'Like A Ship in Full Sail' - a tour of the church of All Saints in Saltfleetby, Lincolnshire.
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2024
- Let me take you on a tour of the church of All Saints in Saltfleetby All Saints. Saltfleetby (pronounced 'Sollerby' by locals) lies a couple of miles from the sea in the Lincolnshire marsh, an area that was extremely rich in the Middle Ages through the trade of salt and wool. There are many very large, fine, and virtually untouched churches in this area. All Saints, with its leaning tower, looks like a ship in full sail as its silhouette appears on the skyline and is among the finest of the group. An interesting fabric and an atmospheric interior, with fine medieval roofs and lots of original medieval furnishings.
I love these videos and I feel a spiritual connection to them when you tour them. I imagine people coming to worship here hundreds of years ago. Thank you.
Loving it that this very old church has these thriving flowers and plants put there by contemporary worshippers
I'd love to see these old churches. 600 years ago my country (America) was just about to be discovered by Europeans.
Ring the bell! Amazing these beautiful churches.
Very interesting ramble through All Saints Saltfleetby Allan! I always enjoy the details you highlight. It is wonderful that this church remains so untouched and at least not vandalised. The mix of architectural styles over the centuries gives these churches such a lived in feel. And seeing so many chairs, I do hope it still attracts a decent congregation.
Someone putting historical context to my immense admiration for English church decoration is just wonderful. If you ever do a meet up for your followers Alan, it would be such a pleasure to tour these old churches with you.
Those two little chairs in the back corners of the chancel look to very detailed, ornate.
Very nice to see inside this church. Have passed it a few times but, as yet, not had a closer look. Particularly enjoy your close examination and historic detail.
I learn so much in each of your videos! Each one that I’ve watched has been a treasure. What is your intro/outro music? Who composed it? As a professional musician and a big fan of Medieval and Renaissance music I was captivated by it the first time I heard it. 😊🎵
I love seeing the Rood Screens still there. Thank you 🙏
Another great video, thanks
Thank you.
What a video Barton! Beautiful! Oh, that ceiling and roof!
It's a great church! Glad you enjoyed the tour. Thanks for watching!
Greetings from Dublin Ireland. Thanks for sharing this video.
Just a thought Allan, would you consider adding subtitles please. They are a great help to all hard of hearing and deaf viewers.
Thanks again
Jarlath
Hello Jariath, that's a good thought. I think UA-cam should autogenerate them - I will check.
Thank you Alan. So very interesting. Loved the evidence of the paint and small portions of gold. And l imagine it in its original glory. The story of the Font quite captures the imagination of people trying to make the decision when they found the 14th century one. Incredibly amount of timber in the roof.
All very fascinating.
Nicely done sir.
A brilliant armchair visit to a remarkable church which happily escaped wholesale 'restoration'. The chancel arch capitals also look interesting and possibly reused. Excellent commentary, all the more endearing with memory lapses left in and corrected by captions. I shared your excitement when you entered the porch. After that the wonders kept coming.
Thank you, Philip - yes the chancel capitals are also Norman it seems, and reused in the 13th century - there are (I discovered after I shot the video) some other scraps of Norman work and an indent of a brass reused on the window sill, with some metal letters still in it. I need to return with my camera!
A late visitor, Allan, and I am struck by similarities of All Saints to St Mary's Church at Kirkburn, Yorkshire, further to the north near Driffield, .
There the font is early 12th century and there are many glories worth mentioning but not at this time.
I have visited it two times and immediately been struck by the feeling of warmth and peace on entering this place.
Perhaps you have been there, too.
(It is the baptismal church of my gg-grandfather in 1810 - some 12,000 miles from here :-)
Simply lovely and enchanting. I am amazed by the interior and how well it has been kept up. My favorite, those gorgeous windows and rosette frames. I envy you greatly having access to all of this.
Thank you so much! We are very blessed to have this history on our doorstep.
What an interesting church. I enjoyed the tour and commentary very much.
Beautiful content. I find it helpful to have a scattering of architectural terms to add to my vocabulary, as in your description of that handsome capital. So to know what kind of ceiling that is ie queen post I think - it all helps the details to stick! Many thanks.
Thanks, Cathy - I have to confess that roof structures never stick in my memory - hammer beams are one thing, but I get lost with King posts and Queen posts so thanks for telling me. I always get to the end of these videos and realise I've forgotten something, I find it fun to look at buildings blind without reading Pevsner too deeply.
I so enjoy your videos of the different churches. Could you tell us what the name of the tune you play before and after your videos is. I do love medieval music and would like to get a copy of it. Also, because it is Christmas I would like to give you a Christmas Blessing.....May you live as long as you want to; And may you want to as long as you live.......do you know what time period it is from? I will tell you It is a Tudor Christmas Blessing.
Could you do a video on Gothic architectural & aesthetic terminology when it comes to looking at this churches? I know there's plenty of stuff online to read on it, but no good UA-cam videos out there, as far as I'm aware
Thanks, Sebastian - I should do that. I do have a four-part course in preparation on the different terminology, but some short videos would really help.
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The folding chairs give such an impression of decline.
Well, it declined a long time ago - it has been redundant for fifty years. The whole area has a population a third of the size that it had when this church was built.
I would love to have seen the rood screen in it's full colour glory. I wonder if the side reredos nich may have been a lady altar, because over the entry is an "M" standing for "Mary"?
Why would the other church (the one the three bells came from.) been ruined by Ghost Hunters. Were there traditionally stories of ghosts there?
Once again, thank you for the tour!
It was likely an altar dedicated to Our Lady. Sadly with Skidbrooke church, a self-proclaimed ghost hunter in the 1980s wrote about his experiences in the church and that led to the decline of the church. It is tragic, I remember it with glass in its windows.
@allanbarton it's horrible what irresponsible people can do. I'm sorry that happened. Luckily, there are no ghost stories about my church.
I found this whole visit really interesting? I like the history of this church/chapel. Being Jewish myself we don’t have shul or temple’s that show all this history like is shown here.
Thank you - is that to do with your community moving around so much?
@@allanbarton yes, they are very international 😊
St Botolohs probably the most scary church in Lincolnshire
I remember it when it still had glass in the windows back in the kid 80s before kids wrecked it.
A mic with a wind cover only costs £40 and you can bluetooth it to your phone too .......
Old video, old equipment. Things have markedly improved since then!
Why no figurative painting in Lincolnshire?
I think the question needs turning on its head, why did screens in the far west and east Anglia have them, when the rest of the country did not? The answer is the same - we don't know and we are not entirely sure how images on screens really functioned.
The modern folding chairs do seem out of place at best
Is it a redundant church?The interior is spoilt by the motleycollection of chairs all over the place!
It is Elizabeth, redundant since the 1970s. So few people live around here now.
@@allanbartonthe number of redundant churches in the country is quite amazing,but it’s good that there are people who still care for themOur native parish churches really are absolute gems & should be treasured.
What a wonderful Church such a pity its so dirty They could a least put the chairs in some sort of order rather than the mess they'r i It looks as if nobody care such a shame