The New Murrey and Blue blog

If you go to this link https://tinyurl.com/5t4nyjfb, from which the above photograph is taken, you’ll learn of the following:

“….The 2025 Season of monthly history talks and guided tours of St Matthew’s Church at Coldridge [Devon] re-start on Thursday, February 27….

“….Two tours will be held on the day, bookable in advance, starting at 11am and 2pm….

“….Each will start with a short talk followed by a guided tour led to illustrate the history, curiosities and clues concerning the mystery of Edward V and the Princes in the Tower contained within St Matthew’s Coldridge….”

You can learn far more at the link.

Philippa Langley’s Missing Princes Project has been unearthing about Coldridge and its link to Edward V, Richard III’s nephew and one of the two nephews he is always accused of murdering in the Tower. Well , Ricardians have never believed Richard to have been guilty of this awful crime, and the discoveries at Coldridge have strengthened this belief. It seems that the older boy, who would have been crowned Edward V but for the discovery of his illegitimacy, not only survived but lived safely in the depths of Devon. So these talks/tours should be very interesting indeed.

You can also read more about the now-famous Yorkist window in the church, and its Yorkist symbols, here https://sparkypus.com/2020/12/26/a-portrait-of-edward-v-and-perhaps-even-a-resting-place-st-matthews-church-coldridge/comment-page-1/.

Have at the talks and tours, ladies and gentlemen!