The bells ring for Cardinal Wolsey

On Friday, I was in St. Lawrence’s Church, now a cafe, in the town centre when the meeting I was at was punctuated by the ringing of bells just above the front door. We assumed at the time that this was practice for the for the forthcoming coronation. However, as this article shows, it was to mark the approximate 550th birthday of Thomas Wolsey, who was born a short walk away in St. Peter’s Street, where his statue now sits. There will even be a brief film showing repeatedly in the former Edinburgh Woollen Mill which, like the church and his birthplace, may well have been on the site of Wolsey College, had he not fallen.