Long (45-70 mins)
New Testament
Anglican
George Herbert and Nicholas Ferrar┃Looking Through the Cloister Windows | Chester Cathedral
Theologian
Loveday Alexander
Duration
46.59
Uploaded to YouTube
10 March 2021
Added to Database
18 October 2025
YouTube description
Former Canon-Theologian Loveday Alexander introduces two seventeenth-century saints, Nicholas Ferrar and George Herbert, part of a group of “Caroline Divines” whose portraits appear in the South-East corner of the Cloisters. Two friends, one a “merchant adventurer" who founded the Little Gidding community, the other a Cambridge Orator who became a country parson and wrote one of the most famous and influential books of religious poetry in English. Both captured by a very English vision of holiness which is still relevant today.
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