Well, I thought I'd got it, but it seems not, now I've researched the London places (which I don't know).
Anyway, here's my reasoning so far:
He ignores either two out of West Cath, Wabbey and Southwark (for as yet unknown reasons). He skims over Rochester and arrives at Canterbury. Then he goes to Chichester (Psalms) and, not turning right to Winch (Patron Saint = St. Swithin of Rainy Day fame!) carries on to where the Victory is moored, i.e. Portsmouth.
He continues along the south coast, past Exeter (St. Peter's, hence the Roman connection) (No Popery please
) to Truro (much newer) where Bishop Hedges is reported to have started smoking. I beg your pardon, where Bishop Benson is reported to have started the Carol Service tradition.
The long flight then fooled me, as I thought immediately of NCO ("one strangely called "new"). However, you don't go to Gloucester via Oxford from Truro (well, you could, but...) - and you have to end up at Gloss (see below), so the two cathedrals he wings his way between have to be out of Bristol, Wells, Hereford and Wuss. Ardcarp has gone for Bristol and Wells; I'd have gone for Hereford and Wuss (Wuss is now the new cathedral built on the site of the older one) - but it appears this is incorrect, though I'd suggest equally valid!
Anyway, he ends up at Gloss, where Edward II is reputed to have been murdered in a particularly unpleasant manner.
So, he sits on Gloss and is shortly bound elsewhere.
But where? What have the places he's been to in common that the places he's ignored have not?
Well, I first thought cloisters, but no, or he'd have settled at Salisbury. Then I thought Lady Chapel/Apse type of thing, but that doesn't fit either. Rose windows, anybody?
Now I'm thinking organ makes, but I really don't know enough about the southern cathedral organs nowadays.
So if anyone else wants to have a go...
Whatever, Decantor - it's a good little puzzle!!
Anyway, here's my reasoning so far:
He ignores either two out of West Cath, Wabbey and Southwark (for as yet unknown reasons). He skims over Rochester and arrives at Canterbury. Then he goes to Chichester (Psalms) and, not turning right to Winch (Patron Saint = St. Swithin of Rainy Day fame!) carries on to where the Victory is moored, i.e. Portsmouth.
He continues along the south coast, past Exeter (St. Peter's, hence the Roman connection) (No Popery please
) to Truro (much newer) where Bishop Hedges is reported to have started smoking. I beg your pardon, where Bishop Benson is reported to have started the Carol Service tradition.The long flight then fooled me, as I thought immediately of NCO ("one strangely called "new"). However, you don't go to Gloucester via Oxford from Truro (well, you could, but...) - and you have to end up at Gloss (see below), so the two cathedrals he wings his way between have to be out of Bristol, Wells, Hereford and Wuss. Ardcarp has gone for Bristol and Wells; I'd have gone for Hereford and Wuss (Wuss is now the new cathedral built on the site of the older one) - but it appears this is incorrect, though I'd suggest equally valid!
Anyway, he ends up at Gloss, where Edward II is reputed to have been murdered in a particularly unpleasant manner.
So, he sits on Gloss and is shortly bound elsewhere.
But where? What have the places he's been to in common that the places he's ignored have not?
Well, I first thought cloisters, but no, or he'd have settled at Salisbury. Then I thought Lady Chapel/Apse type of thing, but that doesn't fit either. Rose windows, anybody?
Now I'm thinking organ makes, but I really don't know enough about the southern cathedral organs nowadays.
So if anyone else wants to have a go...
Whatever, Decantor - it's a good little puzzle!!
The reference is to Eliot (T S "Murder in the Cathedral" rather than George).
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