2020
TL4558 : St G.A.P. 1817
taken 6 years ago, near to Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
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St G.A.P. 1817
A stone marking a parish boundary in the wall of Christ's College, facing Milton's Walk along Christ's Pieces. The abbreviation stands for Great St Andrew's Parish, whose parish church stands opposite the main gate of Christ's.
Such markers were (and in places still are) visited in the annual Rogation walks at the beginning of summer, where prayers were offered for the coming harvest and parishioners familiarised with the exact location of the parish boundaries in the days before modern digital mapping.
Civil parishes no longer exist within the City of Cambridge (as in most urban areas in England) but their boundaries may still apply to ecclesiastical (quoad sacra) parishes.
Such markers were (and in places still are) visited in the annual Rogation walks at the beginning of summer, where prayers were offered for the coming harvest and parishioners familiarised with the exact location of the parish boundaries in the days before modern digital mapping.
Civil parishes no longer exist within the City of Cambridge (as in most urban areas in England) but their boundaries may still apply to ecclesiastical (quoad sacra) parishes.
