Picture No | 12020993 |
Date | 1922 |
Description | Beating the bounds of the parish, St Clement Danes, London |
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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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Source | Photograph in Peoples of All Nations, edited by J A Hammerton, Harmsworth, No.17, October 1922 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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