Forgotten History: Visiting St Patrick's Chapel Heysham
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- Опубліковано 3 лют 2023
- An explore of the amazing St Peters church yard, St Patricks chapel and the stone carved graves in Heysham Lancashire.
The Spirit of Heysham, giving a few clues to what can be found nearby.
St Peters church, Heysham. In Lancashire. Predominantly dating from the 14th and 15th century. The site has been in use for much longer it seems.
At the entrance to the church yard stands this stone shaft, the remains of a stone cross, dating to around the 8th or 9th century.
Imagine the effort and skill it would take, to carve a stone coffin with nothing but hand tools.
Inside the church lies a Norse hog back grave covering, which dates to 1000AD, unfortunately the church was locked but this image shows the stone.
The west door of the church, which is blocked up, dates back to Saxon times
Legend has it that St Patrick was shipwrecked off Heysham and built a chapel on the cliff above the church.
Whatever the truth, there are the remains of a chapel bearing Patricks name on the cliff beyond the church dating back some sources say to the 5th century when it was built of timber, subsequently being rebuilt in the 8th century in stone and then again in the 10th century, it is certainly one of the earliest Christian sites in the northwest of England.
Excavations in the area have uncovered burials dating to the 10th and 11th centuries, with one female having been found with a Viking period antler comb. An early Christian grave with links back to pagan grave goods.
These artists impressions from the information board give an idea of how the site may have once looked.
To the west of the chapel are these fascinating rock carved graves, which once featured on a best of Black Sabbath album cover. Wonder what the old inhabitants would have thought of that.
5 of the 6 six have sockets to the head end which are thought to have housed crosses.
What a spot to pay respects to the dead
These graves are the only ones of their kind in the UK and without comparisons they can't really be dated, as the contents and covers have long since gone, so radiocarbon dating is not possible, they are generally thought to be pre Norman conquest.
Some sources suggest they may have been used for disarticulated bones as reliquaries rather than for burials and could have made the chapel a place for pilgrimage.
2 more stone cut graves lie to the south east of the chapel, were these for a parent and child, with one cross or grave marker in the carved socket?
Who were these early Christians who put great effort into carving out these graves?
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This is a fascinating little church with its unique stone carved burials. I looked on a map and there is a quaint little town right next to it. That would be treat to visit. Maybe some day.
This takes me back about 55 years. I remember the church which was open and remember the rock carved graves.
I remember the nettle drink we got in Heysham village.
It'd be good to go back again.
It's nice to know this has brought back memories, not had a nettle drink, must give it a try. Thanks for watching and sharing memories.
@@eastwoodsadventures Yes, I thought of it one time when making lemonade and looked for a recipe. Must try it.
Always plenty of nettles to go at
@@eastwoodsadventures Yep, I can get some locally.
Make some up in a flask or bottla and head back to Heysham. You will probably find it hasn't changed much
A magical place, I’ve been there countless times, my nephew loved it that much he got married there, he lives in Toronto, he got lots of people to come over for the wedding.
Thats a long way to go for a wedding 😊 thanks for watching
I was there. Same weather. The stones pushed my hands away. I could not touch them, no matter how I tried. The site has a very mystic aura about it.
Interesting site. And superb background music
Thank you 😊 and thanks for the feedback
Thank you for the fascinating video... great content... best regards from Chicago
Hi Chicago 👋 thanks for watching
Just some points, The Hog Back Stone in St Peter’s has Viking symbols on one side and Christian symbols on the other, if you look on the right hand side of St Patrick’s chapel you can see part of a stone grave underneath. The stone coffins, as somebody said to me after I said they would have taken some time to dig out the guy said perhaps not, they did not work 9 to 5 in those days is was dusk till dawn.
Im glad to see that they did what they could to secure the remaining stone walls to try to preserve whats left as long as they can.
I'm sure it's a constant battle with the wind whipping off the Irish sea
I read the 1662 funeral service there in 1999 for Jonathan Thompson who committed suicide. He was an old university friend. Several other friends of his attended on that damp day. He was the last of his family. I miss him.
That's a tragic story, so sorry
@@eastwoodsadventures Thank you. He was a tragic figure. The place was of his choosing and could not have been better.
Saint Patrick Sunday 2024 Sad the Church was Locked during your winter visit/Please return on Saint Patrick Day
Thank you to the commentator Today on the video titled Saint Patrick was not Irish and not a Saint
who wrote about this Chapel but omitted to name Heysham near Morecambe Bay in Lancashire
but still Thankfully I found it /This earliest site of wooden church built by Patrick even before Arthur Battle of Badon
Early 6 Century Century in Gildas and even
before Saint Gregory saw Angli / Angles and Angels in Forum at Rome
Unfortunately , I am no where near today, but I will return again to see the inside of the church. Thanks for watching
Thank you for your reply on Saint Patrick Day
who I pray will bless you/After watching your video found another video on Shore website made in spring to same church to inspire you to return and it does show the inside which you may like to view and link up to your own and also adds Saint Lazarus Stone outside a symbol of our Resurrection in Wisdom which Saint Patrick prayers will bring to both England and Ireland
Ah loved this one, just up my street a must visit place when I'm next in that part of the country, great film and facts👍 think the rock-cut graves are probably anglo norse in origin?
Thanks for watching. It's an interesting place to visit well worth it if you get the chance. Probably is Anglo Norse
@@eastwoodsadventures Its on my todolist 👍
My to-do list just keeps getting longer 😆
They're megalithic (pre biblical flood). They look exactly the same as the other strange cut marks you see at other megalithic sites around the world. England has a few. Another good example is the rock cut base of Nottingham castle. Here's a great channel that documents all these megalithic sites from around the world: www.youtube.com/@vlad9vt/videos
Another thing you'll notice is that there are a lot of churches built on top of pre flood ruins.
Nahum 1:5-8
5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
7 The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
They have graves like that at shap abby too
Thanks for watching and commenting. I believe those at Shap to be the individual sarcophagus type rather than carved directly into the bedrock.
@@eastwoodsadventuresits been a while so a little foggy. Ill have to dig the photos of a old friend who fit in the perfectly
So unsettling
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A Very Sacred and Mythical Place !
Thanks for watching
They're megalithic (pre biblical flood). They look exactly the same as the other strange cut marks you see at other megalithic sites around the world. England has a few. Another good example is the rock cut base of Nottingham castle. Here's a great channel that documents all these megalithic sites from around the world: www.youtube.com/@vlad9vt/videos
Another thing you'll notice is that there are a lot of churches built on top of pre flood ruins.
Nahum 1:5-8
5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
7 The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
Thanks for watching
Site has megalithic remains.
Thanks for watching
As Christianity did not come to England until the 8th Century there is no way there is a chapel dating back to the 5th Century in England. Honestly I look at English historians and hear what they say and just shake my head because a fair amount of it they know cannot be true.
The current ruin dates back to the 8th century. As said in the video, some sources say it dates back earlier, and St Patrick is thought to have died around 490. There is always conjecture in unwritten history. There was christianity in Britain whilst the Romans were here too around the 4th century.
Thanks for watching.
Yeah fair enough there was some Christianity in Britain but not in England in the 5th century. It had been heard of in other parts in the 4th century quite possibly@@eastwoodsadventures
In Richborough, Kent. There is a font made soon after Christianity was legalised by Emperor Constantine in AD 313, which is one of the earliest Christian remains in Britain. Kent is in ENGLAND, which is part of Britain. There is other evidence, too.
I know where Kent is I just don't believe that because it is the exact opposite to everything else I have heard until the last couple of years when all these "facts" have suddenly popped up.@@eastwoodsadventures
That is nonsense. The Celtic Church was widespread by the 5th Century. Don’t forget that the north west of England was the Welsh/Brythonic kingdom of Rheged and along with the other Welsh kingdoms were successor states to Roman Britain whose state religion was Christianity since the early 4th century. The English may have not been converted until the 7th Century but Christianity had been practiced for several centuries by that time throughout the British isles including the area of present day Lancashire that is riddled with Welsh place names.
Once part of a Britonnic kingdom, Rheged. Now taken over by English foreigners from Germany.
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