Crossbones

07/06/2026

Michael Travis's short film contains footage of our first rituals performed on the graveyard to reclaim it as land sacred to s*x workers and outcasts. Friends of Crossbones, this is our Herstory!

Cross Bones is a disused burial ground in the heart of London, orig...

26/05/2026

Back from Derry, after an amazing weekend at the World Ritual Arts Symposium. Checked in at Ulster University Friday evening, and all through Saturday and Sunday it was a non-stop immersive experience, with academic presentations and mind-blowing ritual performances – including a meditative Chinese tea ceremony, Keralan and Balinese trance rituals and a Turkish Sufi dramatisation of ‘The Conference of the Birds’. My talk / performance on our ritual works at Crossbones Graveyard got standing ovations - with two foreign professors kissing my hand and saying: ‘You are our Master!’ (Haha! Don’t worry! Crow has The Goose, Katy Kaos and the Friends of Crossbones to remind him that he's not the Messiah. He's just a very naughty crow having the time of his sweet short life! 😉 ) After that the Armagh Rhymers took us out with their indescribable pagan music theatre thing.

The highlight of the whole weekend was Saturday night on a beach at sunset, where the Candomblé priestesses waded into the sea to present our flower offerings to Yemanja – followed by an extraordinary fire ritual conducted by Mark and Mandy (Mork and Mindy as my friend Paddy Bloomer calls them) and their Irish crew. As I was walking back to the bus, completely entranced, one of the astonished locals who'd chanced upon it pulled up in her car to ask: ‘WHAT was THAT!’ She told me she was going through a crisis with her family and that witnessing this had given her hope for the future: ‘But I don’t know if I can move on.’ ‘You will.’ I said. ‘How do you know?’ ‘Because you’re here, now.’ We laughed. ‘You’re right’ she said. Squeezed my hand and drove off. It’s at moments like this I know why I’m here...

text and photos by John Constable aka John Crow

05/05/2026

For more on this amazing place and the spirits (incarnate and discarnate) who work here with The Goose and John Crow, please visit

Welcome In the back streets of south London, a short walk from Shakespeare’s Globe, Southwark Cathedral and The Shard, is the site of an old burial ground with an extraordinary history. For centuries it was a paupers’ graveyard for the area formerly known as The Mint, one of London’s poorest a...

05/05/2026

The Herstory of Crossbones Graveyard in less than 3 minutes!
Don't be put off by the "Not Nice London" tag. In these dark days, the Crossbones story is an affirmation of human resilience and the triumph of Love and Life over Death. The Goose is loose!

16/04/2026

To get us in the mood for the St George's Day Vigil (Crossbones Shrine in Redcross Way SE1, 23rd April 6.45 for 7pm portal) John Constable's Mummers Play presents George as undergoing a threefold initiation with the Divine Feminine and not only slaying but healing and raising The Dragon - with the help of Or Lady and the Queens of the Earth!

The Glastonbury St George Mummers Play:

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14/04/2026

Rose Carmichael's thoughtful and sympathetic account of the life and works of Crossbones Graveyard with a report from a Vigil, an interview with John Crow, musings on paganism, Christianity, "shamanism", cultural appropriation and the interplay of Time and Eternity ❤

Crossbones Graveyard and The Ethics of Recording the Sacred. Former Resonance intern, Rose Carmichael, walks through the history of Crossbones Graveyard, an almost forgotten medieval graveyard for s*x workers on the South bank of London, and explores what it means to record the sacred: is it ethical...

08/04/2026

Goose 'avin' a gander. The CrossBones shrine on Redcross Way during our day of Dance with The Dead, 22nd March 2026
photo by Mark Page