrates a Protestant "reforming ... attested to (as the late Banns do for the Chester cycle), it does contain "several clues ...