The anchoress of St Aldhelm’s Head
Nick Churchill describes a medieval mystery and how the story has inspired an artist working 750 years later
Published in January ’22
The chapel on St Aldhelm’s Head
WHO was the unknown woman buried close to the 12th-century chapel at St Aldhelm’s Head, laid to rest in a shallow grave lined with stones beneath a wooden board and sealed under a slab of Purbeck marble carved with an ornamental cross? The mystery has gripped the imagination of Purbeck artist Brian Graham for more than thirty years …
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