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  • Boston - The treasure of Boston, and its enduring symbol, is the extraordinary and outsized church of St Botolph it’s Chancel protruding into the marvelous wide and irregular market place. ‘Boston Stump’ as the locals call it, is my favourite of all buildings, and yet whenever I am in my hometown I have to force myself to look at it afresh.
    St Botolph’s is England’s fourth largest parish church, and its steeple beats all comers. To understand why such an enormous church was built for what is today a place of only modest size it to gain some insight into Boston’s important in the Middle Ages: levies paid by the town in the 13th century were only slightly less than those paid by London and were larger than those of any other English port. Boston made its fortune exporting wool to the continent and importing all manner of exotic goods, and the church-Begun in 1309 and not completed until more than two centuries later-was a visible expression of Bostonian wealth and ambition.
    It is apt that St Botolph’s, built right on the riverbank, should provide a physical link between the tidal witham and the market-place, for the church owes its grandeur both to the port ands to the market, which has been a regular feature of Boston life since 1308. And you don’t have to walk far from the corner in the town to glimpse other important remnants of Boston’s history: close to the marketplace is a cluster of buildings, which provide a snapshot of the town’s past.
    The former Quayside in Spain Lane are the remains of the 13th century refectory of the Dominican friars, 1965 to become the Blackfriars Arts Centre and theatre at the instigation of local enthusiasts.
    A little further south is the Guildhall, once the 15th century hall of the Guild of St Mary and now the town’s small but well stocked museum. Inside are the very cells in which some of the Pilgrim Fathers were imprisoned in 1607 after they were betrayed in their flight to Holland.
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