Trinity Church

Our tour to Stratford had made a stop at Oxford earlier and then taken us through the Shakespeare birth home. It was midday and of course, everyone was hungry. We were turned loose for 45 while minutes on Henley Street, outside the Shakespeare home, for a pleasant lunch and for some souvenir shopping. That is what most of the tour members thought. Having been told that there was no time on the itinerary for a visit to Trinity Church, we walked into a restaurant, ordered paninis to go, and ate lunch at a brisk walk.

The effort certainly paid off. The sense of pilgrimage could not have been completed without seeing the famed injunction not to 'digg the dust encloased heare.' With the walk, we had time to see the ancient churchyard, see the gravesite right front in the chancel, view the baptism and burial records on site, and look at the renovation underway at the old church. The pilgrimage was complete.