NEW LOGO!

We chose a dragon as East Anglia has many dragon tales – tales of valour and might, of battle and trickery, of flight and fire. Our dragon is based upon the stone carving over the entrance to St Andrews Church at Fingringhoe, and the very similar carving over the entrance to St Osyth’s Priory.
 
There are lots more dragons in East Anglian folklore - The crocodile’s story at Wormingford, the Henfield dragon, the serpent at Great Bentley, The glass knight at Saffron Walden, the Bures dragon, the Little Cornard dragons and the Ludham Dragon, The Norwich Dragon Hall and Dragon, (known affectionately as ‘Snap’) to name a few.
 
Our dragon was drawn by Matthew Lloyd-Winder, ink on paper – Thank you to all the Lloyd Winder family for bringing our logo to life! You can find Matthew’s work in stained glass here - http://www.winderlite.com/
 
‘It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.’
'Never laugh at live dragons..'
J. R. R. TOLKIEN – the Hobbit
 
‘And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.’
URSULA K. LE GUIN - The Farthest Shore
 
'How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.'
RAINER MARIA RILKE - Letters to a Young Poet