Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 17 minutes ago

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“How long was the peril, how breathless the day,
In topaz and beryl, the sun dies away,
His rays lying static at quarter to six
On polychromatical lacing of bricks.
Good Lord, as the angelus floats down the road
Byzantine St Barnabas, be Thine Abode.”

From ‘St Barnabas Oxford’ by Sir John Betjeman
Music: "The Old Tale" by Magdalena: premiumbeat.com/artist/magdalena
Video shared with kind permission of St. Barnabas, for which I am grateful. sbarnabas.org.uk
Filmed on Mavic 3, produced by Hedley Thorne: HedleyThorne.com