During its 900th year, Carlisle Cathedral is welcoming award-winning author, priest and funnyman the Rev Fergus Butler-Gallie later this month.
Fergus’ evening lecture, on Friday June 24, will take the audience on a witty, funny and unique journey around England’s churches taking in the eccentricities, oddities and memorable characters to be discovered there.
Fergus said: “The talk I am giving is titled Strange Pilgrimage and will be an entertaining and informative trip around the strange places that are Britain’s churches.
“Churches are places of tragedy, places of joy, they are repositories of our national life, memories and stories. Through their doors have come heroes, villains, mermaids, mystiques, comics and clowns. We will be walking alongside them all, ending of course in wonderful Cumbria where we will encounter some mysteries there too.”
The Rev Canon Dr Benjamin Carter, canon warden at Carlisle Cathedral, said: “Anyone who knows Fergus’ ability to bring the spiritual wisdom out of a hot-crossed bun or the historical parallels of Archbishops of Canterbury and packets of crisps will know what a great night they have in store. For those who don’t; this is a wonderful opportunity to experience one of the wittiest, silliest, and most profound writers of our time.”
The event will take place in the Fratry at Carlisle Cathedral. Tickets include a buffet from 6.30pm, with the talk beginning at 7.30pm. Buffet and talk costs £20; 16-18 years £10; under-16s £5.
A choral evensong service will be held in the cathedral at 5.45pm.
