Eye - 19 September 2025

Eye appreciates the new life breathed into an old gate, embraces imperfection, and receives a timeless offering on Quaker archetypes

by Elinor Smallman 19th September 2025

Resurrection

Roger Seal, of Church Stretton Meeting, reached out to share the new life that’s been breathed into the remnants of an old gate.

‘For five hundred years this stood, within a sturdy upright supporting a village lychgate, shielding villagers in their coffins on the last stage of their journey to burial and the living on their way to each funeral.