St Mary's Tretire is another tiny gem in the Garway Hill area between Hereford and Ross, a nove 19th century rebuild of a medaeval predecessors. The far from populous parish even boasts a second church at Michaelchurch, even more remote - which was a good thing as when I took the Candlemas service there recently on a superb early spring day with an equally super congregation, the safe lock failed and the churchwarden had to shoot off at high speed to fetch the silver from the other church. I was naughtily reminded of the comment of a Dean of Ely, when the Dioceses Commission were contemplating merging that diocese with Peterborough, that a second cathedral would be very useful for spares ...

St Dubricius brought the Gospel to these parts even before the Saxons, and some earlier Roman folk of the faith may have preceded even him. The light still shines.