Exploring The Parish Church Of Rye, East Sussex | Dedicated To St Mary The Virgin
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Explore With Us The Beautiful Parish Church Of Rye, East Sussex | Dedicated To St Mary The Virgin
This incredible ancient place of worship was once dubbed ‘The Cathedral of East Sussex’, it has some interesting stories attached to it, and you can even climb the church tower to view the incredible views across Rye.
We plan to do that in this video, and explore a few of those interesting stories too, so please keep watching as its a stunning place to visit.
St Mary’s church is a cruciform building. Its chancel, the crossing, transepts and the nave were built from 1150 to 1180. With money from the Abbey of Fecamp in Normandy, who held Rye as a royal deed of gift until 1247.
Alterations were made in the 15th century as was typical for most churches across the British Isles. The North and South aisles were added during the late 12th century., The North and South chapels between 1220-1250.
This church was the victim of looting during Napoleonic times, During this severe raid by French marauders, the entire town and this parish church were robbed, and its bells stollen, the church was subsequently set on fire. The damage to the church was extensive, and the last repairs resulting from this fire were made in the 19th century. The following year a group of men from Rye and Winchelsea struck back and recovered the loot including the stolen bells. To deter potential invaders from any future attack one of the bells was hung in Watchbell Street.
There has also been a murder here too, In 1742 the churchyard was the site of this crime. A butcher called John Breeds planned to murder the towns mayor instead he accidentally murdered a man called Allen Grebell. John did not escape retribution and was hanged and gibbeted. His skull, which is the only thing that remains of him, was brought to the town hall and remains there to this day. Both the victim and murderer are still said to haunt the churchyard.
We are going to head upwards now, and climb the church tower, where we will share with you those wonderful views across Rye.
It’s a wonderful place to end this video too, until then Yhana and I would like to thank everyone for joining us and your continued support.
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This was our third and final video from here in Rye, East Sussex, and we hope you all enjoyed our exploration of this fascinating town.
Until next time, stay safe, keep well and bye for now.
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We enjoy exploring old churches. So neat to think about the generations of people who came to worship.
Murder, history, haunting! Love this little church. A great share Stephen and Yhana Thank you for taking us along. ❤
Great to see you and Yhana back, hope you're doing well! A lovely visit to the church of Rye, have passed by there a few times and meant to have popped in, looks a beautiful place. The church is very charming and it was great to see you be able to reach the top of the church tower, wow! another grand adventure, thank you for bringing us along and letting us see the history!
Very lovely video and amazing church, thanks for sharing 👍
Beautiful church and view from the tower, great memories 👌
❤ so happy to see you back ❤ what a stunning church and such interesting history
Wow! What stunning views from on top of that building! Just beautiful! Hope you guys are doing well! Glad to see you both!! 😃🙌🏼💯 Hello to Yhana! Have a fabulous day! 😃🙌🏼💯
Quite a mischievous history here but a beautiful church. Thanks for the tour!
Not a bad old church with a fascinating history. The views of the countryside are well worth it.
Lovely stone church Stephen. Amazing architecture. Some parts are quite narrow to walk though. So fascinating to see the church bells and beautiful view at the top. Thank you. 👍😊🇨🇦
Great to see you guys again, it brightens our day🙂❤
Great to see you back Stephen. I was looking for your email today as I was getting a bit concerned having not seen you around. Good to see you buddy 🙂👍
Hi Stephen a Yhana hope your both well! Stunning church many thanks for the walk around!
Wonderful sharing
Good to see you back ❤beautiful video guys 😊
Yes you’re back!!! We’ve missed you! Got some catching up to do! What a beautiful day and a lovely place. It’s a stunning church. Great sorry about the accidental murder! I bet that churchyard is creepy at night! Wow the views from the top are amazing. So lovely to see you back again. Cheers 🍻
We're so glad to see you posting again! As always this was a great video!
Hi guys, glad to see you had another video out. We just love those old churches. It is even better when they let you climb up the bell tower.
Hey Stephen. Nice to see you uploading again. Missed your morbid historical documentaries, like the witches 👍
That was a lovely church nice to see u back again xxxx
Thank you, the church is certainly very lovely ☺️
So good to see you both back! Was wondering where you had both gone. Great video and explore. Take care both, Paul.
Nice upload after your absence. I mentioned previously that Rye was a favourite of ours. The access to the church tower looks a bit tighter than I remember. On our last visit we skipped the climb. Interesting tales of past events once more. Hope you are both well and have had a great start to the year.
Welcome back. I’ve missed you. 😊
Thank you Lisa, Yhana and I send our best and catch up soon ❤️😊
Hello my friend. It’s been a while. Glad you are back. Keep up the great videos
Thank you very kindly 😊😊
Hi. I haven’t seen your videos popping up for a while. I’ll need to catch this one later though. It’s looking and sounding good. Catch you later buddy!
Thank you Terry, sending our best and catch up soon 😊😊
Hey guys, good to see your new video now, i was off for too long :)
Thank you guys, sending our best 😊
Hi Stephen and Yhana,
Your selection of music is heartfelt.
Actual church bells remain secured. 4:07 innocent church bell sounds kept silent here.
Above the church bells, what was hidden.... this magnificent view of the town. 5:25 Cloudless sky blind my eyes.
The sad history lies over this town. If I hear church bells now, it will gives me goosebumps.
BTW, I hope I am wrong but I heard the winds from time to time while you were on the roof.
OMG, you two have nice suntans on you. Welcome back and hope you all doing well. Yhana has grown so much and is about ready for college?
I am about back from a couple month work of all income tax prep and took it to my accountant. Phew. Apologies for my belated response.