This talk is about the ancient custom of Beating the Bounds which has seen many revivals in the present, with all its eccentric accompaniments. Mark Lewis will give a detailed account and look at the ways in which it has functioned as a blessing, a purification and a means of confirming parochial boundaries.

Mark is a freelance artist, designer-silversmith and semi-retired university lecturer. He is also a folklorist and has been a member of the Folklore Society since 1987, speaking regularly at their conferences around the UK. He has a particular interest in unusual local customs and rituals and in 2013 he published a book on the folklore and popular customs of the church

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