The Church Kneeler Archive

The Church Kneeler Archive was conceived on a visit to Breage Church in 2021. An offshoot of the larger work of The Folk Archive it is a place to record and preserve kneelers for the future. They so often record fascinating pieces of local folklore, place names or strange occurrences associated with the villages they inhabit. Sometimes they have one theme - Pershore Abbey has an incredible selection of allotment themed kneelers and sometimes they have multiple - St Buryan is a feast of Cornish Legends, Saints and even stones circles (Christianised of course!) 

What they all have in common though is that they give a sense of community, of place and, probably most importantly, of the people that live in the villages and towns of Britain.