# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Church Crawling with Rachel Morley
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 10 Sep, 2026 at 07:00 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: Join Building Conservator and church 'rescuer' Rachel Morley on a journey around England's churches.

The poet John Betjeman coined the phrase ‘church crawling’ to describe his days out visiting churches. In the spirit of Betjeman, Rachel Morley’s book captures the magical experience of poking around a dusty village church, only to have it transform – through her expert eyes – into a portal to the past, one that brings England’s people and history to life in the most colourful, moving and unexpected ways.

Through their wall-paintings and monuments, their graffiti and plaques, their jumble of furniture and curios, Morley shows these buildings to be the expression of centuries of communal memory and folk culture – time capsules of connection to ancient and medieval ways of thinking, to revolutions and wars, to lives both glorious and humble. Along our journey we meet the Lincolnshire hermit who squeezed a devil from a man with his belt, the lovers struck by lightning before they could get married and the rope-sliding steeplejack who flew from a spire – before falling to his death. We discover the folk cure, ‘poor man’s aspirin’, and how it explains the gashes in church walls, we follow Victor Frankenstein into a charnel house to collect parts for his monster, and we learn how Thomas Hardy’s heart got eaten by a cat.

Too many of England’s fifteen thousand parish churches are now neglected and crumbling. Church Crawling helps us to see them for what they really are: places that thrum with the drama of life, and an incomparable treasure trove that offers as close an encounter with our past as it is possible to get. 

Rachel Morley is a building conservator and Director of the Friends of Friendless Churches, which rescues, repairs and re-opens neglected old churches; under her direction the charity has saved twenty-seven of them. She has served as a judge for the John Betjeman Award for Church Conservation and Repair, and as Chair and Trustee of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

A joint event for Rossiter Books and The Friends of St Mary's Ross on Wye.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/monmouth/church-crawling-with-rachel-morley/200030250737007
- **Event Categories**: art, performances, theatre, literary-art, entertainment, nonprofit, charities, fine-arts
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 14

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Monmouth
- **state**: WA
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: St Mary’s Church, Ross-on-Wye
- **lat**: 51.913377981273
- **long**: -2.5858065199906
- **full address**: St Mary’s Church, Ross-on-Wye, Church Street, Ross on Wye.,Ross On Wye, Monmouth, United Kingdom

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Church Crawling with Rachel Morley being held?
  - **A:** Church Crawling with Rachel Morley takes place on Thu, 10 Sep, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 10 Sep, 2026 at 07:00 pm at St Mary s Church, Ross-on-Wye, Church Street, Ross on Wye.,Ross On Wye, Monmouth, United Kingdom.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Church Crawling with Rachel Morley?
  - **A:** Church Crawling with Rachel Morley is organized by Rossiter Books.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Church Crawling with Rachel Morley is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Monmouth, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Church Crawling with Rachel Morley sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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