Actor, writer and painter, Edwin Apps was a familiar face on British television in the 1950s and 60s, when he appeared regularly in comedy shows such as "WhackO", "The Harry Worth Show", "Steptoe and Son" etc., and co-wrote the classic comedy series about the Church of England, "All Gas and Gaiters."
In 1970, he went to visit a farmhouse for sale in the village of Liez in the south of the Vendée. The vendors, hoping to improve their chances of a sale, took him to see the ruined Benedictine cathedral abbey in the neighbouring village of Maillezais. Their tactic worked. It was, he says, "love at first sight" and when, in 1976 he went to live there permanently and to set up his artist's studio, the Bishops of Maillezais and their imaginary doings, became a principal theme of his painting. One result of these imaginings was a growing curiosity about the real history of the place which led him to begin "digging about in libraries". This book is the result of these excavations.
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