CHRISTIANS celebrated Easter Sunday by holding a ‘well service’ at the historic St Margaret's Church, in Binsey, Oxford.
Curate Dr Martin Henig, left, sprinkled water from the church’s well on some 16 parishioners to mark the resurrection of Jesus.
Dr Henig said: “We were celebrating Easter and all the new life we get in spring, and that life comes from water,” adding that it also reminded Christians of their baptism vows.
Dr Henig said: “It’s reminding them of new birth and, as it were, being born again.”
After the well service, the congregation sang hymns and took part in a traditional Easter service inside the church.
Dr Henig said: “Everyone seemed enormously happy and it was a lovely way of bringing people together.”
Water from the well at the Grade I listed church was used by St Frideswide, the patron saint of Oxford, to heal the sick.
The well became a pilgrimage site in medieval times and was the inspiration for the ‘treacle well’ in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.
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