Author(s): Mike Harding

History

"Miracles & Marvels" collects together from our churches and chapels the extraordinary array of mythical creatures, magical characters and legendary events. Here are mermaids, dragons, wyverns, unicorns, the little woodland creatures called wodwos, as well as miraculous events like The Legend of the True Cross, Jonah and the Whale and The Three Hares. There are battling dragons (from Durham Cathedral) and a cheerful little dragon (in Wirksworth, Derbyshire); the wyverns - photographed in Ripon and Canterbury Cathedrals - were fire-breathing creatures with he head of a dragon, the body of a snake, and both legs and wings.Such a magnificent gallery of mythical creatures have all been found by Mike Harding - and superbly photographed - within our own ancient Christian churches, a remarkable insight into the richness and strangeness of our cultural heritage.