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Palm Sunday 2020: St Mary le Tower

            St Mary le Tower, Ipswich, Suffolk

It was Palm Sunday, April 5th 2020, but England was at the end of its first full week of lockdown because of the Coronavirus pandemic, and all the churches were closed. At this time we were strongly discouraged from leaving our homes for any non-essential reason. I decided to mark Palm Sunday with a short pilgrimage of my own, visiting all twelve of Ipswich's town centre medieval churches, as well as a couple of others along the way. It was a bright, cold early spring morning, and as I set out there was hardly anyone to be seen, ghost streets of a ghost town.

My journey took me around the twelve medieval churches in this order: St Helen, St Margaret, St Mary le Tower, St Lawrence, St Stephen, St Mary Elms, St Matthew, St Nicholas, St Peter, St Mary at Stoke, St Mary at Quay and St Clement, the last being the nearest church to my house. The longer the morning went on the more people were about, until by the time I got to Stoke Bridge there was quite a crowd, all socially distancing of course, perhaps because of the slow police cars that occasionally passed, their serious occupants gazing out at us. The entire pilgrimage took about 90 minutes, which I fear was longer than the government's recommended limit, but I was glad I had done it.

Taken on: April 5, 2020

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