Another St Leonards dream produced this unique pulpit, in the form of a boat's prow which would have been familiar to Jesus of Nazareth.  The night after the former church here was destroyed by a German V-1 in July 1944, the rector dreamed he saw Christ preaching in a boat on the Lake of Galilee.

 

What better design for the pulpit of the reborn church than just such a boat? 

 

It seems to have become a personal obsession in the face of some ridicule and considerable logistical difficulties, but twelve years later the pulpit was finished - fashioned by a Galilean craftsman from oak cut from the forest of Baashan.

 

 

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St Leonards Church, just off the sea front.

 

 

 

 

 

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