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Joy Montague - my LHI story
Location: Cornwall
Joy Montague initiated and co-ordinated the Temple Association Project. Here she talks about her part in the project.
The Temple Association Project really grew out of a Rural Action grant we had a few years back to help us look after our churchyard and turn it into a "living churchyard". That got a small group of us together and worked very well.
We’d been wanting to republish a very old book about Temple Church for quite a while, so that was our first suggestion. We’d found the book in the Cornish section of Bodmin library, and it was one of only two copies in the whole county. It was written about 1883, and the most recent edition before ours was in 1904.
It’s quite a quirky little book - we have a history here of slightly eccentric vicars, and I know our current vicar wouldn’t mind me saying that at all! In fact, he suggests that it might be something to do with the congregation being rather eccentric.
The Templars are well known as being associated with this area - a lot of people visit because of the village’s connections with them. But they’re proving quite difficult to research - a fascinating thing my husband has found is a copy of the "Templar Rule of Order" of which one of the more lighthearted rules is:
"We prohibit pointed shoes and shoelaces and forbid any brother to wear them………we forbid them to have shoes with points or laces under any circumstances. For it is manifest and well known that these abominable things belong to pagans……."
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