The Media Archive for Central England is the public screen archive for the East and West Midlands. An independent charity and company based at the University of Lincoln, MACE acquires, catalogues, preserves and makes widely available moving image materials that inform our understanding of the diverse cultures and histories of communities between the Lincolnshire coast and the Welsh border.
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Wyck Rissington Maze
Is this the end of the line for a maze that has become one of the quirkiest features of the Cotswolds?
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Overview
At Wyck Rissington in Gloucestershire Canon Harry Cheales leads his parishioners around the maze he built next to the rectory in an annual tradition that has become part of village folklore. The idea of the maze came to him in a dream but it is the metaphor of the maze as the paths we take through life that means most to him. With Cheales taking retirement his beloved maze is now under threat, which is a shame as this true English folly is something to be treasured.
The maze did indeed disappear on the departure of Harry Cheales from St Laurence Church in Wyck Rissington. He died in 1984 and the memory of his famous maze lives on in a mosaic inside the church.
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