I thoroughly enjoyed that tour, Allan. A couple of times, I closed my eyes to listen and contemplated if they were the same sounds someone heard standing there 800 years ago. That thought gives me great comfort.
I loved everything about this video. The tour of the area, the quietness and sounds of nature and birds, the moss on the trees, the church, the hills. Fantastic.
I am humbled at the thought of a thousand year presence in that place. What a glorious little building packed to the rafters with history, both ancient and modern (no doubt). As ever, thank you, Allan, for taking us with you.
An exquisitely shot video and another ravishing church explored. Wonderful Yorkshire; I did enjoy the - hopefully acceptable - joke from the height of the Covid lockdown; God was seen out walking in Yorkshire - asked what He was doing there, He replied “working from home.”
You are correct about the quarrying, it’s how the cave was opened up. It’s size was reduced by the quarry so it’s not representative of its form when the hyenas were there! My father was a scout leader in Middlesbrough and the fields next to the minster were used as the camp site back in the 60s. Scouts used to go caving in the caves as sport, and of course ghost hunting in the Minster and churchyard. Simpler times!
I'm not a particularly religious person - but every time I set foot inside a church, especially an old church, I feel immediately at peace, as if a duvet of safety and security has wrapped itself around me. I don't know how, or why, I know - only that I know. But in that place of peace, knowing is enough.
Such a therapy to the mind. The quietude, the dulcet tone of explanation and discovery, the birdsong, the peace, the history. It’s a panacea to the soul and a banquet of knowledge .
Thank you for this thoughtful tour, and how wonderful that there's an actual name attached to the rebuilding of St Gregory's. Orm son of Gamal did himself proud with the beautiful simplicity. The atmosphere around the place brought me back to a visit I made to the Chysauster Iron Age village in Cornwall. Remote, quiet, a bit misty, and no one else to be seen. Truly felt like I'd traveled back 2,000 years. Same here -- the mists of time.
I love this church - I’m privileged to worship here when I can escape from my benefice just a little further towards Scarborough on the A170. So glad that you enjoyed it.
What a magical and beautiful site! Thank you for sharing this lovely tour with us. I love hearing the song birds, rustling trees, and the flowing river. Then seeing the church and graves tucked into emerald green grasses was just delightful! I feel the souls are resting in peace in this beautiful comforting site.
Very enjoyable and illuminating. Your slow and steady camara work is to be commended. Allows time for the viewer to take things in and get the feeling of being there. Thank you.
👩🏻💻It looks like the church is used quite regularly. Beautiful fittings, the organ, just lovely. The countryside tour was wonderful, the mists, and seeing how people supported themselves a 1,000 years ago. How enjoyable. Thank you.🙋♀️🥰🇺🇲🇬🇧
Allan, What an elegiac video. Both luminous and numenous at the same time. The site must be one of great prehistoric antiquity, and it seemed to me that some of the dressed stones in the 11th century structure might have come from a Roman Villa. The villa at Beadlam, discovered in the 1960's, is only about a mile and a half from St. Gregory's, and might have been a nearby source of building material. The sundial and the dedicatory inscription are exquisite. The Latin is quite readable and is written in a fine late Romano British letter form. This is one of your best. Congratulations from our mountain in the Hudson Valley.
Superb. Thank you. Such a sensitive, respectful and informed view of a place almost legendary in appearance, and on such a perfect day for it. Glad you had a good night's sleep, as well. Even that fit.
Wonderful video,dont change the way you make them, no drones, no mood music, waiting for your commentary on Old All Saints church in Shelton-in-Cleveland NYS .:)
Deeply fascinating ramble Allan. The fact that this place has been used for Christian worship for more than a thousand years is extraordinary. It has a real presence amongst the gnarled trees and the medieval furrows. I rather like your green hat too!
What a wonderful place! The whole little valley is so peaceful. To think how many people have walked through Orm’s door and of the history that’s been witnessed there.Thanks for the tour!
Thank you, loved it from start to finish. I’ve even heard what a babbling Brook sounds like. Hard to imagine a church ⛪️ , still being used for worship , having been there so long. What a marvellous feeling 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺
A great tour of church and landscape. Between your visits and Ben Maton's organ expeditions around Salisbury and Wiltshire, I certainly get a beautiful journey through the British landscape each Sunday.
As beautiful as the area is, I couldn’t help wondering how it looks when those gorgeous trees silhouetted against the sky, would look when leafed out…Lovely tour, Thank you!
Afternoon Allan thanks for taking us on a lovely tour of Kirkdale and beautiful church. Looking @ the pews & other woodwork it seems the church is still in use today the pipe organ must have a lovely sound
What a magical fairy land! So beautiful! Thank you so much, Allan - grateful! (and gosh, I would love to walk my dogs there!) Canada is a beautiful place, but it doesn't have the same atmosphere as the UK. There is a quaint kind of moody atmosphere in the lovely hills and dales of the UK, that we don't have. You live in a wonderland!
Such a lovely area and I so appreciate the Minster and its grounds. So many reminders saved there from the ages before us. An acquaintance lives nearby and rides her horses on the path alongside St. Gregory's. She films as she rides so I feel as if I know this area even tho' I'm in Texas, USA.
What baffles me is in medieval times where did the priest live ? was there a small monastic comunity ? or just one priest and his house ? Love the vids by the way 👍
I think here there must have been a small community of clergy in the late Saxon period - the sundial names two priests who carved it. They probably had a dwelling next to the church on in the churchyard. The parish here is enormous, lots of little hamlets served by this one parish church.
Lovely video of this historic church. We've never visited Kirkdale, though my wife and I are very familiar with North Yorkshire, particularly the Dales National Park, where we've found a number of similarly ancient churches hidden away in tiny places. The church at Hubberholme, with its saxon Lady Chapel which was the original church, and the saxon church at Coniston (near Kilnsey) spring immediately to mind. I'm not a religious man by any means, but these buildings fascinate and delight me because they are our nation's history, and wonderful peaceful spots that anyone can enjoy. Subscribed ! 😊 Just realised that we've driven past Kirkdale on our way from Helmsley to Pickering.
Kirkdale is well worth a visit, if you get a chance! Churches do hold our national history in a way that other buildings and monuments cannot, don't they. Therein lies much of my love for and fascination with them. Thanks for the subscription! 😊
@@allanbarton Indeed, unlike many other buildings, most churches have survived largely unchanged since the middle ages. I'm reminded of St. Mary's Church in Thirsk, which still has its original door dating from 1465 along with its hinges, no doubt made by a local blacksmith. You can see and touch the marks made by the craftsmen and marvel at the skill needed to create a half ton oak door, then hang it so perfectly that you can move it with one finger. It's like reaching back through time and you can almost smell the sweat !
The memorial to 'Lord of the Manor Sir Gervase Beckett d 1937', suggests descendants of the Normans who stole the land back then were still there 900 years later.
Interesting! Thank you. Orm was a name, back then. Today it translates Snake (in Swedish). Gamal is interesting too. Add an additional "m" and you have Gammal today. It means Old, in Swedish.
Hi Alan, had a look on google earth and wonder if you were in a tent as I couldn’t find accommodation nearby at least that would give a view of the church. Kirbymoorside isn’t too far from us so an overnight might be just the ticket.
Eugenia, I hadn't heard the expression landsakes before. I had to look it up. It was early in the morning, about 7.30am when I recorded this and the birds where very lively.
I thoroughly enjoyed that tour, Allan. A couple of times, I closed my eyes to listen and contemplated if they were the same sounds someone heard standing there 800 years ago. That thought gives me great comfort.
I bet they are just the same sounds Trish, the place has such a timeless air.
I was thinking the same thing. What a beautiful peaceful place.
Totally agree..what an amazing trip back in history!
Magical.
Yes, I thought the same.
Pure enchantment! Nothing has changed for centuries. How else would most of us see these special places if you didn’t take us? So very appreciated.
It's a great privilege to be able to share such treasures in this way, very glad it's valued!
I loved everything about this video. The tour of the area, the quietness and sounds of nature and birds, the moss on the trees, the church, the hills. Fantastic.
Good to know it's so appreciated! Thanks for watching.
I am humbled at the thought of a thousand year presence in that place. What a glorious little building packed to the rafters with history, both ancient and modern (no doubt). As ever, thank you, Allan, for taking us with you.
Glad to be able to share it!
An exquisitely shot video and another ravishing church explored. Wonderful Yorkshire; I did enjoy the - hopefully acceptable - joke from the height of the Covid lockdown; God was seen out walking in Yorkshire - asked what He was doing there, He replied “working from home.”
😆 Joke accepted here! Glad you enjoyed the tour.
You are correct about the quarrying, it’s how the cave was opened up. It’s size was reduced by the quarry so it’s not representative of its form when the hyenas were there! My father was a scout leader in Middlesbrough and the fields next to the minster were used as the camp site back in the 60s. Scouts used to go caving in the caves as sport, and of course ghost hunting in the Minster and churchyard. Simpler times!
Thanks for sharing! It must have been a wonderful experience for the scouts!
I'm not a particularly religious person - but every time I set foot inside a church, especially an old church, I feel immediately at peace, as if a duvet of safety and security has wrapped itself around me. I don't know how, or why, I know - only that I know. But in that place of peace, knowing is enough.
Such a therapy to the mind. The quietude, the dulcet tone of explanation and discovery, the birdsong, the peace, the history. It’s a panacea to the soul and a banquet of knowledge .
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!
Thank you for this thoughtful tour, and how wonderful that there's an actual name attached to the rebuilding of St Gregory's. Orm son of Gamal did himself proud with the beautiful simplicity. The atmosphere around the place brought me back to a visit I made to the Chysauster Iron Age village in Cornwall. Remote, quiet, a bit misty, and no one else to be seen. Truly felt like I'd traveled back 2,000 years. Same here -- the mists of time.
I love this church - I’m privileged to worship here when I can escape from my benefice just a little further towards Scarborough on the A170. So glad that you enjoyed it.
How wonderful. I can just imagine the feelings that would be in that church. So many years of prayer in the walls almost, how lucky you are. 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺
What a magical and beautiful site! Thank you for sharing this lovely tour with us. I love hearing the song birds, rustling trees, and the flowing river. Then seeing the church and graves tucked into emerald green grasses was just delightful! I feel the souls are resting in peace in this beautiful comforting site.
That beautiful first 30 seconds of quiet rural England ❤
This is the "real " English Countryside! Beautiful!😊
It's a very special place, glad you enjoyed the visit!
Perfect for Samhain!! The sounds, the church graveyard, everything, especially
the owl. The Minster is awe inspiring.
It is! Glad you enjoyed the tour.
Very enjoyable and illuminating. Your slow and steady camara work is to be commended. Allows time for the viewer to take things in and get the feeling of being there. Thank you.
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it.
Love this tiny little bit of local history. Thank you so much for braving the early morning mist before tea for us.
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it!
👩🏻💻It looks like the church is used quite regularly. Beautiful fittings, the organ, just lovely. The countryside tour was wonderful, the mists, and seeing how people supported themselves a 1,000 years ago. How enjoyable. Thank you.🙋♀️🥰🇺🇲🇬🇧
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it!
Allan, What an elegiac video. Both luminous and numenous at the same time. The site must be one of great prehistoric antiquity, and it seemed to me that some of the dressed stones in the 11th century structure might have come from a Roman Villa. The villa at Beadlam, discovered in the 1960's, is only about a mile and a half from St. Gregory's, and might have been a nearby source of building material. The sundial and the dedicatory inscription are exquisite. The Latin is quite readable and is written in a fine late Romano British letter form. This is one of your best. Congratulations from our mountain in the Hudson Valley.
I watch another youtuber who lives near there and rides her horses by this church quite often. Such a lovely little church!
Another great visit!! Thank you for sharing these Dr. Means so much to me, as I am a recluse. ❤😊
Glad you're enjoying the tours!
Superb. Thank you. Such a sensitive, respectful and informed view of a place almost legendary in appearance, and on such a perfect day for it. Glad you had a good night's sleep, as well. Even that fit.
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed the tour!
"Oh, to be in England now that April's here!" It has been too many years since I have been there.
You are very adept at setting the mood in your videos. I enjoyed the sights and sounds in this one, and can imagine the damp scent of the fields.
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it.
Amazingly beautiful church and natural setting. Thanks again for taking us along for the trip.
It's a privilege to be able to share such places in this way, wonderful to know it's so appreciated !
Wonderful video,dont change the way you make them, no drones, no mood music, waiting for your commentary on Old All Saints church in Shelton-in-Cleveland NYS .:)
Such a beautiful, ancient and well preserved little church! Greatly enjoyed the countryside walkabout as well. Thank you for your effort.
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!
Deeply fascinating ramble Allan. The fact that this place has been used for Christian worship for more than a thousand years is extraordinary. It has a real presence amongst the gnarled trees and the medieval furrows. I rather like your green hat too!
Thanks 😆. Glad you enjoyed the video!
So very lovely! Thank you, Allan, for taking us along with you to this serene and very resonant place.
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!
Wonderful Alan. Loved the little tour. Some excellent birds as well. 🌟
The birds were marvellous. Glad you enjoyed the tour!
What an outstanding location! Your film work was superb as always Allan. Truly a holy place. ❤
It is a very special place, I'm glad you enjoyed the tour!
What a wonderful place! The whole little valley is so peaceful. To think how many people have walked through Orm’s door and of the history that’s been witnessed there.Thanks for the tour!
Such a peaceful little church, thank you for the tour.
My pleasure Josephine.
Thank you, loved it from start to finish. I’ve even heard what a babbling Brook sounds like. Hard to imagine a church ⛪️ , still being used for worship , having been there so long. What a marvellous feeling 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺
It is a magical place! Glad you enjoyed the tour.
A great tour of church and landscape. Between your visits and Ben Maton's organ expeditions around Salisbury and Wiltshire, I certainly get a beautiful journey through the British landscape each Sunday.
As beautiful as the area is, I couldn’t help wondering how it looks when those gorgeous trees silhouetted against the sky, would look when leafed out…Lovely tour, Thank you!
Going out to record this wonderful video before you had a cup of tea(!) shows the dedication you have to your art. Greatly appreciated, thank you.
I was so excited to be here that I didn't need the caffeine. I did have a cuppa once I'd finished recording.
Absolutely lovely, I watched this again as I was falling asleep, so relaxing and beautiful! And the Birds!!! Thank you!
Thanks Ellen, I have to say it is such a peacful spot that being there made me feel asleep pretty well.
Thanks ever so much. I needed this today. Much appreciated and highly regarded. Blessings to you.
Lovely tour of a lovely kirk in my favorite part of the world. Thank you!
I hound your channel quite by accident a few months back, and I’m so glad I did! Thank you for taking us along.
Glad you're enjoying my videos!
Afternoon Allan thanks for taking us on a lovely tour of Kirkdale and beautiful church. Looking @ the pews & other woodwork it seems the church is still in use today the pipe organ must have a lovely sound
It is in use and very much loved so I understand. A great place of pilgrimage.
I enjoy your films. You are so knowledgeable and present so well. Thank you. 🇦🇺🙏🇦🇺
Thank you very much, glad you enjoy my channel!
What a magical fairy land! So beautiful! Thank you so much, Allan - grateful! (and gosh, I would love to walk my dogs there!) Canada is a beautiful place, but it doesn't have the same atmosphere as the UK. There is a quaint kind of moody atmosphere in the lovely hills and dales of the UK, that we don't have. You live in a wonderland!
My work doesn't allow me to take it for granted! Glad to be able to share it in this way.
This tour was so amazing yet so tranquil. Thanks so much for sharing! ❤
Beautiful church and glorious countryside. Thanks for sharing this!
My pleasure, thanks for watching!
This was a different sort of tour for you, I enjoyed it. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching.
Thank you for posting free videos for people who can't afford to join. ❤
Most of my videos are free and will definitely remain so.
That's super lovely, I miss living in Scotland/UK, so much history that is preserved
Wow 1000 years ! That’s incredible. Thank you 🙏🏼
I love the birds that nest around churches.
A beautiful building and it was lovely to see you as well as well as hear your very pleasant voice!
Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed it!
What a beautiful place, so tranquil.
The bird song is fabulous there.
I found this tour to be especially enjoyable. Thank you. ❤
Thank you Shirley.
@@allanbarton ❤️
Beautiful! Thank you sir for the share.
My pleasure, thanks for watching!
Lovely I have always loved Yorkshire esp North Yorks. I went to college in York. What a delightful minster... Also ridge and furrow.
Me too, I feel very at home here. Like you I was at university in York.
Incredible...the sense of 1000 years remains. Thanks for your dedication 🙏
An absolute pleasure, glad you enjoyed it!
thank you for the tour.
My pleasure, thanks for watching!
Very interesting. I also enjoy the sounds of nature in your videos. They make me feel as if I were there.❤❤❤
Glad to hear that
Atmospheric and wonderful. Thank you for filming.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching.
A very, very nice spot. I bet it'll look even better once those trees grow back. Really enjoy your videos.
It's like a lost world. Glad you are enjoying my channel!
I really like those little churches. Thank you for bringing us there. I like it a lot artha
My pleasure, glad you're enjoying the tours!
Thanks for taking us for a walk Allan
Glad you enjoyed it!
So very very peaceful inside. I really think my prayers would be heard in such a place. I have to visit.
There is such a depth to the place, yes agreed a place where prayer is heard.
I wonder how many faithful have passed through those doors? If only they could speak! Great video Allan!
So many over the years, it is astonishing.
Such a lovely area and I so appreciate the Minster and its grounds. So many reminders saved there from the ages before us. An acquaintance lives nearby and rides her horses on the path alongside St. Gregory's. She films as she rides so I feel as if I know this area even tho' I'm in Texas, USA.
Thanks for sharing! It is a magical place.
Beautiful.
What baffles me is in medieval times where did the priest live ?
was there a small monastic comunity ? or just one priest and his house ?
Love the vids by the way 👍
I think here there must have been a small community of clergy in the late Saxon period - the sundial names two priests who carved it. They probably had a dwelling next to the church on in the churchyard. The parish here is enormous, lots of little hamlets served by this one parish church.
Wonderful to see these places that I cannot get to from Peterborough!
Very glad to share them like this!
Great tour, thanks. Not living in the UK anymore I appreciate the history of it all.
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!
A BEAUTIFUL church located in ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS surroundings!!👍❤💗🦉🐦
Absolutely right! Glad you enjoyed the visit 😊
Lovely video of this historic church. We've never visited Kirkdale, though my wife and I are very familiar with North Yorkshire, particularly the Dales National Park, where we've found a number of similarly ancient churches hidden away in tiny places. The church at Hubberholme, with its saxon Lady Chapel which was the original church, and the saxon church at Coniston (near Kilnsey) spring immediately to mind.
I'm not a religious man by any means, but these buildings fascinate and delight me because they are our nation's history, and wonderful peaceful spots that anyone can enjoy.
Subscribed ! 😊
Just realised that we've driven past Kirkdale on our way from Helmsley to Pickering.
Kirkdale is well worth a visit, if you get a chance!
Churches do hold our national history in a way that other buildings and monuments cannot, don't they. Therein lies much of my love for and fascination with them.
Thanks for the subscription! 😊
@@allanbarton Indeed, unlike many other buildings, most churches have survived largely unchanged since the middle ages. I'm reminded of St. Mary's Church in Thirsk, which still has its original door dating from 1465 along with its hinges, no doubt made by a local blacksmith. You can see and touch the marks made by the craftsmen and marvel at the skill needed to create a half ton oak door, then hang it so perfectly that you can move it with one finger. It's like reaching back through time and you can almost smell the sweat !
Unspoiled, what a beauty!
This is why I love your channel. America doesn't have beautiful churches like England!!! ❤
Glad you're enjoying my channel!
Another fascinating video I loved the background noise of the forest !
Glad you enjoyed the tour!
Interesting that the side wall of the porch isn't square/vertical but the aperture with the gate is. I wonder why they did that?
The memorial to 'Lord of the Manor Sir Gervase Beckett d 1937', suggests descendants of the Normans who stole the land back then were still there 900 years later.
Interesting! Thank you. Orm was a name, back then. Today it translates Snake (in Swedish). Gamal is interesting too. Add an additional "m" and you have Gammal today. It means Old, in Swedish.
Thanks very much for sharing this, your linguistic understanding of these words sheds further light on this inscription for us!
I enjoyed seeing the carved stones, this place is in a beautiful setting too, great video
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it!
Love the birdsong. Sounds like they're having a discussion about you.
😆 they were very talkative!
Bless you for bringing these glorious churches to your American cousins!
My pleasure.
Awesome vid. Makes me want to visit the UK…. Yorkshire. Reminds me of the Bronte sisters. Please do a vid on the moors and Haworth.
Simply a deep Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
Very enjoyable! ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
How wonderful!
One of the best places in the world!
What a stunning place!
Hi Alan, had a look on google earth and wonder if you were in a tent as I couldn’t find accommodation nearby at least that would give a view of the church. Kirbymoorside isn’t too far from us so an overnight might be just the ticket.
My car is converted into a mini camper.
That explains it!
Your videos are such a welcome respite from the horrors of today. Thank you so much. A small question: Where is the wonderful intro music?
Utterly beautiful
Loved it. Thank you.
Thanks Diane, it is a very special and atmospheric place.
how it managed to survive the Normans is remarkable
Wow what a beautiful place can see the tower is the oldest part. Would query how a hippopotamus got in that small cave opening
In pieces, thanks to the hyenas whose den it was apparently 😐.
What are the polecat the end of the pews with metal on top?
Landsakes, that owl!
Eugenia, I hadn't heard the expression landsakes before. I had to look it up. It was early in the morning, about 7.30am when I recorded this and the birds where very lively.
That was so lovely and interesting to watch. I think I may try to visit Kirkdale and St Gregory's one day. Did you camp next to the church?
I did, but don't tell anybody!
What a wonderful place. So peaceful.
Really peaceful - I read afterwards that the place is a bit of a hotspot for ghost hunting. Hmm, I had a peaceful night's sleep here!
Very very atmospheric
Beard is looking better Allan. You were lookin like a grizzled biker there for awhile.
In some of my older videos I have long hair and longer beard, it all got the chop about nine months ago, 'twas driving me nuts.
My family has a burial plot here…the place is magical!
It really is!
Nice place,Allan
A very special place.