Great English Churches - by Lionel Wall
Webmaster Notes
Having added the keyhandler to this page I can now take a look at what Lionel's problem is with the Mobile Friendlyness of his site.
Having seen some access to this page in my logs and GSC I am not sure why there is interest. It could be Lionel himself or someone looking for his content.
Like me, Lionel is a hobby webmaster and his site is the result of his interest in churches. It represents an account of his travels and he is also a very good photographer.
I am not sure that asking for donations to port the site to a new platform is the way to go.
When I was researching my page on the Saxon Chapel of Belchamp Walter I came across this website.
In a similar manner to Maurice Boddy, Lionel's site was originally written on a now no-longer supported Software platform. He makes an appeal on his home page for donations for the continued running of his site with a view to port to a more mobile-friendly platform. I know what he means as a former I.T. Professional. I admit that I am curious about the "inexplicable glitch in Windows".
That being said, Lionel's site has some excellent content. The photos are of great quality and he has provided
a lot of background.
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Mediaeval Wall Paintings
I was curious about the spelling - but I guess my time living in Canada may have blinded me up to now.
medievalists.net say:
When it comes to choosing medieval or mediaeval, it has been commonly observed people in Great Britain were more
willing to use the ae, while Americans
preferred just using the e. Perhaps this was true, but even the British gradually shifted to medieval.
By the middle of the twentieth century it was clear that medieval would be the common spelling.
This was not an inevitable outcome, for archaeology remains far more popular than archeology.
However, it seems that the word mediaeval will not be making a comeback.
Only a handful of books published in recent years use that term.
There are a few places where the word mediaeval endures. For example, the University of Toronto has both
a Centre of Medieval Studies and a Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, so perhaps the older form will live on.
