All Saints, Southsea

The smaller church we'll be serving in NW Wales is All Saints' congregation in Southsea. (We don't think there's a "sea" anywhere nearby, however.) This building, dating from the 1920s, was originally the parish hall. But, it was consecrated for worship when the church building was deemed structurally unsafe in the 1980s.

Sabbatical church: St. Mary's in Brymbo

With a little digging (thanks, Google) we found some photos of St. Mary's church in Brymbo. There's a capstone dated 1872; and the place has an interesting architecture. This is one of the two Anglican churches we'll be serving during the first month of our sabbatical - the other being the smaller All Saints in Southsea. Fr. Carter has "warned us" that the Welsh definitely like to sing their hymns with gusto.

Introduction

This blog is intended as an ongoing online postcard from our sabbatical. We'll be in Wales, England and France and will update this blog roughly once a week starting in mid June. We'll post pictures and link to interesting sites. We may even post short audio and video clips. The purpose of our sabbatical is to trace our Celtic roots, both in terms tracking down our family origins and also spiritually as we learn about and walk in the footsteps of the great Welsh and Anglo-Saxon saints.