Riding with the Knights Templar

Join me as I ride my motorcycle along a quiet Lincolnshire lane to seek out an architectural treasure with connections to the Knights Templar of the Middle Ages.
“There it is. That’s what I’ve come to see, the great tower of Temple Bruer, the preceptory of the crusader knights, known as the Knights Templar.”
The Templars were military monks who established a Europe-wide network of preceptories, which were religious houses from which they administered their estates and raised funds to support their crusader work in the Holy Land.
This surviving 13th century tower once formed part of a great Templar church, the most important outside London.
As one of the few Templar sites still to have standing remains it is a rare survivor.
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NOTE: the source of the computer-generated image of Temple Bruer in its heyday is Heritage Lincolnshire’s website www.heritageli...
It is highly likely that Lawrence of Arabia would have visited the tower. Under the pseudonym T. E. Shaw, he once worked at RAF Cranwell, a few miles down the road. Formerly an archaeologist and author of a book about crusader castles, he would surely have ridden his Brough Superior here.
(See an earlier video I made about T. E. Lawrence in Lincolnshire, entitled, rather long-windedly, "T. E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, aka T. E. Shaw races a Bristol Fighter on his Brough Superior." Link below.)
• T. E. Lawrence, Lawren...
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