Parish church of St Margaret of Antioch, Edgware
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Parish church of St Margaret of Antioch, Edgware
Image: © Christopher Hilton Taken: 19 Apr 2017
St Margaret of Antioch, in legend, was swallowed by a dragon before bursting out again (presumably with divine intervention). Appropriately enough, she is the patron saint of childbirth. A particular genre of medieval manuscript is the birthing girdle, a long scroll bearing an account of the saint's life which a pregnant woman would wear around her belly in the hope that it would bring good fortune in the risky process of childbirth before modern analgesics or antisepsis.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.611235
Longitude
-0.278775