Beating the bounds of the parish, St Clement Danes, London
Beating the bounds of the parish, St Clement Danes, City of Westminster, London -- a custom dating back to Roman times, thought to be a survival of the Terminalia, or festival of Terminus. Once a year the parish officials walk round the parish boundaries with the choristers, who beat the boundary marks with long rods.
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Picture No
12020992
Media ID
47650416
Size
4115px x 4810px
(7.6MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photograph in Peoples of All Nations, edited by J A Hammerton, Harmsworth, No.17, October 1922
Date
1922
