Feels like England

While in London the other weekend we popped into Southwark Cathedral, I've walked past this building a hundred times but had never been in! It was an impressive building, and while we were walking around the choir were practising, delightful! You can understand why religious types among us get all warm and fuzzy in these buildings, after all, they were designed (by people) to invoke exactly that feeling. There were quite a few famous tombs and memorials inside the building (and a couple outside) here are a few,

• John Gower has a tomb inside the building, he was a poet and mates with Chaucer!
• William Shakespeare - not buried here but spent time in the building, there's a memorial
• John Harvard - founder of Harvard University, again, spent time here but no tomb
• Charles Dickens - some of his stories are based around Southwark, he used to live there.
• Mahomet Weyonomon - an American Indian chief (Mohegans) who came to London in 1735 to petition the king, unfortunately he died of smallpox before he could do that but his tomb is in the grounds.

Here's the bell tower with flag flying and a blue sky (for a change!) the bells are particularly impressive and echo around the whole area on Sunday morning, feels like England!