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Posted: Sun 30 Mar, 2008 11:49 pm
by buffaloskinner
What and where might this be? Also what is its possible link to this site via a book?
Posted: Mon 31 Mar, 2008 12:07 am
by oldleedsman
It's Adel church door knocker isn't it?
Posted: Mon 31 Mar, 2008 9:01 am
by Inquirer
But is it the one that was stolen a few years back, or is it the copy that replaced it?
Posted: Mon 31 Mar, 2008 9:14 am
by Inquirer
The Fellowship of the Ring by J R R Tolkien who lived in Leeds from 1920 to 25?
Posted: Mon 31 Mar, 2008 9:30 am
by fevlad
St John's is a beautiful church with a well preserved norman porticounusually you step down into the church the idea being that you are stepping into the river jordan.The place is a feast for the historian, the architecture lover and for the imagination.I went into the church one bitterly cold night just before christmas a few years back and it was lit by a solitary candle. The wind was howling and battering the building.I could just imagine travellers taking shelter and sleping on what would then have been a straw covered floor and slept amongst the livestock in the building.my kids went to the church primary school. Again it reminds me of christmas and the carol service and the feeling of community that had been handed down through genrrations.The most poignant experience I've had at the church was when my daughter was a little girl, her friend died of leukaemia. The church was full of her friends, childen with their lives ahead of them, and hers had been taken from her.
Posted: Mon 31 Mar, 2008 6:18 pm
by buffaloskinner
Spot on its Adel Church, what about the book though?
Posted: Mon 31 Mar, 2008 7:37 pm
by wiggy
buffaloskinner wrote: Spot on its Adel Church, what about the book though? i was force fed the hobit,at nine years old...followed close by it's big brother....i know folk love it,but i am afraid i'm not one of them.each to their own i suppose,but it's people who walk round wearing 'the one true ring' on their fingers and things like that ,that i don't get.i mean i like star wars,but i don't carry a light sabre...people might think i was odd you know!
Posted: Tue 01 Apr, 2008 8:41 pm
by buffaloskinner
Wiggy, now why would we think you were odd?
Posted: Tue 01 Apr, 2008 11:33 pm
by buffaloskinner
The infamous door
Posted: Wed 04 Jun, 2008 4:53 pm
by Tasa
buffaloskinner wrote: Spot on its Adel Church, what about the book though? Well, if the book is "Lord of the Rings" as Inquirer suggested:Adel Church Sanctuary Ring - Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien was a lecturer at Leeds University in the English Dept - While he was there, Eric Gill sculpted the Leeds University War Memorial - Eric Gill also sculpted the oak canopy in Adel Church.Nice link but only one problem - I can't see the connection with Secret Leeds...