Hi Rob. Just popping by to view one of your earlier videos - I was drawn in by the thumbnail which seemed to show you singing! You taking a break from recording, just now? I’ve managed to keep to a weekly upload though the editing can be quite laborious, and is my least favourite bit (the best being the actual visit!).
Amazing how many people who live in Leeds, including myself. Regularly walk past the buildings, covered in this video. Thanks for reminding me of the beauty of the many buildings we have in Leeds city centre.
This what English churches were like before the reformation when ancient wall paintings were whitewashed over and medieval stained glass smashed . Some fragments have survived that destruction.
I'm pretty sure I've been to Warwick Castle on a canal walk, it was during the last royal wedding. They had an extremely good local ESB that I still remember fondly. I do not remember the royal wedding fondly.
That is fabulous, thank you for sharing. I would like to point out that the background music is very loud. Unfortunately for those with hearing loss it makes it difficult to understand everything you are saying. That said thanks again, it is well worth a visit.
Thank you so much for sharing these images! Very encouraging, and insightful in every way! Just beautiful in balance, harmony, colour and design! And how excellent to have on display the original preparatory drawings too... Such a prvivilege to see that extraordinary commitment to excellence! Remarkable❤
It's quite an ensemble isn't it. And the preparatory drawings are, in my opinion, a greater highlight! Thanks for your lovely comment and so pleased to read you enjoyed seeing the clips I put together!
In Texas you have the Painted Churches Tour, east of San Antonio.These are Catholic churches that are painted and were founded by German, Polish, and Czech settlers to America.
Thanks for this video! I've missed your videos and posts on Instagram, but I am glad that you're giving yourself a break and still sharing here. Cheers!
I am guessing the money came from the wool trade, given the name and association with other Suffolk churches. Charming village too. Nearby are clay deposits which lack iron. This enabled the firing of white bricks which were fashionable in the eighteenth and nineteenth century.
I have to admit I'd hoped the paintings were going to be medieval, but they're really good in their own right, and it's a really beautiful restored church. I love that the Victorian artist did a decent impression of medieval art, but also included obviously anachronistic details like a pineapple and an anatomically accurate giraffe (rather than a 'camelopard'). I wonder whether they were just mistakes, or if they were done deliberately as a private joke?
What a fascinating, almost methodist looking interior (?) church. Poor Dracula, not having a grave to ‘Count’. I misread one of the exterior signs as ‘If they hear not ‘moles’ - Thought I, “I knew they were blind but how sad they were also afflicted with not being heard” (much like women? 🤭 joke….!!!) - luckily, I was also afflicted with not being heard until you read this! 😂. Apologies to women for not ‘keep(ing) thy tongue’ - oops 🫣
It has that look about it, certainly. Reflective of a very particular liturgy, but I think largely the approach to furnishings was left to run quite out of hand. I'm sure several social factors contributed to its overall development into the complex beast it still survives as today. Fascinating, really. I have also seen a house near a churchyard in another part of Yorkshire with a sign about moles! I'll have to see if I can dig out the sign!
I've been to Whitby many times but never went into the church. I think I always assumed it was closed to the public to avoid being overwhelmed by huge numbers of tourists.
Quite the opposite - it is always open. Even when I went last week, it was open despite works to the chancel (though that section was closed). Well worth a revisit
Thanks for another great video. I can't believe I once ran up those abbey steps! The church is still the site of the Folk Week Service on the last Sunday in August. Whitby was always a place of great Christian significance, the home of St Hilda and Caedmon and stamping ground of Blessed Nicholas Postgate, whose cause for canonisation is currently being promoted. James Cook would probably have visited St Mary's and would certainly have seen it as he passed in and out of the harbour.
Such an atmospheric place, even without the Dracula story. Those ear trumpets freaked me out as a child. In fact the whole church did, looking so strange to me, then only familiar with churches George Gilbert Scott had got his hands on. Thanks for letting me see it again.
Yes, perhaps I should have expressed this a little clearer but I had to cut the length of the script way down because I hadn't enough footage! It is exceptional in its own right, literally fame aside, absolutely agree. It was my birthday when I shot this film so I was also a bit rushed to get to the brewery, have a pint and head down some sketching of the Abbey!
An interesting tour - thank you; pleased you were sensitive to and acknowledged the Cheshire history as the newer GM identity one is almost universally ignored and is little more than an unpopular administrative expression (the same is true of most the rest of the GM towns to the north who still regard themselves as Lancashire). The town’s football team is Stockport County (= county borough of Cheshire). The ecclesiastical boundaries mercifully were *not* changed in the great vivisection of 1974, so the whole of Stockport remains today in the Diocese of Chester. (PS. You need to visit the medieval Staircase House right next to St Mary’s).
Hi Rob. Bravely entering without a hard hat? I really enjoyed this video. A church of contrasts - looked lovely from the inside - I loved the electric lights almost pretending to be 'bosses' (I even readily approve of the sunny blue pews) - what a shame it is falling apart at the seams, externally - lets hope funds are raised to renew it.
Absolutely loving this video! 💙 Such a charming church with so much history 😍. It makes me a lil' sad to see it deteriorating though 😥. Hope the restoration goes well and they manage to raise all the money! 🤞😊
Wouldn't it have been nice if they could have kept a full sized colour flex printed photo in place of the stained glass window which was removed for safekeeping till the repairs are done?
I've seen a church in the East Riding which has vinyl stickers imitating stained glass in its east window and it has done for at least a decade. The mind does truly boggle! I understand why you dislike the blue and I think that's totally fair! I've probably just become so used to it! I will be very interested to see what justification is made for changing the colour in the future!
