Who in their right mind would cover up a historic artifact fireplace from the 1500s, neyond criminal. On the other hand kudos to the building team on a very fine build / restoration, great work indeed.
We have the same buildings in our medieval city. They are not the warehouses of the merchant, far too small for that, but the vault to store his valuables, his money, precious goods like jewelery and his books, and it's his panic room with some food to survive. a) a fire in the timberframed city, that's why they are build completley out of stone, b) an assault, robbery, thieves, a medieval city sometimes was target of that made it inside the city walls. It's typical for the 'Kemenate' to be attached to the representative main house, hidden behind, accessible only from the second floor (the doorway was not on the outside, there was a house directly in front of it). And it will still stand, if the main house burned down, and the thick walls would hopefully keep the merchant alive.
Stone was built over temporary wood because stone was more readily available than wood in some situations; a wooden structure required more metal either in preparing the wood or putting it together than stone and stone is less likely to burn than wood. So using stone isn't always done for security reasons.
What a beautiful little building it is at the end! How I would love to build a small home rather like this, with just a few more small windows to enjoy that forest view.
47:42 those joists wood parts inside of the wall look extraordinary well preserved. It is also remarkable that no dust or spider webs were found in that kind of hollow wall. In the other hand, this is a TV show and one must get views for it.
@@christianpatriot7439 I'm sure English Heritage would put restrictions all over the whole of the property now that is had been "discovered". So yes it will be Grade 1 listing but the owners won't be able to paint, hang a picture or even decorate without written consent and paying fees to have historians research what should be etc. Red tape all over it poor people.
@@christianpatriot7439 Yes, I have heard of this in the US. Nothing gets in the way of progress unfortunately. I say unfortunately, as the young United States history plus the thousands of years of the Native American tribes is erased.
It would not surprise me if they kept guard geese in the goods store downstairs at night. Geese cannot be bribed, have safety in numbers, and set up an almighty racket at the slightest disturbance.
The roof trusses are not unique to Pembrokeshire, I lived in a house in Herefordshire almost identical and recorded in the Doomesday book. Incredibly old tombers.
I am amazed that they are amazed that arches were used 500 years ago in Britain. The Romans built things like the aqueducts and colosseum up to two thousand years ago and they were multi-storied and much more sophisticated and as the Romans occupied Britain for 400 years , they probably taught the locals a thing or two about architecture ( The dome of the Pantheon in Rome was built 2000 years ago and until just a few decades ago was still the largest unsupported dome in the world. )
Makes you wonder how much more history is covered up like this all over England. One thing about America is that it's a young nation compared to the rest of the world. You won't find stuff like this here
Absolutely spellbinding documentary from the saving and the storage to the reconstruction. My only complaint would be that I feel they made the living quarters much too comfortable and attractive for a squalid workingman's family of the 15th century. I understand the need for the visitors' staircase, but feel it should have been safe, but utilitarian, with the ladder beside it to demonstrate the actual way the people entered. Realistically would there have been rushes on the floor? As for the balcony, I hope it was just for the opening ceremony and removed. I also question that a building that small and for a workman at that time would have had a garderobe, in the privy sense. But finding that fireplace was truly amazing and the timing almost unbelievable. Surely there are more architectural treasures hidden by other walls. Are they going to look one wonders.
The corruption of the church could NOT be any more perfectly displayed than in the Bishop's castle. The clergy were living high off the backs of the poor in their castles, massive land ownership, etc. It is truly disgusting.
The bishops or high clergy were non other than the younger sons of the nobility. The lower clergy were from the lower stratus and close to the poorer people and did not live in luxury.
Dumb question, I am sure. Since the roof timber structure echoes the vault, could the temporary vault support have been reused as the roof structure? At least could this have been an earlier practice that led to the style of the roof? Just a thought, as the timber was expensive and labor intensive if it could have worked it would make sense.
Sharing questions can make one wiser. 😉 There's an arch in both stone and wood, and its curve is the only reference. There's no shape - counter-shape to be seen, so the vault-support construction wasn't raised up and ready to support the roof. They might have re-used individual beams as parts of the roof structure. As to history: it looks like a cruck construction, where the bottom part has been replaced by stone walls, and the tie beam moved up to the place where there's no tension, nor compression.
Probably the expense of the re-build. You'd be looking at months of labour, and using the appropriate materials for the restoration, so this wasn't a cheap construction job.
Plus they needed a new location. So each of the four men kept doing their trades ect and the one with the beard found a site to place it so it will be preserved for all time.
Well he is “telling it straight” mate! He is a great orator and this is his manner and delivery. Nothing put on or acting about him. He is the real deal and a great teller of facts, skilled and eloquent!
Great and interesting content but much of the filming is so poor. Either too close or not directed at what is being discussed. Too much focus on the presenters’ faces instead of on the relevant material. Very disappointing.
Almost everywhere except America, ( why am I not surprised) the ground floor since Mediaeval times or before, was at street level and often commercial in nature, warehouses, merchants offices, shops etc, and the accommodation ( often 5 or 6 stories even in Ancient Roman times ) started above the ground floor on the one above, ie the first floor of living.
Who in their right mind would cover up a historic artifact fireplace from the 1500s, neyond criminal. On the other hand kudos to the building team on a very fine build / restoration, great work indeed.
Leave no stone unturned.
These series are amazing.
I love Charlie. What a soft spoken man
We have the same buildings in our medieval city. They are not the warehouses of the merchant, far too small for that, but the vault to store his valuables, his money, precious goods like jewelery and his books, and it's his panic room with some food to survive. a) a fire in the timberframed city, that's why they are build completley out of stone, b) an assault, robbery, thieves, a medieval city sometimes was target of that made it inside the city walls.
It's typical for the 'Kemenate' to be attached to the representative main house, hidden behind, accessible only from the second floor (the doorway was not on the outside, there was a house directly in front of it). And it will still stand, if the main house burned down, and the thick walls would hopefully keep the merchant alive.
Simply fantastic! Thanks a lot for making taping editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and health to all involved people.
What a great program. Thanks for posting and sharing.
Thank you for sharing this gem with us!
Wonderful to see the heritage being preserved.
Stone was built over temporary wood because stone was more readily available than wood in some situations; a wooden structure required more metal either in preparing the wood or putting it together than stone and stone is less likely to burn than wood. So using stone isn't always done for security reasons.
A truly beautiful restoration to preserve the past as a basis for future development of the nation character.
What a beautiful little building it is at the end! How I would love to build a small home rather like this, with just a few more small windows to enjoy that forest view.
Wonderful documentaries.
47:42 those joists wood parts inside of the wall look extraordinary well preserved. It is also remarkable that no dust or spider webs were found in that kind of hollow wall. In the other hand, this is a TV show and one must get views for it.
That hidden fireplace though. Chills
And also raised the market price of the house.
@@christianpatriot7439 I'm sure English Heritage would put restrictions all over the whole of the property now that is had been "discovered". So yes it will be Grade 1 listing but the owners won't be able to paint, hang a picture or even decorate without written consent and paying fees to have historians research what should be etc. Red tape all over it poor people.
@@suzannetodaro5494 In the U.S. you can pave over a cemetery to put in a road or parking lot.
@@christianpatriot7439 Yes, I have heard of this in the US. Nothing gets in the way of progress unfortunately. I say unfortunately, as the young United States history plus the thousands of years of the Native American tribes is erased.
Brilliant. Thank you.
I find medieval buildings so facinating ! It starts at 1:34
It would not surprise me if they kept guard geese in the goods store downstairs at night. Geese cannot be bribed, have safety in numbers, and set up an almighty racket at the slightest disturbance.
The roof trusses are not unique to Pembrokeshire, I lived in a house in Herefordshire almost identical and recorded in the Doomesday book. Incredibly old tombers.
The roof work seen at 52.00 is amazing!
I am amazed that they are amazed that arches were used 500 years ago in Britain. The Romans built things like the aqueducts and colosseum up to two thousand years ago and they were multi-storied and much more sophisticated and as the Romans occupied Britain for 400 years , they probably taught the locals a thing or two about architecture ( The dome of the Pantheon in Rome was built 2000 years ago and until just a few decades ago was still the largest unsupported dome in the world. )
Makes you wonder how much more history is covered up like this all over England. One thing about America is that it's a young nation compared to the rest of the world. You won't find stuff like this here
There are done really old cob buildings in the south, like Texas or New Mexico.
It's absolutely mind blowing to Americans.
What a fantastically interesting film.
Hope they restore that mantle
Thoroughly enjoyed that episode! I got too emotional when the Tudor fireplace was revealed! 😂
Me too. Cant believe someone would cover that up.
@@CatherineAragon1536 NEVER going to happen English Heritage will have taken over that whole apartment if not the complex.
Absolutely spellbinding documentary from the saving and the storage to the reconstruction. My only complaint would be that I feel they made the living quarters much too comfortable and attractive for a squalid workingman's family of the 15th century. I understand the need for the visitors' staircase, but feel it should have been safe, but utilitarian, with the ladder beside it to demonstrate the actual way the people entered. Realistically would there have been rushes on the floor? As for the balcony, I hope it was just for the opening ceremony and removed. I also question that a building that small and for a workman at that time would have had a garderobe, in the privy sense. But finding that fireplace was truly amazing and the timing almost unbelievable. Surely there are more architectural treasures hidden by other walls. Are they going to look one wonders.
Just wonderful. Thank you.
Why would someone want to cover up a historic fireplace like that?
nice work
Facinating
The corruption of the church could NOT be any more perfectly displayed than in the Bishop's castle. The clergy were living high off the backs of the poor in their castles, massive land ownership, etc. It is truly disgusting.
The bishops or high clergy were non other than the younger sons of the nobility. The lower clergy were from the lower stratus and close to the poorer people and did not live in luxury.
In Germany they put a small tree on the roof after it is finished for a day or two
Dumb question, I am sure. Since the roof timber structure echoes the vault, could the temporary vault support have been reused as the roof structure? At least could this have been an earlier practice that led to the style of the roof? Just a thought, as the timber was expensive and labor intensive if it could have worked it would make sense.
Sharing questions can make one wiser. 😉 There's an arch in both stone and wood, and its curve is the only reference. There's no shape - counter-shape to be seen, so the vault-support construction wasn't raised up and ready to support the roof. They might have re-used individual beams as parts of the roof structure. As to history: it looks like a cruck construction, where the bottom part has been replaced by stone walls, and the tie beam moved up to the place where there's no tension, nor compression.
@@peterslegers6121 Thanks, Peter.
There was never a "Tudor Britain"!
I kept waiting to learn why there was a 30 year lag between disassembly and rebuilding.
Probably the expense of the re-build. You'd be looking at months of labour, and using the appropriate materials for the restoration, so this wasn't a cheap construction job.
Plus they needed a new location. So each of the four men kept doing their trades ect and the one with the beard found a site to place it so it will be preserved for all time.
Who's the fool that put sheetrock over the fireplace?
what did the medieval window craftsmen use on glass seams,was it just poured lead? or a soft oil based ground pebbles & some kind of oil?
Lead. (I googled it lol)
How can anyone give a thumbs down?
That's because they were looking for kiddie cartoons, and also because they are uneducated.
I was up in my moms attic the other day an it looked like that slate roof.
Why is Dan whispering and over acting? Just tell it straight mate!!
Well he is “telling it straight” mate! He is a great orator and this is his manner and delivery. Nothing put on or acting about him. He is the real deal and a great teller of facts, skilled and eloquent!
Why is the presenter whispering outside in a field? Are the cows sleeping?
😂
It's Dan Cruikshank. He doesn't need to shout.
why knock it down in the first place...so a bunch of greedy gentrifiers and their overfed clients can have a fancy place to live?
Don't knock gentrifiers. They are saving our cities at least in the US
Storing ice
Great and interesting content but much of the filming is so poor. Either too close or not directed at what is being discussed. Too much focus on the presenters’ faces instead of on the relevant material. Very disappointing.
This is how buildings should be made. I wonder if these guys could be hired out of country to build superior homes?
so its a stash house then
Take me there 😊
The presenter's whispering is a bit irritating.
Try tartarian architecture makes more sense
That's some seriously messy stone work. More mortar than stone.
Why do they call the second floor the "first floor"?
Almost everywhere except America, ( why am I not surprised) the ground floor since Mediaeval times or before, was at street level and often commercial in nature, warehouses, merchants offices, shops etc, and the accommodation ( often 5 or 6 stories even in Ancient Roman times ) started above the ground floor on the one above, ie the first floor of living.
The old man looks like Palpatine
Christian Bales hometown.
Charlie Luxton is rather hot....
Mmmm-hmmm. 😎