Saturday 17 May 2025, 2.30pm Orleton Church
Prof. Keith Ray will speak about ‘The Early Church in Herefordshire: Twenty Five Years On.’
In the year 2000, the Leominster History Study Group organised a Conference at The Priory with half a dozen invited speakers including Professors John Blair (Oxford University) and John Harper (Bangor University). The title of the Conference was ‘The Early Church in Herefordshire’ and the papers covered documentary history, liturgy, music, and archaeology. Keith Ray, then Herefordshire’s County Archaeologist, spoke about the material evidence for the successive Roman, British and Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastical establishments. This talk will reprise the subject (documentary and material evidence for the ‘Early Church’ in the county) with particular reference to new finds and fresh insights.
St. George’s Church, Orleton SY8 4HU
