The Secret Staircase.
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- Опубликовано: 21 мар 2024
- St Mary Le Strand #london
No - not that secret staircase ... the other secret staircase!
I can't think of a video I've been more excited to release.
This is a "50 Churches Act" church and that alone is fascinating enough...,
But then..., well there's Jacobin plots, Knight's templars, secret rooms and a secret staircase.
Thanks so much to Fr Peter Babington and Stewart Trotter - this was an unforgettable day.
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Glad I wasn't a Knights Templer. But fascinated to realise that Masonic handshakes were due to people being unable to read.
I think it definitely reflects a dearth of entertainment options. I think this sort of high-jinx might be impossible in the age of Assassins Creed and Netflix.
went there for an unplanned concert on the way home one evening. thought the ceiling looked ornate in a very plain church. 8.5 mil restoration will make for an expensive coffee shop
@johnrozee2648 I think I may have met you in the "expensive coffee shop" under St Martin's in the Field once upon a time - that turned out rather well as I recall.
@@hereticatious well, it's all right, but the seats are bloody uncomfortable
For some reason I had the idea that freemasonry had always been anti-Roman church. You live you learn.
I don't think you are wrong - a little after the St Mary le Strand was finished in the 1720's, the pope banned Freemasonry (from 1738 until 1983) - but I think a couple of things were in play - first the English situation made some strange bedfellows, second, in London at least Freemasonry didn't attack the monarchical and parochial constitution - and therefore wasn't so politically difficult to tolerate.
I have heard the view expressed by a number of vicars and C of E types that the Lutherans churches were very plain and therefore when the Hanoverian kings came, churches became plainer. I think it had more to do with the style of the times in England. As for the Lutheran churches being so plain, they have obviously never seen the Lutheran churches of Nuremberg or Saxony. They are anything but plain. Also in Westphalia one encounters beautiful triptych altars as in the St. Nicholas church in Bielefeld.
One of the things I'm finding out is that there's extraordinary beauty in all kinds of places presented in all kinds of (sometimes unexpected) ways.
Is this the de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altst%C3%A4dter_Nicolaikirche church your referring too. This altarpiece art-restauro.de/referenzen/altaere/spaetgotischer-antwerpener-schnitzaltar-nicolaikirche-bielefeld/ ?
Wow!
@@hereticatious Yes, that is the altar that I was referring to. I remember going to the church after Christmas when the entire altar piece was exposed and on top of that there were two beautiful Christmas trees on each side.
I wonder if Gibbs got into trouble with his rector in Rome because of his masonary? He would today or at least with Pope John Paul I and II and good Pope Benedict.
The first interview was very interesting and historically accurate. I didn't rate the 2nd interview.
It's easy to imagine the second half is fantastication - I can only say I carefully checked each assertion and only included it if I found independent verification indicating the activity (masonic or Jacobite) took place "somewhere".
More than that - most of it is simply seeing - there ARE two rooms connected by a staircase - there is not route (no stair certainly - but not even a convenient place to put a ladder) to get to them. There's just a hatch in the ceiling of the room above that doesn't particularly look like a hatch. There are soot marks in the vault. The gateway pillars have the flag of Scotland carved on them. It's all there in plain sight.
I was forced to accept, just because it's unbelievable, doesn't mean it's not historically accurate.
If you know a reason why it isn't - I genuinely encourage you to let me know why, here. I would really like a sceptical other side on this.