Share this page!

Tom Holland Profile picture
Twitter logo
6 Aug, 4 tweets, 1 min read
“I went to Coventry Cathedral not too long after it was rebuilt and I remember the rising from the destruction atmosphere of it. We felt somehow proud that it had not been cancelled as a living spiritual Cathedral.”

My mother emails me about my #MiddleEngland thread…
Thanks to all who recommended this. Settling down to watch it now!
Wonderful to have watched this film after a visit to Coventry Cathedral. What a charming man Sir Basil Spence seems to have been. And what a profound metaphor for Christianity’s relationship to its history he fashioned with his design.
Oh goodness.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Tom Holland

Tom Holland Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @holland_tom

Tom Holland Profile picture
8 Aug
The idiosyncracies of the early Olympic Games are an unfailing source of fascination.
More on that here...
No.
Read 4 tweets
Tom Holland Profile picture
2 Aug
Tonight’s performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is going ahead, but has been reduced to 20 overs
Yeeeeeees….
The director very much not downcast
Read 8 tweets
Tom Holland Profile picture
2 Aug
We start our tour of #MiddleEngland in Oxford, where tonight in the garden in Christ Church that helped inspire Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland my daughter’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is being staged. A sellout (so proud!), but there are tickets on the door…
Also an inspiration to Lewis Carroll was this holy well in Binsey, which in the Middle Ages was famed for the miraculous properties of its ‘treacle’ - its ‘healing fluid’.

Hence the Treacle Well in Alice… Image
The well appeared thanks to the prayers of Frideswide, the patron saint of Oxford. The pagan ruler of Leicester tried to make off with her; she struck him blind; being kind, she then healed him. Still he came after her: so she fled to the remote island of ‘Betona,’ aka Binsey.
Read 97 tweets
Tom Holland Profile picture
1 Aug
On 23 August, I will be embarking on an elite #CricketWalk in aid of my benefit: 50 miles in 24 hours, from the site of the first ever recorded cricket match to Lord's.

We have raised £50,000 so far for charity. I dream of reaching a century.

THANK YOU! givergy.uk/tomholland/?co…
If you could find it in your heart to donate, you will be helping the homeless here in the UK, & Yazidi refugees in Iraq.

All donations very, very gratefully received.

(And huge thanks to all who have already given!) #CricketWalk #THBY2021 givergy.uk/tomholland/?co…
Huge thanks also to everyone who contributed to the utterly shameless video above - and especially to everyone at Lioncat Films for their time, enthusiasm & incredible expertise.
lioncatfilms.com
Read 4 tweets
Tom Holland Profile picture
30 Jul
YES, YES, YES!!!!!!!!!!!

So the law - unlike the Department of Transport - is not an ass.

This is the most wonderful news!

Congratulations to everyone involved in bringing this case to court, and winning a verdict that was richly, richly merited. #StonehengeTunnel
Mr Justice Holgate "agreed that, in breach of rules in the National Policy Statement for National Networks (NPSNN) and the Planning Act (PA 2008), the Transport Secretary had not properly assessed the risk of harm to each heritage asset within the World Heritage Site."
"The judge found that he did not have the evidence to conclude that the project would cause “less than substantial harm” to the heritage assets within the WHS, which he deemed fatal to the lawfulness of the decision to grant development consent."
Read 5 tweets
Tom Holland Profile picture
25 Jul
To Margate!
Well, I enjoyed my FOUR & A HALF HOUR drive to Margate (which I have never visited, & am very excited finally to be in!)
Read 4 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @holland_tom has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @holland_tom!

Read all threads by @holland_tom

:(