Miraculous Beam, Retro Choir – Christchurch Priory (c.1920s RPPC)

Description

Miraculous Beam, Retro Choir – Christchurch Priory (c.1920s RPPC)

📸 Item: Real Photo Postcard (RPPC)
🏛 Subject: The “Miraculous Beam” in the Retro Choir, Christchurch Priory
🔢 Card No.: 1546
🏷 Publisher: “Sunshine” Series – E.A. Sweetman & Son, Tunbridge Wells
🌍 Location: Christchurch, Dorset
📄 Back: Printed in Sweden, divided back
🖨 Type: Vintage sepia RPPC

Condition:
Lovely sepia tone and sharp architectural detail. Light edge/corner wear and a gentle natural curl (very common for priory cards of this era) — easily flattened by storing in an album or under books.

Description:
Classic interior view of Christchurch Priory’s legendary Miraculous Beam — the medieval wooden beam that supposedly refused to be moved during construction until workmen accepted divine instructions and put it exactly where it sits today. A brilliant, atmospheric early postcard of one of the strangest stories in Dorset church history.