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Spain is often a popular option for expats looking to move within Europe. With easy access to the continent, warm weather, sandy beaches, a diverse cultural heritage and the widespread use of English as a second language in tourist hotspots, it's no wonder so many people choose to relocate there. In fact, according to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, when records were taken in July 2015, there were 308,821 UK expats living in Spain, and 39,825 US expats.
If you are considering moving to Spain, here are 10 things you might want to know about the country's healthcare system before you arrive.
1. National healthcare service
Free public healthcare in Spain is available on the national healthcare service, or 'el Sistema Nacional de Salud' (SNS). The system is funded in part by social security payments, which are deducted from employees' salaries, and in part by the government. The SNS means that patients do not have to pay upfront costs for healthcare (apart from paying part of the fee for a prescription).
This service is available to anyone who is registered to work in Spain and who makes national insurance contributions. Retired expats, overseas students and the unemployed should also able to access public healthcare if they have been granted temporary or permanent residency.
Expats who are only staying in the country for a short time, could apply for a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) which provides temporary access to certain types of healthcare. This is not a long-term solution and it does not replace travel insurance, or cover private healthcare costs. The card is only available to EU, EEA and Swiss citizens. It covers medical treatment expats may need during their visit if they're ill or have an accident. It also covers treatment for long-term (chronic) conditions and existing illnesses, and routine maternity care. The card is free to apply for and is valid for up to five years.
2. Visas and permits
Expats from the EU do not need a visa or work permit to live or work in Spain, so they can access public healthcare without restriction. It is not certain how this would change if a member state withdraws from the EU, but it is possible that expats might need to apply for a Blue Card (an EU-wide work permit that allows highly skilled non-EU citizens to work in Spain). Expats from non-EU countries like the US need to apply for a residence visa or work permit to live or work in Spain. To do so, they usually have to provide proof of adequate private health insurance and may also need to supply a medical certificate.
3. Private healthcare
Expats who are not eligible for public healthcare, or those who do not want to rely solely on the public system, can opt for private health insurance. Many overseas visitors prefer this, as waiting times in private facilities are usually shorter than in public facilities. For expats who cannot speak Spanish, private healthcare can often mean that they are able to request an English-speaking doctor. For expats from the US, proof of private health insurance is a requirement for a residence visa.
4. State insurance scheme
For those who are not eligible for state-funded healthcare, but have been registered on the census at a local town hall for a year, there is a state insurance scheme ('convenio especial') that they can apply for. The scheme offers patients access to public healthcare for a basic monthly fee. It was launched in 2013, and is administered by each region's authorities. The scheme is currently available in Canarias, Castile and León, Galicia, Madrid, Murcia, Valencia and Andalucía.
5. Pharmacies and medication
Pharmacies are common in Spain and can be found everywhere from small rural villages to large cities like Barcelona and Madrid. They are marked with a green cross sign outside. Spain's prescription service is fairly relaxed, so many medications that usually require a prescription are available over the counter, such as antibiotics and inhalers. Patients only pay a percentage of the cost of their prescription – if they earn less than EUR 18,000 per year, they pay 40 percent of the prescription cost; if they earn more than EUR 100,000, they pay 60 percent.
6. General doctors and specialists
It's possible for expats to visit a general practitioner (GP) - doctor - or go to a health center to receive primary care, although they will generally have to register with a doctor in advance. Patients usually book an appointment in advance, but some practices see patients on a "first come, first serve" basis. Most health centers have about six doctors available. It's not guaranteed that patients will be treated by the same doctor each time; however, patients can request this – especially if they are receiving ongoing treatment. They can also request a referral from their doctor if they want to see a specialist.
7. Going to hospital
Patients generally need a doctor's referral to be admitted to hospital, except in an emergency. Depending on their health cover, they can either go to a public or a private hospital (both of which are widely available in Spain). Showing a social security card or proof of private health insurance will ensure that no unexpected charges are encountered for hospital treatment. In larger hospitals and in cities, doctors may speak English, though nurses and other hospital staff might not. Some hospitals have translators available to help, so it might be worth asking your local hospital before you arrive.
8. Standard of care
The standard of care in Spain's medical facilities (both public and private) is generally good. The healthcare system is easy to understand and highly accessible for expats from EU and non-EU countries. Some patients find that private facilities have shorter waiting times, more reliable services and a better quality of patient care than hospitals in the public sector.
9. Health risks
Except for routine vaccinations for travelers (influenza, chickenpox, polio, MMR, DPT and hepatitis B), there are no specific vaccinations required to enter Spain. The main risks for expats are sunburn, sunstroke and dehydration due to the warm climate.
10. Emergencies
In the case of a serious medical emergency, the number for an ambulance is 112 (calls to this number are free of charge). For expats with private healthcare insurance, private hospitals often have ambulances available, and these can be faster and more efficient than the public services. Most hospitals in Spain have accident and emergency (A&E) departments.
Free public healthcare is available to anyone who works and pays national insurance contributions in Spain. Though public healthcare is of a high standard, some expats still decide to invest in private healthcare as it is often considered faster, more reliable and of a better quality. Private healthcare is also a popular option with expats who don't speak Spanish and who are living away from the main tourist areas, as private services can sometimes allow them to request an English-speaking doctor.
Disclaimer: The information included in this article is provided for information purposes only and is not intended to constitute professional advice or replace consultation with a qualified medical practitioner. All information contained herein is subject to change.
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Govt relaxes policy on FDI in multi-branded retail trade
Policy Update / Aug 02, 2013
The Union government on August 1 approved the amendments or relaxation of the foreign direct investment (FDI) policy on multi-brand retail trading (MBRT), by easing main contentious riders on such money. These three riders, added as conditions to last year's decision to open FDI in this segment, were on a mandatory 30 per cent sourcing from small domestic industries, 50 per cent of the investment to be in back-end infrastructure and outlets to be opened only in cities with population of more than a million.
On the 30 per cent sourcing, the government expanded the definition of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME). This facilitates to include companies with a total investment of up to $2 million eligible for such sourcing of 'manufactured and processed' products.
At least 50 per cent of total FDI brought in the first tranche of $100 million, shall be invested in backend infrastructure` within three years, where `back-end infrastructure` will include capital expenditure on all activities, excluding that on front-end units. For instance, back-end infrastructure will include investment made towards processing, manufacturing, distribution, design improvement, quality control, packaging, logistics, storage, ware-house, agriculture market produce infrastructure etc. Expenditure on land cost and rentals, if any, will not be counted for purposes of backend infrastructure.
Subsequent investment in the back-end infrastructure would be made by the MBRT retailer as needed, depending upon his business requirements.
At least 30 per cent of the value of procurement of manufactured/ processed products purchased shall be sourced from Indian micro, small and medium industries which have a total investment in plant & machinery not exceeding US $2.00 million. This valuation refers to the value at the time of installation, without providing for depreciation.
The `small industry` status would be reckoned only at the time of first engagement with the retailer and such industry shall continue to qualify as a `small industry` for this purpose even if it outgrows the said investment of US$ 2.00 million, during the course of its relationship with the said retailer.
Sourcing from agricultural co-operatives and farmers co¬operatives would also be considered in this category. The procurement requirement would have to be met, in the first instance, as an average of five years` total value of the manufactured/ processed products purchased, beginning 1st April of the year during which the first tranche of FDI is received. Thereafter, it would have to be met on an annual basis.
Retail sales outlets may be set up only in cities with a population of more than 10 lakh as per the 2011 Census or any other cities as per the decision of the respective State Governments, and may also cover an area of 10 kms around the municipal/urban agglomeration limits of such cities; retail locations will be restricted to conforming areas as per the Master/Zonal Plans of the concerned cities and provision will be made for requisite facilities such as transport connectivity and parking.
The amendment in the extant FDI policy relating to Multi-Brand Retail Trading in respect of `small industry` will bring in a balance between the business exigencies of the MBRT entity and intent of the policy which is to extend the benefits of the FDI policy in multi-brand retail trading to a larger constituency of small industries. The amendment in the provision regarding `back-end infrastructure` will give more clarity to the policy. The amendment to the provision regarding location of retail outlets will bring in parity in the policy as it is proposed to extend such dispensation to all States.
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To bring up the bitcoin link from yesterday, he seemed only to be saying that money is the unit you think of prices in. That's both easiest and hardest to change since it's entirely psychological. While true, not a functional pivot point to hang your hat on. You start pricing in other currencies when you use them more. No doubt Europeans used to price in 2-3 currencies all the time, and we know many South Americans do, as they use their own currency and black market US$. Oddly, BTC people are already mentally pricing in BTC, most commonly concerning crypto exchange rates.
Nevertheless, it's not nothing. How to look at it? Well, we can use P.R. as an example. What worked there? BTC was pretty much shut down, a zero in the recovery, as although in theory you can move crypto on paper, or phone-to-phone, in reality no one does. Gold, however, was at a steep discount to cash. Maybe not as much as pawned guitars, but unpleasant. Cash remains king.
But let's not stop there. How's it going in my favorite case Venezuela? You have official currency at a steep and rising discount that hard to change. Cash is not king there. US$ is probably most taken, but very hard to get. And how do you price, as the author suggested was a necessary function? You can't. Not in US$, not in Bolivar. Yet there is money.
How is gold there? Fine, except that food is more valuable, and having gold (or gasoline) will get you killed. If there's one gold coin and one chicken in the ruined neighborhood, the chicken is more valuable for dinner. Gold is only good for exchange, but the ports and other infrastructure are shut down. You know what is useful, though? Bitcoin. Even aside from the free-electric BTC mining, Bitcoin isn't visible to be robbed, and isn't locked into the physical neighborhood it resides. Citizens who get ahold of it order food delivered in from Amazon.com, breaking the idiotic government blockade. So in their case, with electric up, BTC is MORE valuable than gold or US$. So it depends on the situation.
The one problem they definitively don't have is which currency to price in. They could care less. Pricing and long-term planning is a far higher level than pure exchange, and in any case, it hardly matters anymore since any PC, even your phone will have instant and perfect exchange calculations, rendering the "thought-about-pricing" somewhat moot.
Your hypotheticals do not translate to reality.
Case in point; my ex-father-in-law was Russian; captured by the Germans; released at wars end.
He hated Jews, why? Because if, as a refugee, if you wanted bread; the bakers (Jews) would only accept gold for payment. That's a true story.
That is quite true. However what do you do if, like Venezuela, the local bakers have no flour because nothing is made locally anymore? You need to ship that gold to the shipper, the grinder, the farmer. How do you do that? Hitler and Stalin and Maduro are going to be everywhere in between. This may sound crazy, but we've never had a world where the materials for survival are not local, even national. How are the Americans going to get transformers, radios, shoes, copper, lead, car parts? "Globalization" has insured that the middle men are everywhere and each nation's needs for survival are 5,000 miles away. This is what Venezuela found out: with the country in disarray, they needed to import things. Yes, they can be bought on the black market for gold –or easier with greenbacks– but they can be bought directly with less premium if you have an operational de-facto worldwide bank-transfer system. But again, that's within a window. Easiest is of course a paycheck direct-deposit tied to a debit card, all credit, all virtual. Moving down through paper checks to cash-purchases, then to gold and even back to barter and family favors all the way to bullets and violence. Bitcoin works in only one of those windows, but then, so does gold. Gold was less useful in both Puerto Rico and Venezuela, but is more useful under Stalin, or quite probably in Syria and Libya. BTC is probably useful in Ukraine but not Puerto Rico. It depends on the problem you're trying to solve.
Is gold going to be more reliable than Bitcoin? Almost certainly. A donkey breaks less than a car as well, but that doesn't mean I don't own one. But like I said, if there's nothing in your neighborhood to buy, or having gold will get you killed, it can be useful to have an invisible option that's tradable worldwide. How will you get your palatial estate worth of gold across the Austrian border, Mr. VonTrapp? In the meantime, do you really think the border guard is going to accept bitcoin? Horses for courses.
Let me put it this way: I'm the only guy left in the neighborhood that grows anything. And it's a shock that even I do or know how, since it costs me a lot of scarce money and a lot of valuable time. I may also be one of the few who could still bake the town's bread from air-yeast. But I won't take gold.
First, they don't have any, so it's pointless. But even if I took gold, then everyone in town knows I own gold. It's too dangerous. Over time, all their gold is in my house and they're looking at me. So if I, who have the town's only (garden) seeds and only (garden) crops, who is the only one who makes and grows food, won't take gold for food, tell me again how useful gold is.
Now if only I could ship that money out to a safer area and be part of a wider trading system, I could safely trade with my town all day long, and everybody eats. You tell me how it works. In "Dying of Money" by Jens O. Parsons, Berlin farmers were sitting on their food because it was too dangerous to bring to market and didn't need to trade for that 3rd piano. That was still under a silver/gold-coin system with a hundredweight of metal in every county. Yet they were using theft and murder to distribute goods instead.
Food and fuel (barter) could also someday challenge cash, gold, Bitcoin, etc., especially if falling EROEI leads to a collapse in delivery systems and/or power grids. Oh, and add attractive daughters to food and fuel. So keep doing what you're doing.
Let's just hope the directed energy weapons used on 9/11 and the California fires can be harnessed for constructive purposes before falling EROEI ends civilization.
Why is directed energy only used as a weapon? Who makes those decisions?
I learned yesterday that it is now against the law in seventeen countries to criticize Israel or question the so-called "Holocaust." They're currently trying to make the U.S. #18. Remarkably, most people are too cowed to even dare to ask why.
If a couple semesters of college physics taught me anything, it was that I'm no physicist. But from all I've read, I've had to formulate a tentative picture of some sort to explain directed energy to myself. So I'll tell you my tentative picture so you have at least one broken hook to hang your hat on while you rummage around.
This won't make sense to anybody not paying any attention, and it frankly makes no sense to me, but here goes. You have NexRad and HAARP working in conjunction with chemtrails, the result being clouds with standing waves (clouds that look like the face of a washboard). The point of this is somehow to dilate a portion of the ionosphere, far above the clouds, to create a bubble in that highly charged atmospheric layer. Then, and I'm just guessing, an array of satellites in geosynchronous orbit focuses microwaves (or ion beams?), perhaps along laser beams, at targets on Earth (after reading license plates and home addresses).
In an old-fashioned tungsten filament light bulb, the glow comes from electrical resistance, not combustion. Fluorescent and LED bulbs don't even get hot. Those homes might have "flared up" in tandem with their disintegration from outer space. All I know for sure is that "we've never seen anything like it before" means they've never seen anything like it before.
But I'm not frightened. I'm terrorized. The chemtrails along the Front Range corridor between Colorado Springs and Fort Collins have been absolutely thick the last few days, and not a drop of rain is forecasted for the next ten. Since they'll be able to link my comments to my IP address, and possibly my home, maybe now's the time to pack a suitcase?
I am glad to say that here in Melbourne there is no shortage of insects. They are all over the place now that winter seems to be over (it was 30C two days ago and today it is a maximum of 17C). Lots of birds too – which one no longer sees in Europe. Without the spiders and birds, we would be in trouble.
Perhaps the Germans should try and reflect on the likely connection between their huge pesticide businesses and the absence of insects.
I am normally pretty sceptical about "directed energy weapons". Can someone more knowledgeable than me explain why the wood of this fence post is burning first near the wire, nails and bolts?
Diablo, I wholeheartedly agree with you that gold is not what you want to be relying on in the midst of crisis. It can get you killed. Rather, gold should be lying still, untouched, unseen, unknown, out of sight and out of mind until the transition to the next system is complete. There is a coming revaluation. Not a bull market, but a night-and-day one time revaluation. I have no idea when it is coming, but it will come. The reserve asset that central banks have on their balance sheets is the same reserve asset you should have buried in the back yard under your chicken coop.


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Q: Why ST_Equals for same geometries returns false? Why ST_Equals for same objects (one from geometry column and another from geojson extracted from the same geometry column) returns false?
Ex.:
select st_equals(geom, st_setsrid(st_geomfromgeojson(st_asgeojson(geom)), 2180)) from city

Definition of column geom is:
ALTER TABLE city ADD COLUMN geom geometry(MultiPolygon,2180);

EDIT:
Query with st_asgeojson(geom, 999999999) also not working
select st_equals(geom, st_setsrid(st_geomfromgeojson(st_asgeojson(geom, 999999999)), 2180)) from city

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Reproducible example:
SELECT st_equals(geom, st_setsrid(st_geomfromgeojson(st_asgeojson(geom, 999999999)), 2180))
FROM
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QTsvQxUcvB9Bdw1O9C7IJkEVnpoEBD0fQcFK5/MexSZBwMHT9KXEHkFNt8zxIdwmQezy8+91nx5B
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URITcx4gQbSMcQaieSdBD6hpGcbbH0Efk6v4nDcnQQEDAAAAAQAAAAUAAABERDkK5GcfQdNUQuem
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H0HTVELnpmQmQQEDAAAAAQAAAAUAAAAkHKMesHYgQTy3RfkU7iZBi9UrHiJzIEG7SVjr0oMmQR/r
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QQi4hQfNWidBPG9yISCMIEHAqSEKtW4nQQ==', 'base64')) geom) a

A: st_asGeoJson reduces coordinates decimals to 9 digits by default. Should the source geometry have more digits, the transformed geometry is therefore different.
Also geometries are saved using double precision, with 15 significant digits. If your data (input) has less, the remaining digits are still set but can be considered as noise... however this noise is exported/imported back, and can be slightly different than the input.
The simplest to overcome this is to snap the coordinates to a grid, whose size is your input precision. You should do the snap on the source geometry (when adding the data to your DB), and when reading the geojson
st_equals(ST_SnaptoGrid(geom,5),ST_SnaptoGrid(st_setsrid(st_geomfromgeojson(st_asgeojson(ST_SnaptoGrid(geom,5))), 2180),5))

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May 7, 2008 9:30 pmJoe Concha
With the exception of your closest friends, and you know who they are, most friendships are like a McDonalds drive-thru: A matter of quick and easy convenience.
Let's face it: Particularly for single people, niche friends are the lifeblood of existence. We need, as a candid friend once described, "warm bodies" to surround ourselves with to help bridge the gaps between relationships and work. These kinds of allies fill social calendars and beach and ski rentals while simultaneously creating a false yet strong sense of security.
You could use a date for a family wedding so the relatives will stop whispering that since you're still unattached you can't possibly be heterosexual?
Email Jill.
Want to ride the coattails of a stud friend to a seamless hook-up at a Hobson's Happy Hour?
Contact Phil.
At last check, I had seven groups of friends that I can call upon for entertainment, and there are even a handful I can actually trust. Some friends actually fall under all seven categories simultaneously:
1) Watch sports with friends: Outside of sports it is possible to socialize with these people, but even when we're out at Madison's or Morans; we always end up talking about the game instead of ogling unsuspecting women.
Sample conversation from last week:
Mike: "What do you think of the blond with the belly ring over there?"
Chris (apathetic): "Yo, what's the Giants score? I can't see with that blond with the belly ring blocking the TV."
Joe: "36-24…"
Chris: "Giants?"
Mike: "No, her dimensions."
Chris: "Dimensions? They're playing a dime package."
Mike: "What?"
Chris: "Huh?"
Joe: "Forget it."
2) Can only hang out with if I have a girlfriend friends: These people, suddenly horrified by their former pathetic single status, only extend invites and eVites when a perfectly allocated "boy-girl-boy-girl" seating scenario exists. In their minds, stags are a logistical drag for dinner parties; while coming to Hoboken's crowded bars (where these couples likely met) is absolutely out of the question. Oftentimes friends that find companionship will only continue the friendship on more than a yearly get-together basis if it appears that you are making the pivot to that lifestyle. Otherwise, having three months of fun with…
3) Sharing shore house with friends: Try as you might in the cold weather months, you can't hang out with these folks unless it's over 80 degrees and all involved are stumbling at sea level. Fall, winter and spring nights out with sharing shore house friends bring forth the realization that outside of alcohol, air mattresses, and an affinity for salt air, there is absolutely nothing you have in common with these people.
4) Living in other cities friends: Great for visiting and cheap lodging. These relationships, if maintained, present the least amount of issues.
5) Email to pass time at work with friends: The most expendable and recyclable of all categories. These electronic acquaintances generally have the least taxing jobs and therefore have the most time to conversationally correspond and/or send joke files that are large enough to freeze the hard drive of the computer from WarGames. E-friends may also fit into any of the categories above, but the moment you are face-to-face an email buddy, there seems to be nothing to actually talk about. Consequently, email becomes the only way to truly communicate.
Invariably, proactive email friends are single, so the moment one finds a significant other to write every frivolous thought to instead of you; this cyberspace friendship will cease to exist.
6) Lingering high school friends: The remaining 10% of what was once a juggernaut social group from the original high school network. These are the fortunate souls that are most likely to make the final cut when eventually deciding who qualifies for the wedding party roster.
7) Former girlfriend but cool enough to stay friends with friends: When speaking of failed romances, there are three stages:
1) Meeting stage 2) Honeymoon/sex like sea-otters stage 3) Break-up stage
How smoothly Stage 3 goes will determine if your ex will become a trusted advisor or just a memory. These days, it seems more young adults are staying friends with their former companions, simply because we have become selective to the point that the breakup isn't taken as personally as it once was.
And no one knows you better than that person who listened to you ramble during your most honest of moments (see: The first 2-11 minutes after ejaculation).
When reflecting on the strength of my friendships, sometimes the thought of faking my own funeral is conjured up just to see the reaction of others in such a situation.
Who will weep uncontrollably? Who will do the eulogy? Who will blow the whole thing off because they had Coldplay tickets? ("You know how I know you're gay? You like Coldplay").
Then again, after my current seven sets of friends read this story, there may not be a need to "fake" anything…


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How Staffordshire's distinctive Catholic history influenced the building of Haunton's Catholic church
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If you drive or cycle north of Tamworth in Staffordshire through the Mease valley towards the village of Clifton Campville and its majestic church spire (St Andrew's Anglican church reputedly has the tallest spire of any village church in England) you could easily miss the Catholic church of St Michael and St James in Haunton a mile before. But it is a building of some quality, containing symbols that reflect not just Haunton's but Staffordshire's significant Catholic history.
Although largely a twentieth century building, the church has its roots in the three great strands of the Catholic revival of the 19th century: the Oxford movement; the gothic revival; and the economic freedoms that enabled upper middle class and aristocratic Catholics to fund the building of churches and schools.
These influences came together in Haunton after Colonel Charles Mousley inherited Haunton Hall. His Catholicism came both from his Spanish mother and his father's links to Staffordshire's deeper Catholic past. In 1845, the Mousleys commissioned AWN Pugin to design a chapel at the Hall dedicated to St Mary. Sadly (from an architectural viewpoint) this is now incorporated into Haunton Hall Nursing Home but can still just about be seen to the right of the main entrance. It was soon judged to be too small for a growing Catholic population and there was talk of building a new church on land opposite the hall.
The influence of the Oxford movement came to Haunton through Reverend Henry John Pye, Rector of St Andrew's in Clifton Campville and son of the squire of Clifton Hall. Cambridge educated, in 1851 Pye married Emily, daughter of Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford and grand-daughter of William Wilberforce, the great anti-slavery campaigner. After a long and complex spiritual journey, he and his wife decided to convert to Catholicism in 1868. This was a significant and difficult step for them as Pye was cut off from his living, his wider family and (initially at least) his inheritance. Pye wrote a long treatise for his Clifton parishioners on his reasons for converting.
He became a barrister and JP and over time reconciled with his family. By 1880, Henry and Emily had returned to the area and were determined to build a new Catholic church in Haunton. They gifted land for the church, but needed more money to realise their dream.
In 1885, Augustus de Trafford came to Haselour Hall near Harlaston – around three miles from Haunton. A member of an old Lancastrian Catholic family and son of a Baronet; de Trafford's wider family gives its name to a Manchester local authority, and cricket and football grounds beloved of many. Around the same time, Lady Frances Mostyn came to Haunton Hall. The Mostyns are most closely associated with Mostyn Hall in Flintshire and her son Francis was appointed the first Vicar Apostolic of Wales in 1895.
The resources of the Mousleys, Pyes, de Traffords and Mostyns were eventually combined to help finance the building of a church on Pye's land opposite Haunton Hall.
The first church on the site opened in January 1885. Probably funded by Mousley and Pye, it was dedicated to St Michael and was a temporary iron structure. By 1887, this was extended by the addition of a chancel built in part "from the stones of an ancient mediaeval chapel dedicated to St James [the Great] which stood eastwards of its present site and had long fallen into decay." In fact, the root of this story is difficult to trace and in the 1881 Ordnance Survey map, the site is labelled 'St Agnes' rather than St James. However, the re-use of these stones around the window above the present high altar was a symbolic link of the old with the new. As a result, the dedication of the church was changed to the rather unusual combination of St Michael and St James.
In 1901, the prefabricated structure was replaced by the present stone building, designed by Edmund Kirby, a pupil of Pugin's oldest son Edward. The church is in an adaptation of the Early English style, built in red and white Hollington sandstone with a timber bellcote at the west end. While the building is relatively small, it is coherent in its design and is little altered. It has a distinctive heavy scissor-trussed roof and the interior fittings are of high quality. These include a font in a late twelfth century Romanesque style whose provenance is uncertain. It was most likely found next to the River Mease, but another source says it was imported from Treviso. Whatever its origin, it was probably not designed as a font as it portrays no obvious Christian symbols.
The high altar is most likely by Kirby and at the church's consecration, The Tablet said "the columns are of pavanazzo marble and the super-altars are also of rich marble. The tabernacle is of pure white alabaster, beautifully carved with angels and the emblems of wheat and the vine". As it was financed with little debt, the church was consecrated on 20th June 1907.
The windows in the church are its most distinctive feature and are of fine quality. Despite their "Victorian" feel, they are all of the 20th century. Those in the nave and chancel are by John Hardman and Co. of Handsworth. Influenced by Pugin, they have strong gothic characteristics. Some have great historical themes and others are distinctively Catholic, with scenes of Our Lady and of the shrine at Lourdes. They were mostly commissioned by the founding families – from the chancel windows above the high altar dedicated to Lady Mostyn; to those from the de Traffords on the south side of the nave, many of which commemorate family war dead. The principal west windows commemorate the Pye family. A further south window, depicting the Assumption, St Edward the Confessor and Pope St Eugene, commemorates the Mousleys. Col. Mousley's was the first burial in the graveyard in 1887.
Unusually, the central window on the north side is in memory of Father John O'Toole, an early pastor of the church and includes representations of items still in use today including church plate and the Sanctus bell. The window was designed by W. J. Wainwright, President of the Birmingham Society of Artists for Hardmans. Father O'Toole is pictured in the lower portion of the window alongside representations of the sisters of St Joseph of Bordeaux who had a strong and distinctive presence in Haunton from 1904 to 2017. The most recent window is in the chancel and commemorates Oswald de Trafford who died in 1942 and is also by Hardman.
It is possible that St Michael and St James is the only church in the diocese to have a complete set of nave windows by Hardman and the overall effect is pleasing and harmonious.
The Lady chapel is a later addition. The chapel's side windows are by Alexander Gascoygne and include his distinctive golden lion motif. These were commissioned in 1925 by Mrs Donisthorpe of Enderby Hall, Leicestershire and have a different and richer style – almost pre-Raphaelite when compared to the Hardman windows. The gorgeous window picturing the conversion of St Hubert is an unusual theme in English stained glass and is perhaps the finest window in the church – and a full development of Gascoyne's work as he died soon after his work at Haunton.
SS Michael and James is a small parish and as of 2018, no priest is appointed as sole pastor. Rev Tony Rigby, the Deacon attached to the parish is supported by the Area Dean who is the appointed parish administrator. The parish remains very active with prayer and Eucharistic Services at several points in the week. Ecumenical links with our Anglican friends at St Andrew's are also strong. The church has the celebration of a Mass for Sunday at least once a month.
Interior photographs by Coralie Wells, parishioner and design student
The Church of St Michael and St James Haunton
Above – the north window dedicated to Father O'Toole and the Sisters of St Joseph of Bordeaux.
Above – Father O'Toole is pictured outside the church in the mid-1920s
A detail from the side chapel window dedicated to St Hubert and by Alexander Gascoyne.
The font is of uncertain provenance and may have been found locally.
The inscription to the memorial to Henry Pye – former Rector of Clifton Campville, who converted to Catholicism and was the principal patron of Haunton Church


When the British Army standardized the swords to be carried by infantry officers in 1796 this is the sword they settled on; a spadroon-like cut-and-thrust sword with simple, but elegant Georgian styling that hearkened back to the Smallswords carried by gentlemen in earlier times. In just four years following, the blade was at the hip of practically all British Line Infantry Officers. Regardless of the standardization of form, the blades varied in their width and in their engraved decoration. Though widespread, it was not regarded as a good combat blade despite being used through the entirety of Britain's contests with France in the Napoleonic Era. It would not be officially replaced until 1822 by the more elaborate ''Gothic-Hilted'' sword and before then many officers had opted to acquire the 1803 Pattern saber instead.
This replica of the 1796 British Infantry Officer sword has a blade of unsharpened, tempered high carbon steel. It has a hilt of brass and a grip wrapped in copper wire plated with silver. The scabbard is of leather with brass accents.