Hope Bagot


Hope Bagot church, where the tower continues to punish guilty millstones*
Hope Bagot church, where the tower continues to punish guilty millstones

Accidents, they say, do happen. These days you sue the manufacturer or the government or a completely innocent bystander, but what did people do before these enlightened times?

The little church at Hope Bagot in Herefordshire retains the traces of an answer - and a fascinating insight into medieval thought processes.