Pembrokeshire Pilgrimage Ep2 - churches, cows, and country houses
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
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0:00 Introduction
0:37 Stackpole church
8:26 Walk through Stackpole Estate
10:07 History of Stackpole Court
12:22 Bosherton church
16:50 Walk around Castlemartin firing range
19:16 Warren church
23:55 Castlemartin church
30:50 Cow conundrums
32:51 post-scriptum
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Love that you've become comfortable with the camera that your sarcasm and dry wit shows through! Also I'm so jealous of the sunny day! It's raining again in Fife. The nature walk in the sun looks divine! Thanks for the video!!
Thank you. Yes I did feel as though I was getting increasingly comfortable. Probably also because I hadn't spoken to another person in several hours so I was treating the camera like my fellow pilgrimage companion. The weather was gorgeous, however, sadly it doesn't stay like this.
Thank you so much for these beautiful videos. I'm also from Suffolk, but have spent far too many decades abroad. Your wonderful work brings me home to the UK. Thank you so much.
I can't with the cows 😂great video! I love hearing about these old buildings!
The fornification in the church was magnificent
I love your channel. Visitng medieval churches was a favourite pastime when we lived in England. We are now in Scotland where there are hardly any. In case you come across one again, the temple was built by Solomon, King David's son.
What a wonderful video! Your work is absolutely stunning. You take me out of this worn torn world, back into history, into a time of beauty where art and architecture is such a wonder to behold, as you are. Don’t ever stop, keep on keepin’ on.
Thank you. My pilgrimage was like going back in time, I felt so deeply connected with nature and history on my journey, especially at this point where I had been distant from modernity for two days.
Hi Daniel! I just wanted to add my voice to the other encouraging comments. I really appreciate the technical and historical content, as well as your manner of presentation. Your slightly self-deprecating approach is really refreshing and lacks the stodginess of so many other "talking heads" on RUclips. I love it! Keep up the great work and best of luck with your remaining studies.
The best video yet! Thank you, Daniel, and I'm so glad you weren't mauled by those heifers! See you next week.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed. Personally, I do think each video is better than the last. So hopefully you'll like the next ones even more. Yes, it was a real relief to make it across those cow fields!!
Another enjoyable and informative tour, thanks! The word is "lych" gate, from the anglosaxon "lych", "corpse". The coffin would be placed under the canopy prior to burial.
German "Leichnam" and Dutch "lichaam."
Ah, that makes sense, that's a good etymology. Thank you.
@@greatbritisharchitecture In modern German, we have "Leiche", which means "corpse", but also (unlike "Leichnam") any old carcass or cadaver.
Queen Victoria was a big fan of Mendelssohn who called him "the greatest musical genius since Mozart." Victoria and Albert played his piano pieces and the Scottish Symphony is dedicated to the queen.
Ah well that is very fitting that his organ is at Warren and the stained glass window depicts balmoral at Castlemartin. Thank you.
As we travel along with you we get the immeasurable pleasure of hearing your scholarly impressions of each site. Thank you for including the Table of Kindred Nobility at Bosherton Church. It's an interesting detail oftentimes overlooked. So looking forward to Part 3. Onward!
You're welcome, I'm glad you enjoy hearing my insights. The table of kindred and affinity was the main reason why I visited Bosherton church and it was great to see one in person. Hopefully, the third episode will be uploaded next week.
So beautiful, thank you for all your efforts.
Love the video, would love to mountain bike this route and waiting for the next episode.
How wonderful your channel is !
thank you
Love what your doing, hope you keep doing
We have 35 cows and youngsters and a huge bull called Big Red! You’d not like it for sure. This was a great episode. Good job!
Yes I think that would be a step too far. I was really concerned that one of the cows was a bull because my options would have been getting trampled or throwing myself into a watery ditch! Anyway, thank you for watching and its great to hear you enjoyed
I was waiting for the pilgrimage ep2! Thank you for sharing your journey. There are amazing landscapes and churches. I like your attention to the details. I was so amazed to see the Mendelssohn organ! It is impressive. And you are right, Symphony No. 3 in A Minor known as Scottish was composed by Mendelssohn and inspired by his first visit in 1829.
I hope it was worth the wait. Sadly, this one took my longer to edit, but hopefully the next one will come next week.
Well that is good to know that I wasn't spreading false information about Mendelssohn. It was an incredible surprise, especially considering how much it moved around the country.
Thanks so much, I find the things that you talk about in your videos very interesting. Sadly I can be there but I do enjoy seeing everything through your eyes. 😃
You're welcome, glad to hear that you enjoyed watching and seeing these beautiful places.
Great presentation of such interesting material!
thank you
From the USA, thank you again for your very interesting and beautifully produced and presented work. I appreciate your candor and not over-editing over what you may see as glitches but which really, are a valuable sharing of the variety of experiences that always have been a part of the pilgrimage story. You may, as some of us will, wonder at your appreciation of the farmer's qualities, but then to compare yourself to the cludwyr hyfryd llafar a charedig o hanes y wlad, gwr ifanc anwyl, anturus.
You're welcome, it is my pleasure to share my pilgrimage. So, it is great to have so many people enjoy watching my rambles, both in terms of speech and walking! Yes, I had to leave the minor issues and trials in because, as you say, it wouldn't be the full true experience without them. Also, thank you for your kind Welsh words, reading the translation has certainly brightened my day, thank you
I really appreciate your videos! Your getting better & better!
Thank you. That's great to hear, as I personally do feel as though each of these episodes is better than the last.
Thank you so much. What a journey!
Thank you for watching, I hope you enjoyed.
I love your channel, you present in a charming way. These little gems you visit, are just those places that are so unknown to foreign visitor, or people like me, studied art/architectural history in Belgium but except some cathedral, manor houses and castles, i am totally not aquainted with the background of these placesyou pleasantly feature on your channel.
Thank you, that is very kind and encouraging to hear. Indeed, these are little hidden gems, which even locals probably don't known about. But the reason I love visiting places like this is they are all different, having their own unique history and stories attached.
Beautiful ❤
That ironwork under the lychgate was truly remarkable, specially with the little hands - I don't think I've ever seen anything like that before. Also the strange face carved on the north side of that church - quite sinister; it's typical of the many weird and sometimes very grotesque carvings to be found in so many old churches. They often don't seem to fit in with more recent ideas of Christianity, which is a reminder that medieval, specially early medieval, Christianity may have been different in some ways from our later imaginings. Sorry to hear about the electric fence - I too have had that delightful experience! I also once fell on a barbed wire fencein the Hebrides, and had to go off and get a tetanus injection. Such are the joys of country rambling nowadays - it's reminder to be be careful.
Beautiful!
I’m enjoying your tours, keep up the good work!
thank you, that is excellent to hear
The Decorated canopy in Stackpole reminds me of the stellate canopies in Bristol Cathedral and St Mary Redcliffe
Oh that is a good comparison and perhaps an indication that these were possible brought here by ship from Bristol, similar to the monuments and fonts from the West Country. I haven't been to Bristol but I have seen pictures so I can totally see your point. thank you
@@greatbritisharchitecture Thanks to its trading links, some of the late medieval decoration you find in Bristol is thought to be connected to Portuguese Manueline and, through that to Islamic Art. It’s not hard to detect once you see it, especially in St Mary’s.
32:04 Not quite "electrocuted" since you are alive to tell the tale 🤣 But you are right to be more scared of the electric fences than those beautiful, placid cows !
Very true, I meant electric shock, which really hurt. Next time, I will fear the fence rather than the cows.
@@greatbritisharchitecture Wonderful video, by the way. Keep up the good work!
Great video Daniel
thank you
Loved this episode for all your antics and the cows, Daniel... I've had similar confrontations, so I can relate! Looking forward to your next episode -- thanks for sharing your knowledge and adventures!
Thank you, I'm glad I am not the only one. It can be quite frightening at the time, but also sort of funny looking back because I now know they would do me no harm. Hopefully, the next episode will be read and uploaded next week.
A little tip re. Cows. They are basically harmless (including bullocks and bulls). They will not harm you/ trample you. They are merely curious and wary. If you shout at them and act aggressively towards them they will run off because they are SCARED OF YOU. Modern polite society is so risk-averse and scared of everything it is just pathetic. Best wishes
And the video sent me down the rabbit hole on lychgates.
What did you find down the Lynchgate rabbit hole?
@@greatbritisharchitecture just that they were used to shelter the dead before being buried and couples just married would have to bribe children to let them out of the church yard. I had no idea that they had any uses at all. They are also called lychgates, lichgates, resurrection gates, and lynchgates. “Lych” comes from Old English līc or corpse.
Oh and they are apparently also a thing in Texas.
Lychgate, without the 'n'. From the Old English 'lic' meaning corpse.
I'm frightened of cows, too! (Actually not totally without reason, as they can sometimes be dangerous, specially if they have young calves. Also I was once chased by a very angry bull, but that's another story! lol )
Exactly, I really didn’t want provoke them in case they got protective! Thankfully, that farmer kindly assisted me.
I hope that you like the way I used your wonderful music?
Yes - I thought it worked quite well. I will email some comments
Are you granted private access to these beautiful churches and chapels or are they open to the general public? I find your videos so detailed and interesting. Thanks.
So all the churches that I visited on my pilgrimage are open to the public and are free to visit. Of course, if you do visit then it is great to leave a donation to help keep these historic buildings open and in good condition. I am glad you find my videos to be interesting, thank you.
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Well done Daniel, a wonderful video so professional.
thank you
@@greatbritisharchitecture A work of scholarship, another Alec Clifton-Taylor, keep up the good work Sir.
Dear Dan what public school did you go too, two of my friends went to Eton and your diction speakes words.