The Coronation Chair at Westminster Abbey
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2017
- Twenty-six monarchs including Her Majesty The Queen on 2nd June 1953 have been crowned in the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey.
The chair which was made about 1300 is the oldest piece of furniture in the UK still used for its original purpose.
In this video, step inside St George’s Chapel in Westminster Abbey where the chair is on public display. View the chair up close in detail and an artist’s impression of how it would have originally looked before centuries of wear and tear took their toll.
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Thanks to Stephen Conlin stephenconlin.com and Country Life Magazine for the Coronation Chair illustration. © Stephen Conlin
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Music: Zadok the Priest HWV258 by George Frideric Handel performed by Trinity College Choir Cambridge and the Academy of Ancient Music, conducted by Stephen Layton.
Courtesy of Hyperion Records Ltd, London.
I stayed for the choir singing.
Fascinating and beautifully shot, thank you. The chair is kept behind a protective screen so it is quite difficult to see at the Abbey.
stop it, you can't sit there, that's st edward's chair!
Coronation chair was used as inspiration for Dumbledore's chair in the great hall. Look it up, it's almost the exact same
Dafuq is a dumbledore...
For awhile this was on public display and the arms had been all carved up by Vandals.
We even got to sit in it.
@@annm.7176 Holy shit, when was this?
@@annm.7176 no way you lie i don't think anyone other than a king or queen got to sit on it for centuries
“People have carved their names on it!”
I saw the Coronation chair in the mid 80's when the stone was still there, and you could literally walk up and touch it (there was an overseer. so touching could get you a personal tour of the tower...). I made a comment to my friend about how disappointingly ugly it looked with all the graffiti and scratches. The overseer heard me and said, "Mam, we put a cushion on it for coronations." oh, then that's ok.......!
Interesting history.
I saw it in 86, with the Stone still there. You could walk past right in front of it.
Westminster Abbey- please explain why we’re not allowed to take pictures inside the Abbey.
We don't allow visitors to take photographs as we're a working church and we want visitors to be able to experience that atmosphere. Our full photography policy is online here alongside a number of images which you're welcome to download and use: www.westminster-abbey.org/visit-us/photo-gallery/
what are these scripts?
Can we visit this place and see this chair?
do they know who built the chair and where the wood came from? im glad Cromwell didnt chop it up for firewood. why dont they restore it?
Hi Kevin, you can find out more about the Chair here: www.westminster-abbey.org/about-the-abbey/history/the-coronation-chair#i17231
They go so fast. That you can't read it!grrrr
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Did Anne boleyn use the coronation chair?
No Ann Boleyn was consort, or the spouse of a monarch, and the Coronation Chair, aka St. Edward's Chair, is only to be used by a monarch. Also her coronation as consort was in the Tower of London not Westminster Abbey, where the Coronation Chair is kept.
Vandlized about 500 years ago?
Black Sun: And during the 19th century. Also damaged by a bomb attack the 11th June 1914.
The stolen Stone of Scone was recovered from Westminster Abby on Christmas Day 1950 ! On the Dead Sea Scroll's solar calendar, after the Vernal Equinox starting the next Biblical Year, it was placed on the altar in the ruins of Arbroath Abbey on the 11th April 1951.
With a 21st March Vernal Equinox that year, this means that the Stone of Scone was placed on the
altar of Arbroath Abby on the last seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread: a Holy High Day !
So in the same BIBLICAL year:
• 1951 was 3400 years and the 68th Jubilee after the Exodus from Egypt ! (Working with a 4BC birth of Christ)
• Before the next Vernal Equinox King George VI died on the 6th of February 1951.
• Queen Elizabeth II immediately ascended the throne - although only later coronated.
i.e. The Stone of Scone was recovered in the Jubilee 7x7 49th year of 1950, and later placed on the High Altar of Arbroath Abby on the seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread - in the Jubilee 50th year of 1951 !
The Declaration of Scottish Independence drafted at Arbroath Abby and dated the 6th April 1320, was also in the midst of the Feast of Unleavened Bread:
The vernal equinox was the 20th March that year and the 7th April was the 4th day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread that year: the day of Christ’s resurrection on the Biblical annual calendar.
So 631 years later (6+3+1=10), on the last 7th Day of Unleavened Bread, being a High Day, the Stone of Scone was placed on the High Alter in the ruins of that very same Arbroath Abby, wrapped in the “Saltire” or “Saint Andrews Cross” - the national flag of Scotland.
Saint Andrew was the brother of Peter, and also an apostle and disciple of Christ.
In the 1320 “Declaration of Arbroath” the Scott’s claimed to be Israelites who migrated from Egypt to Spain to Ireland and then to Scotland !
Legend has it that the Stone of Scone would sometimes groan when a king was crowned on it. It is now apparent that the Stone of Scone had a flaw in it. It had a faint fracture that could be the cause of the noise when some weightier kings were crowned sitting on it: the fracture gradually progressed further and further under the weight and hence the “groans”.
When it was removed from beneath the coronation throne in Westminster Abby on Christmas Day 1950, it finally broke into two pieces in the process.
The smaller piece was secretly returned to Scotland almost immediately and the larger piece was returned sometime later.
Once re-assembled and re-enforced into the semblance of one stone, it was placed on the alter as described above.
When it was later back in Westminster Abby, Queen Elisabeth II was coronated on a broken Stone of Scone - what is the significance and implication of that as we see history unfold ???. . ...
Prophet devid chair 😂😂😂😂