wodewose.co.uk - formerly Sylly Suffolk: The medieval image in East Anglia

The site known as Sylly Suffolk began in 1998 as a spin-off from the work I was doing as webmaster for the Ipswich Evening Star and East Anglian Daily Times. Though active work on the site lasted barely more than three years, it remained online until summer 2006, when it ceased to be hosted by the publishers who were by now my former employers. At this point the registration was taken over by someone interested only in advertising and, presumably, selling the site back to me. Hence wodewose.co.uk

Since Sylly Suffolk was well overdue for an overhaul anyway, I am not unhappy to start again, with a somewhat different focus.

Things have moved on since 1998. I now have more knowledge, more experience and much better photographic equipment. You almost certainly have a faster, more robust internet connection. And there no longer seems any point in putting up pages about individual Suffolk churches, since the territory has been so well covered by Simon Knott of Simon's Suffolk Churches.

This site, then, will celebrate the medieval image thematically, rather than church-by-church, and with an emphasis on showing the images themselves.

As it develops, I intend to produce sections covering religious themes: saints, sacraments, sins and virtues, the holy trinity, the day of judgement, and the dead; the common folk of medieval East Anglia; and creatures, both real and mythical. To do this I will need to revisit many churches I covered in Sylly Suffolk, as well as venturing beyond my home county into Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and perhaps Essex. As I go, I am confident wodewose.co.uk will develop into a better site than Sylly Suffolk - and I hope it will soon become at least as popular.