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ENJOY FUN BINGO IN PILTON CHURCH HALL EVERY MONTH

Bingo

Come and play Fun Bingo every first Friday of the month. The next game is Friday 5th March at 7.30pm.


NEXT FESTIVAL MEETING

Images of Pilton Festival

The next Festival Meeting is on Thursday March 11th at 7.30pm in The Reform Inn. All are welcome to find out more.

Festival Pageant

The Festival Pageant is a dramatic representation of how the church incorporated The Green Manancient beliefs into Christian ideology. The story of how The Green Man ultimately meets The Prior has always been at the core of our annual Festival.

The Green Man (right) is an ancient Pagan symbol of nature and fertility frequently depicted in carvings in old churches as a face sprouting foliage. A splendid green man carving can be seen on the screen between the Chancel and the Raleigh Chapel in the ancient Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin in Pilton.

The Prior of the Benedictine Priory of Pilton lived at The Bull House below the Church until the Reformation.

The Ritual enacted at the Pilton Festival is believed to represent the initial antagonism of the two characters, Prior and Green Man, represented by the red and green masks (below), and the subsequent inclusion of the pagan figure within the Church.

Festival Pageant

Under the direction of Hamish Patrick, the Festival Pageant takes place on the lawn in front of Pilton House at 12 noon and then again at 3pm on Green Man Day.

Don't miss it!

 

 

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