What and Where 32

buffaloskinner · Post by **buffaloskinner** » Sun 30 Mar, 2008 11:49 pm

What and where might this be? Also what is its possible link to this site via a book?

oldleedsman · Post by **oldleedsman** » Mon 31 Mar, 2008 12:07 am

It's Adel church door knocker isn't it?

Inquirer · Post by **Inquirer** » Mon 31 Mar, 2008 9:01 am

But is it the one that was stolen a few years back, or is it the copy that replaced it?

Inquirer · Post by **Inquirer** » Mon 31 Mar, 2008 9:14 am

The Fellowship of the Ring by J R R Tolkien who lived in Leeds from 1920 to 25?

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Mon 31 Mar, 2008 9:30 am

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.

buffaloskinner · Post by **buffaloskinner** » Mon 31 Mar, 2008 6:18 pm

Spot on its Adel Church, what about the book though?

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Mon 31 Mar, 2008 7:37 pm

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!

buffaloskinner · Post by **buffaloskinner** » Tue 01 Apr, 2008 8:41 pm

Wiggy, now why would we think you were odd?

buffaloskinner · Post by **buffaloskinner** » Tue 01 Apr, 2008 11:33 pm

The infamous door

Tasa · Post by **Tasa** » Wed 04 Jun, 2008 4:53 pm

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...