Written by Lauren
Rating: 5
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As a London Month of the Dead regular, I was chuffed to have an event around Christmas. The performance was fantastic and the atmosphere was perfect!
Description
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Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Walks & Tours
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Tickets from £12.00
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Sat, 22nd Oct 2022 @ 15:30 - 17:00
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15:30 - 17:00
According to legend, the English landscape – so calm and welcoming on the surface – is really the Devil’s work. Ancient lore describes how the arch fiend hurled great rocks into place, heaped up hills and carved out valleys on this bucolic canvas. Fortunately this satanic artist didn’t have complete control of his masterpiece and the appearance of churches proved to be his undoing. In his talk, author Jeremy Harte will take us on a journey from Godstone on the Isle of Wight via Minchinhampton in the Cotswolds to Rudston in the East Riding, to explore how the Devil’s attempt to destroy sacred spaces ensured their longevity in the myths built around them.
Join us in Brompton Cemetery Chapel, a model of what would undoubtedly be Lucifer’s prime target, St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, to hear tantalising tales of tempests sent to shatter churches, disappearing steeples and satanic visitations of death on their congregations. The Devil is half monster, half buffoon and his role in folklore reveals a fascinating history of this sceptred isle and its transformation of pagan sites into Christian temples.
Jeremy Harte
Jeremy Harte is a researcher into folklore and archaeology, with a particular interest in landscape legends and tales of encounters with the inhabitants of other worlds. His books include Explore Fairy Traditions, Cuckoo Pounds and Singing Barrows, and The Green Man: his latest study, Cloven Country: Legends of the Devil in England, will be out this Halloween. He is curator of Bourne Hall Museum in Surrey, where he puts things in cases and then, later on, takes them out again.
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Tickets/Times
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Talk of the Devil
The Dark Lord in the Churchyard |
15:30 - 17:00 | £12.00 |
Location
Address
Brompton Cemetery Chapel, North gate off Old Brompton Road, South gate off Fulham Road, London, SW5 9JE
Nearest Station
West Brompton (Tube)
Getting there
Organiser
A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
This year Antique Beat and A Curious Invitation will be hosting The London Month of the Dead, a series of 36 different events investigating the capital’s relationship with its deceased residents. Events will include a private view of the Museum of London’s bone archive, taxidermy workshops, macabre walking tours and private views and a programme of weekend death salons with talks on subjects ranging from public dissection and body snatching to reincarnation and funereal folklore. Each salon will feature a pair of speakers, authorities in fields such as osteology, forensic pathology and the paranormal, who will offer their own perspectives and insights on mortality in the city.
Each year the London Month of the Dead donates 20% of all ticket revenue to one of London's magnificent seven cemeteries. In 2017 all of the death salons and concerts will be hosted at the Dissenters and Anglican chapels at Kensal Green. In previous years the month's programme has centered around Brompton Cemetery but the chapel is now undergoing important restoration work, a project the London Month of the Dead is proud to have supported.
The London Month of the Dead has been curated by a Curious Invitation and Antique Beat to inform, entertain and provoke on the subject of death and London cemeteries.
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