St Botolph's Church is an Anglican place of worship in the village of
Quarrington, part of the civil parish of Sleaford in Lincolnshire,
England. By the time Domesday Book was compiled in 1086, a church in
Quarrington was part of Ramsey Abbey's fee, and around 1165 it was
granted to Haverholme Priory. The right to present the rector was
claimed by the Abbey in the 13th century, by the Bishop of Lincoln in
the early 16th century, and by Robert Carre and his descendants after
Carre acquired a manor at Quarrington. The oldest parts of the current
building date to the 13th century, although substantial rebuilding took
place over the following century. Renovations followed and the local
architect Charles Kirk the Younger carried out restoration work in 1862
and 1863, when he added a chancel in his parents' memory. The church
consists of a tower and spire with a nave and north aisle spanning
eastwards to the chancel. With capacity for 124 people, the church
serves the ecclesiastic parish of Quarrington with Old Sleaford.
Recognised for its age and tracery, the church has been designated a
grade II* listed building.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Botolph%27s_Church,_Quarrington>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1493:
Pope Alexander VI issued the papal bull Dudum siquidem, the
last of the Bulls of Donation, marking the beginning of the Spanish
colonization of the Americas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudum_siquidem>
1580:
The Golden Hind (replica pictured) sailed into Plymouth,
England, as explorer Francis Drake completed his circumnavigation of the
globe.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Hind>
1917:
World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood, part of the Battle of
Passchendaele, began near Ypres, Belgium.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Polygon_Wood>
1942:
The Holocaust: Nazi official August Frank issued a memorandum
setting out how the belongings of murdered Jews were to be disposed of.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Frank>
2010:
Scottish aid worker Linda Norgrove and three Afghan colleagues
were kidnapped by members of the Taliban in the Kunar Province of
eastern Afghanistan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Linda_Norgrove>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pie in the sky:
A fanciful notion; an unrealistic or ludicrous concept; the illusory
promise of a desired outcome that is unlikely to happen.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pie_in_the_sky>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the
unheard, unspoken Word is unspoken, unheard; Still is the unspoken word,
the Word unheard, The Word without a word, the Word within The world and
for the world; And the light shone in darkness and Against the Word the
unstilled world still whirled About the centre of the silent Word.
O my people, what have I done unto thee. Where shall the word
be found, where will the word Resound? Not here, there is not enough
silence
--T. S. Eliot
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot>