Legend
The doves who moved the church
Built where the birds said.
Stand where it happened
- What's there
- Church on a quarried hill
- Legend from
- Church-moving legend
- Tone
- Gentle
The doves chose the hilltop.
Axon notes that at Breedon 'the materials were removed by doves'. Galloway's walk guide says the church was begun at the foot of the hill, but doves carried the foundations to the top, and the founders, awed, finished it there.