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Not of stone (poem)

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A poem inspired by the Anglo-Saxon church of St Andrew at Greensted in Essex, parts of which are estimated to be over a thousand years old; it is possible that the site has been a place of Christian worship for 1,300 years. St Andrew's is the oldest wooden church in the world, and the oldest wooden building in Europe. The fifty one logs that form the walls of the Anglo-Saxon part of the church are of oak, and to touch them is to be transported back to the forests where they one stood, and to the people who cut, shaped and used them for their place of worship. This poem was originally posted at http://megalithicpoems.blogspot.com/2009/03/not-of-stone.html

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Date Created

12/03/2009

Date

2009

Temporal Coverage

2000-2010

Creator

Littlestone

Source

Blog 'Megalithic Poems', http://megalithicpoems.blogspot.com/; contributor's own resource

Language

English

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