A Gilded Vision of Heaven - A Visit to Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire
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- Опубликовано: 28 дек 2023
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Join me as I visit Brant Broughton church in Lincolnshire, a very fine medieval church that was beautifully restored in the nineteenth century by a visionary Rector. The church is a jewel box, a glowing and gilded vision of heaven.
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Thank you for showing us such a rare jewel of a church. In the warmer weather one would like to stay locally for a little holiday and then spend every day going to this church, quietly praying one’s office, and carefully studying all the beauties of the exterior and interior. It would certainly fill the best part of a week and be a spiritually enriching solo retreat. You enrich our lives Mr Barton!
Thanks to the high-quality video I almost feel like I am standing there in the church myself!
What an amazing church. Thank you for this marvelous video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I think I love the carvings and mildly ominous ceiling best, but look at St. Nicholas in the font cone with his bucket of babies! You hardly ever see that nowadays. Very impressed with Canon Sutton's stained glass work, too.
Impressive! A life's work, it would seem.
Now THAT is how you renovate a church. 😍
Splendid !
what a splendid church! Thanks for your work.
What a glorious treasure! Thank you, Allan, for sharing it with us.
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
In this stunning case I say God bless the Victorians. Yes they presciptively bowdlerised so much that they deemed offensive and made many mistakes in how they rectified many older buildings, but in this case they got it all so very right. Thankee Allan for another wonderful and very interesting upload and Happy New Year for 2024 to everybody reading this from here in Aotearoa New Zealand. ✨
Thank you! So lovely. One Victorian intervention that enhanced rather than destroyed.
Yes indeed. Glad you appreciated it!
Beautiful Church , maybe the most beautiful I have ever seen. Maybe another visit will be in order.
That is so beautiful shows what's been lost to changes that happened in religious history
The suspense and wonder building up to the font and its cover was agonizing😂. Such a beautiful church. Thank you for the bonus content; happiest of holidays Dr.Barton👊🙏
This was a wonderful New Years’ gift. Many thanks!
Happy new year! Glad you enjoyed it.
Very interesting, another medieval gem! Thanks and Happy New Year! 🎆
Great episode as always Dr. Happy New Year 🎉😊❤
Truly stunning.
What a pleasant tour of a beautiful church. I have yet to be able to visit England so I appreciate your tours very much. Thank you!
Much obliged, glad you're enjoying the church videos! 😊
Wonderful. That may be one of the best examples I've ever seen of the Victorian neo-Gothic movement perfectly *enhancing* (instead of overwhelming) a medieval structure. Some of Pugin's work, or the some of the Oxford chapels, or say, even All Saints Maraget Street can sometimes feel a bit overdone in their decorative exuberance. I like the balance of exuberance and restraint here.
Great video. Thanks.
Lovely. Thank you for this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Beautiful! Makes me wonder if this was one of the East Anglian churches that Dorothy Sayres was thinking of when she described Fenchurch St. Paul in The Nine Tailors. That's the book that started me on a fascination with British ecclesiastical architecture more than 50 years ago. Maybe some day you can do an episode or two about church bells- I confess that I've never really understood the idea of change ringing, having never heard any examples here in the US.
Thanks for this. Lovely church
Glad you liked it!
Victorian restoration is very often derided, but this shows it at its very best. I am particularly impressed by the reconstruction of the chancel.
Thank you for introducing us to this treasure.
Just beautiful!
Glad you liked it!
Such a magnificent place. I visited it some years ago when I lived in Newark and I took quite a few photographs but they had run out of guidebooks unfortunately so I was unable to find out about the building. Thank you for bringing it to life and showing us the highlights.
Gorgeous. Thank you
Glad you appreciated this!
Excellent as always ...
Glad you enjoyed it!
I am on tenterhooks for your car to head off on the, what, thirty five minute drive from Brant Broughton to Stow Minster - a hidden marvel with the moniker of the ‘first Lincoln Cathedral’, as you know. Equally, if your car purrs back through Newark, the Chapter House at Southwell Minster never fails to delight. A mere ten minutes from Brant Broughton, the Pugin ceiling of Leadenham Church is marvellous (incidentally, my spell check just changed ‘Pugin’ to ‘Putin’ - a sad sign of the times!). Happy New Year - and thanks for your wonderful channel.
All quite wonderful places Charles, we are very blessed to live in Lincolnshire. Happy New Year.
@@allanbartonYes, indeed!
Thank you for sharing this. I do love the squatting man with his bottom showing. It's a wonderful piece of our shared humanity. We can only guess why the stone Mason chose to carve this character this way, but my gf a stone Mason left Scotland due to an oppressive religious society. He never stepped inside a church after he left Scotland.
It says alot.
Thank you, Allan!
You're very welcome, glad you enjoyed it!
Great videos Allan - very enjoyable - please keep them coming!
Thank goodness for Canon Sutton and the two men that he hired to restore this church! They truly had the proper vision to restore this Medieval church to its former glory. Unfortunately, a lot of Victorian era “restorations” were pretty terrible and would’ve horrified the original builders, congregants and religious leaders of that church. It’s so important to protect our architectural heritage through thoughtful and informed restorations. I’m in awe of both the original masons and craftspeople and those people who participated in the building and restoration process, especially because they didn’t have power tools or computer programs to do it.
What a magnificent building, and as ever your video whets the appetite, I wish I could travel to see these places, I would love to sit and look up at that ceiling - it made me think of Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem, 'The Starlit Night'. Thank you so much for your work.
Fabulous!
Glad you appreciated this 😊
Nice o see the Ukrainian flag, and know there are prayers offered for their deliverance in that beautiful ancient church.
What a beautiful church,& for once the Victorian “ restorers “ got it right!Amazing.
tyvm for another upload.
Thanks for watching!
That was an amazing church, that was equally well narrated. I am so glad I discovered this channel, and I put you one more subscription closer to 100k.
Thanks very much, I'm glad you liked this!
I so enjoy your videos because I feel like I have stepped into a world I’ve longed to know, but didn’t realize I was missing. Your use of intricate detail in your descriptions helps me really take in the surroundings of the churches. As well, getting to hear the extensive vocabulary within the descriptions of each of the pieces within the churches makes me feel as though I’m learning a great deal there, too!
Thank you and your family for spending your time visiting these churches and bringing their beauty and history to those of us all over the world who wouldn’t otherwise get to see them!
It's a privilege to be able to share these places, glad you are enjoying the tours!
Thank you.
You're welcome!
Beautiful! It would be nice if there was the interest and the funding to restore many of the deteriorating medieval churches in England as closely as possible to their original condition, particularly restoring structures and artwork that were destroyed during the English Reformation.
This is an historical gem of a church indeed. Spectacular craftsmanship! The rood screen is amazing. The high alter is absolutely glorious! It must have been an awe inspiring treat to walk through those doors and look upon every nook and revel in the splendor.
Thank you so much for sharing the exteriors and interiors of these amazing time capsules!!!
The carving of the man showing his buttocks for all to see through the centuries made me giggle at the thought of what the clergy would have said regarding such a carving when it was revealed. 😊😊
Brilliant. I love these tours. Just finished watching the documentary of the behind the scenes for the Coronation. I as wonderful seeing how it was all put together. Would love to hear your thoughts on it.
I watched it last night - it was fascinating to see - particularly to watch St Edward's crown being altered. I'm not sure I would have the nerve to saw through it.
Such a glorious church! Thank you for sharing. I hope you and yours had a Happy Christmas and much love and blessings for the New Year.
Canon Sutton - God reward you! This is just superb
Glad you enjoyed this!
Wonderful video, thank you!
Thanks
Thanks very much for your kind support!
A true jewel of a church Allan. I am so glad you ventured into it despite the heat. A sanctuary in all senses of the word. It is rare to see such a sympathetic restoration and enhancement of a 14th century church and the canon clearly had the means and connections to do it. We are all the better for it as it has many fine features. Many thanks Allan and wishing you and your family many blessings in 2024. And more rambles!
One of my favourite Victorian restorations!
Thanks for your well-wishes and a happy new year to you too!
Going home to Ireland now, Galway home town.
St Nicholas cathedral in city is purported to house the most western buried knights Templar.
Happy new year
What a BEAUTIFUL church!! ❤❤👍
Happy New Year, Allan!! 🎉🎊
Happy New year! Glad you liked this 😊
Hi Allan, thank you, for another wonderful video that features what I think is one of the finest Victorian interiors of any parish in England - and what a magnificent church it is too. I agree with you in that (more than any other church I've so far seen), that succeeds in capturing a genuine sense of authenticity, rather than a pastiche version of what the Victorians thought was 'medieval'.
Happy new year Allan. Thanks for the videos this past year.
Happy new year! Thanks for watching 😊
Amazing church,Happy new year, Allan
Happy new year! Glad you liked this 😊
What a beautiful church, enhanced (I feel, at least) by the 19th century chancel and decorations, and to think this gem is a ' humble' village chuch. Thank you, as always, for sharing this find with us! A very Happy New Year!
Many thanks for this magnificent effort channel master A.B. From what little information we get on this side of the pond (where the media and publishing class are either uninterested or hostile to Christianity, and now Judaism) we are led to believe local parish churches in England are empty museums. I hope that his Victorian jewel renovated masterpiece has an active, if small, regular congregation. A great shame if it does not have regular worship.
Much obliged! I'm glad to be able to share these places.
There are plenty of English parish churches still in use, I'm glad to report!
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A simply beautiful church. One wonders where the canon found the likely considerable sum to perform the restoration. I don't think there were tithes in the 1800s?
Catholics have the coolest Churches as this Church was Catholic first. The restoration is truly loving.
I live near St Margaret's Church in Lowestoft and the Ceiling is very simular to this one.
Bedankt
Thank you Martha.😀
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Hi , love your channel, I’m addicted to your excellent content, may I make a request on the history of Corfe castle? My favourite castle, your expert analysis on this monument would make my day 😊 all the best ❤
Thank you very much indeed. Corfe castle is on my itinerary for next summer, I look forward to filming there.
@@allanbarton fantastic, I can’t wait to see. I will send some cash to help with expenses 🤗
That is most kind of you, thank you.
Beautiful church. Just wondered about the figure of the guy showing off his derriere. Was that to warn off evil spirits?🤔😄
Lovely church and lovely video. I have to ask you though, what is the purpose of the rood screen other than to separate the clergy and higher classes from the ordinary people. I did a little research and learned that, after the Council of Trent they were removed from most Catholic churches but have continued to be used in protestant ones. Can you provide more explanation?
Hi another great video! I'm visiting Suffolk soon I have Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh on the list to visit do you have any recomendations of places to visit in that county? Thanks. Keep up the good work and the magazine is superb.
Why had the church been allowed to fall into decay in the 1850's? I was under the impression that this period in British history was marked by a devout population that spent a great deal of their daily lives active in their Parish Churches and in devotion and worship of God. Did this area see a drop in population or some other reason that drew away patronage, and thus, the care and maintenance of this wonderful worship space?
Sir did any other shrine other than that of St Edward the confessor survive the English reformation?
Wonderful architecture
Yes, just one - St Wite at Whitchurch Canonicorum in Dorset.
@@allanbarton Thank you for replying. Were the shrines of St Albans and amphibalus restored and do they contain any relics?
Hello Allan, I understand that this is not relevant to your current post, but I do not see any other way of contacting you. I have rewatched the Oliver Cromwell's head episode. Has there been any pressure to subject the skull to DNA testing? Does Cromwell have any living descendants to make a DNA comparison to?
I was wondering if the pronunciation of Broughton in this video is due to a local dialect? Friends with the surname pronounce it BRAWton. Thank you for your interesting videos.
Yes, southern Lincolnshire dialect. There is a place called Broughton in north Lincolnshire pronounced Brawton.
😊 wonderfully narrated love the bare bottom
Glad you enjoyed it!
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