The Secrets Of Salisbury Cathedral | The Tallest Spire in Britain

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  • 'The Secrets of Salisbury Cathedral | The Tallest Spire in Britain'
    Join Alice Loxton as she explores the secrets of Salisbury Cathedral in Wiltshire. In this video Alice travels up the tallest church spire in the United Kingdom, visits the world's oldest working mechanical clock and sees one of the only four remaining original copies of the Magna Carta.
    Drone footage captured by Jacques Eloff.
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Комментарии • 332

  • @HistoryHit
    @HistoryHit  Год назад +77

    Hey guys, we've reuploaded this video due to an error in the original version. Hope you enjoy!

    • @TrevorTrottier
      @TrevorTrottier Год назад +10

      What was the error?

    • @clioflano421
      @clioflano421 Год назад +1

      @@kevin02mulderthe grizzlier the better... Long live history 👍

    • @milesbrown8016
      @milesbrown8016 Год назад +2

      What an awesome spire, any church‘s desire…..And the documentary was done well, for all to dwell and tell….👌🏻

    • @emeraldqueen1994
      @emeraldqueen1994 10 месяцев назад +2

      Butterflies are sometimes used to depict souls 🦋 maybe that’s why they used a butterfly in the chapel where they offer prey for the souls of the dead?

  • @alfiemorgan3761
    @alfiemorgan3761 Год назад +10

    I’m from Salisbury, the cathedral grounds are my favourite place in the whole world to go and sit. I sit on the same bench everyday and listen to music.

  • @franciscomorales7863
    @franciscomorales7863 3 месяца назад +2

    Wonderful!!!!
    Thank you!!!

  • @mrrey8937
    @mrrey8937 Год назад +108

    From the US.....been there twice, absolutely stunning place to visit, from the town leading to the cathedral to the cathedral itself. I spent 5 hours inside the cathedral thinking only an hour had passed, it is that interesting and beautiful. Stonehenge is not to far away.

    • @sandrawood6398
      @sandrawood6398 Год назад +3

      I did the same thing when I was there after I read the book old sarem. I walked around there too. I loved sll of it. Fascinating places.

    • @mrrey8937
      @mrrey8937 Год назад +6

      @@sandrawood6398 every 10 or twenty paces or turning a corner, there was something new and completely different and amazing then, you find out its under your feet as well! I remember walking down the length of the cathedral, early morning, looked to the left and saw what looked to be a large oil painting. A man in a priests robe sitting at a small but tall table about chest high, inside a very small open room, studying or praying. A ray of sunlight pierced the room's darkness and hit him on the back shoulder, illuminating the area...... then he moved, he was real!! I will never forget it. It looked like a 18th century oil painting.

    • @davideldred.campingwilder6481
      @davideldred.campingwilder6481 Год назад +1

      Actually, it's correctly known as an Abbey, however, it once was a Cathedral...

    • @jamiepotts6249
      @jamiepotts6249 Год назад +1

      I live there its just not that good 😭

    • @elvinhaak
      @elvinhaak Год назад

      @@jamiepotts6249 Been there at an exchange-trip ... I think not enough time to see it all. But also I was not THAT much impressed. The video shows more then I saw though.

  • @suemccurdy3691
    @suemccurdy3691 Год назад +35

    Salisbury is my all time favourite cathedral. I spent 3 years living in the Close while at the teacher training college (1964-67). What a wonderful view every day. Some of the happiest years of my life. I was finally awarded my honorary degree in the cathedral in 2020.

  • @Stitchwitchstitch
    @Stitchwitchstitch 2 месяца назад +2

    This is one of the most stunning things I’ve ever seen! I just couldn’t stop staring. The intricacies! I could have gone back every day for a week at least just to look at it. I was lucky enough to visit it with my grandparents- grandfather was a retired Anglican priest, and we visited many churches and abbeys (castles, colleges, historic sites, etc) the years. Then again, it is Britain- you can take one step and be in some battlefield or on a hike and find out you’re on a burial mound, or the garden you’re trying to establish brings up Roman coins or Bronze Age post holes!

  • @morenofranco9235
    @morenofranco9235 Год назад +23

    Just had a tour of the Roman Baths, and now a wonderful trip around Salisbury Cathedral. Looks like I am about to join Alice for a tour of Wells Cathedral. Thanks History Hit, for making my day.

  • @evolancer211
    @evolancer211 Год назад +5

    I can listen and watch Alice all day.

  • @tomasxfranco
    @tomasxfranco Год назад +6

    Alice is a joy to watch and listen to.

  • @leonardo.1024
    @leonardo.1024 Год назад +8

    empathize so strongly with Alice sticking to the wall of the spire on that balcony.

  • @gigteevee6118
    @gigteevee6118 10 месяцев назад +2

    Went there last month, wish I’d seen this before, need to go back now! Great city and location.

  • @frederickspring3626
    @frederickspring3626 Год назад +45

    An amazing video. My grandfather was the clerk of the works at Salisbury Cathedral for many years before his retirement and I'm sure he would have loved this video

  • @cliffhoelzer6895
    @cliffhoelzer6895 Год назад +37

    I was there as a student in 1975 and remember the sun setting and the trees beginning to turn. The light turned the tower golden above the trees...one of the most beautiful sights I had every scene! I remember it's Godley ethereal beauty to thus day!

    • @raider7829
      @raider7829 Год назад

      Wow! Sounds amazing!!!

    • @markbaynes5930
      @markbaynes5930 Год назад +2

      I went to school there from 70-74. Amazing experience. Wandered those cloisters many a time before services. Wonderful acoustics in the cathedral. . Great memories.

    • @raider7829
      @raider7829 Год назад

      @@markbaynes5930 so Amazing!! I wish I got to experience it!!

  • @Bloomcycle
    @Bloomcycle Год назад +34

    I'm a retired restoration stone mason by trade and working at this place would be the job of a lifetime ⛪

    • @Stitchwitchstitch
      @Stitchwitchstitch 2 месяца назад +2

      What you and your peers do/did is AMAZING. Thank you!
      Have you read/listened to Pillars of the Earth? One of the main characters is a stonemason in the Middle Ages and he’s working on a great cathedral. It’s a great long novel, incorporating people from varying classes and economic perspectives. Those that work, play, pray etc.
      Masonry was and is such an art. I got to spend many summers in England, and it’s the stonework that, for me, makes so much of it unique. Even church ruins from the reformation still stand strong in so many places- even if the pillars and lintels etc are fallen, the beauty of them lasts. I always wonder about the person/people who worked on the stones. Not to mention the risks they had to take. The ways they measured and laid lines out, mortared, lifted- just awesome. If you haven’t seen it, there’s a documentary where Peter Ginn gets hands on with restoration masons who are doing work using period methods! “Living history” style, costume and tools all. Can’t remember the title but it’s a history hit doc. I think Alex is in it too (don’t remember his last name). I’d love to hear what/where you worked on, if you read this and feel like replying! Regardless, I am grateful for your craft!

    • @Bloomcycle
      @Bloomcycle 2 месяца назад

      @@Stitchwitchstitch I'll check it out. Ty

  • @1AlejoYT
    @1AlejoYT Год назад +17

    Impossible not to fall in love with this Cathedral, its history; with this video and its lovely and charismatic presenter 🥰

  • @AsmodeusT
    @AsmodeusT Год назад +7

    What an amazing documentary. Watching how much energy and enthusiasm you have when presenting historical stories makes it really easy to stay engaged until the end of the video!

  • @derekstocker6661
    @derekstocker6661 Год назад +4

    Thanks so much for this fabulous review of this wonderful edifice, what a great place to visit or even to work, being surrounded by all that history and building skill would be so satisfying.

  • @zachkucera3793
    @zachkucera3793 Год назад +26

    I have been fascinated with Salisbury Cathedral as a cleric and also because I loved "Sarum: The Novel of England," which is a must read. I do hope to visit there one day. Thank you so much for a wonderful peek into the history and construction of this wonderfully gorgeous house of worship. And a special bit of gratitude to Alice and the History Hit crew for their hard work in making this come alive for those of us on the other side of the world. Blessings from the Pacific Northwest in the US.

    • @michaeldeierhoi4096
      @michaeldeierhoi4096 Месяц назад

      I have almost finished Sarum myself and found it a fascinating read. I plan to return to southern England again soon. I was there about 40 years ago and having studied English history I know my trip will be better for the effort. Here's wishing you a good trip there as well.

  • @yuh8456
    @yuh8456 Год назад +5

    Seeing my old school in some of the shots has been quite the experience… don’t remember thinking fondly of it at the time but looking back on it, going to school pretty much next to cathedral was honestly incredible

    • @TheDirtyNorf
      @TheDirtyNorf 10 месяцев назад

      I'm not religious, but having assemblies in the cathedral was really cool.

  • @jeremyblatherwick3794
    @jeremyblatherwick3794 Год назад +7

    Thank you for a lively and engaging video of Salisbury Cathedral. My Great Grandfather George Freemantle was Senior Verger of Salisbury Cathedral during the late 19C. The job came with a house (with a 99 year lease) in the close. He had three children there of which one survived until 1977. I remember visiting her in this house as a youngster listening to the clock bells chiming in the morning and walking around the cathedral. At that time (1970's) there were modern sculptures in the close thankfully gone now.

  • @zworm2
    @zworm2 Год назад +2

    Just finished re reading the great story - Sarum. What a wonderful Cathedral. Thanks

    • @michaeldeierhoi4096
      @michaeldeierhoi4096 Месяц назад +1

      An excellent book for sure. The author is actually from Salisbury.

    • @zworm2
      @zworm2 Месяц назад

      @@michaeldeierhoi4096 Gave it a great feel in the story. Like Jack Hargreaves talking about his countryside.

  • @patricialong5767
    @patricialong5767 Год назад +3

    Absolutely beautiful!!

  • @stijnvth
    @stijnvth Год назад +1

    Cheers for History Hit.

  • @sandraferguson6486
    @sandraferguson6486 Год назад +14

    Hi Alice we love your informative entertaining and enthusiastic presentation you clearly have a passion for history.

  • @arlen_95
    @arlen_95 Год назад +18

    Thank you very much for this video! My favorite books are Pillars of the Earth and World Without End by Ken Follett. The Kingsbridge Cathedral is partially based on Salisbury Cathedral. I love taking in the stunning architecture and history of gothic Cathedrals! As an American we don't have the beautiful centuries-old gothic Cathedral's you have in the UK.
    I will always despise Henry VIII for his despicable Iconoclasm of English Cathedrals and Monasteries. Centuries of rich history, cultural, architecture, and art all wiped just so Henry VIII could enrich himself and divorce his wife. Whenever I look at an English Cathedral I try to imagine the stunning and vibrant rainbow of colorful murals and relics that you would have seen in the 1300's. Imagine what the interior of Salisbury Cathedral looked like in it's glory days! It breaks my heart that its all been replaced by bare and whitewashed stone.

    • @margaretlavender9647
      @margaretlavender9647 Год назад +3

      Altho I loathe the RC church, I totally agree with you. I live halfway between Salisbury and Stonehenge.

    • @arlen_95
      @arlen_95 Год назад +3

      @@margaretlavender9647 I agree. I’m not a fan of the Catholic church either. I just hate how in these theological wars that go on between protestant versus Catholic etc., the beautiful and historic architecture and art gets caught in the crossfire.
      Also how the French revolution destroyed so much art and culture in it’s misguided desire to wipe out all traces of monarchies in the past.

  • @ulrikaa1581
    @ulrikaa1581 Год назад +8

    That stonework is amazing! What a beautiful cathedral. 🤩

  • @heya4405
    @heya4405 Год назад +3

    my school had a summer trip to scotland england and france and we stopped in salisbury for a day! It was sooo fun and were from new jersey so it was cool going to a different country

  • @SpiceGhouls
    @SpiceGhouls Год назад +4

    This was fascinating! Please do Norwich Cathedral next!

  • @christinecarter6836
    @christinecarter6836 Год назад +9

    I wish we could know more about the original "architect" and some of the stonemasons who would have spent a lifetime working there, who must have poured their heart and soul into the work they did. Stunning I hope to visit it one day, from NZ.

    • @Mpayne1472
      @Mpayne1472 Год назад +6

      Elias de Derham was the architect and used a master mason named Nicholas of Ely to carry out his brilliant design

    • @thefreedomguyuk
      @thefreedomguyuk Год назад

      We do actually have those details available.

  • @metubegirl01
    @metubegirl01 Год назад +2

    I had the good fortune to have visited in 2015 the week the scaffolding came down and the Magna Carta came home to the Chapter House. I have mentally revisited my wonderful day many times.

  • @daegudiva
    @daegudiva Год назад +11

    The more Alice the better!

  • @themanamana81
    @themanamana81 Год назад +2

    wonderfull documentary! thank you! greetings from Germany

  • @slightlyconfused876
    @slightlyconfused876 Год назад +90

    Tallest spire in England. A fact known to every KGB agent.

    • @elliotdixon1462
      @elliotdixon1462 Год назад +5

      Bahahahahaha!!! 🤣

    • @will5989
      @will5989 Год назад +1

      I can understand why they had to visit it now 😉.

    • @johnb6723
      @johnb6723 Год назад +1

      And everyone else.

    • @AsmodeusT
      @AsmodeusT Год назад +2

      Hahahaha, this comment is properly funny 🤣🤣🤣

    • @jremy89
      @jremy89 Год назад +2

      Can you explain this reference for a ignorant American?

  • @samdix6343
    @samdix6343 Год назад +3

    I love the cathedral, I was confirmed and babtised there. God bless.

  • @dlxmarks
    @dlxmarks Год назад +7

    I visited Old Sarum and walked around its cathedral's footprint. Perhaps it was standard sized for the Normans but it is surprisingly small compared to later cathedrals.

  • @franciscojose6496
    @franciscojose6496 Год назад +3

    Pure art pure information pure history of course

  • @EarlyMusicDiva
    @EarlyMusicDiva 5 месяцев назад

    That fascinating clock deserves a documentary all its own!

  • @raider7829
    @raider7829 Год назад +3

    What an Outstanding, Majestic place of Worship! Love this 💕💕

  • @joenock3466
    @joenock3466 Год назад +1

    she is amazing

  • @cindchan
    @cindchan Год назад +5

    Loved seeing how the stone masons work! I think I visited this cathedral many many years ago when I came to Salisbury to see Stonehenge.

  • @jack_of_all_braves
    @jack_of_all_braves Год назад +2

    I like this lady

  • @pedenharley6266
    @pedenharley6266 Год назад +2

    This was wonderful, thank you!

  • @isacmathew9244
    @isacmathew9244 7 месяцев назад

    Hi. Thank you so much.God bless you

  • @SirRodericSpode
    @SirRodericSpode Год назад +4

    Amazing video and great presenter. I am going to the Cathedral with my wife in November, this was a great intro to what i'm going to see.

  • @joansavage1857
    @joansavage1857 Год назад +2

    Fascinating!! Many thanks….

  • @kevinquist
    @kevinquist Год назад +1

    thank you for this. I'm A proud Christian, a history fanatic.. and an Anglophile. This video was a short vacation for me and what a wonderful vacation it was.

  • @platero1993
    @platero1993 Год назад +3

    She's my favorite more of her please

  • @lizlittle1641
    @lizlittle1641 Год назад +2

    This was very interesting. Thank you for making this video!

  • @michaelmiller609
    @michaelmiller609 Год назад +1

    My family is from there and I have been many times. Alice Rocks!!!

  • @984francis
    @984francis Год назад +1

    The quality, stunning!

  • @jenniferlevine5406
    @jenniferlevine5406 Год назад +3

    Enjoyed this very much!

  • @elvenkind6072
    @elvenkind6072 Год назад

    21:22 What a wonderful giggling. Love the nerdy enthusiasm for her subject :)

  • @azfarsyed7082
    @azfarsyed7082 Год назад

    Old historical buildings have attraction Love your ways to speak, explain.Hope you show. More places to visit there thanks

  • @wudangmtn
    @wudangmtn Год назад

    Awe inspiring cathedral..... I guess that was the point. I really liked Alice’s presentation.

  • @lindaajones5992
    @lindaajones5992 Год назад

    Fascinating!!

  • @MrTwizzlet
    @MrTwizzlet Год назад +1

    I love Salisbury steak! I was surprised that there is all this history there as well.

  • @lindsaydrewe8219
    @lindsaydrewe8219 Год назад +4

    I like Guedelon Castle,in France,to see how things were built, back in the day

  • @chris.asi_romeo
    @chris.asi_romeo 9 месяцев назад

    Love watching documentary like this. 💯👏 I enjoy watching.

  • @balancedactguy
    @balancedactguy 7 месяцев назад

    A very nice Presentation Alice! You are a brilliant young lady and a Proper Lovely English Rose you are!!!!😀

  • @paulhalton100
    @paulhalton100 Год назад

    Fabulous insight and very well introduced.

  • @qed456
    @qed456 Год назад +3

    Salisbury is a magnificent cathedral = Ms Loxton shows it well - Glory be to God and his cathedrals

  • @justadreamin1004
    @justadreamin1004 Год назад +2

    As was told to me ---- the spire has a rotating beacon at its point. Years ago in the 1950's a USAF Convair B-36 was stuck up over the overcast and could not land.The only reference point was the beacon on the spire which they circled until they ran out of gas.

  • @gilesellis8002
    @gilesellis8002 Год назад

    Incredible . . .

  • @amaxwell6989
    @amaxwell6989 Год назад

    It's amazing!!

  • @ednammansfield8553
    @ednammansfield8553 Год назад +5

    I haven't been to this cathedral yet but I have visited Lincoln Cathedral and also Hereford Cathedral also many times. Hereford Cathedral has a copy of the Magna Carta there as well as the tapestry of the Battle of Hastings. Both wonderful buildings.

    • @aprilwoelke
      @aprilwoelke Год назад

      Lincoln Cathedral has one of the other copies of the Magna Carta, not Hereford. Salisbury’s is the best surviving copy as it’s never left the city.

  • @petersadler2835
    @petersadler2835 Год назад

    Brilliant Gary!!

  • @CapB777
    @CapB777 Год назад +1

    Great videos, Alice is the best!

  • @colemarsh13
    @colemarsh13 Год назад +1

    Alice is amazing 💖

  • @benfurbank
    @benfurbank Год назад

    Great facts! Thank you

  • @nigelbews3335
    @nigelbews3335 7 месяцев назад

    Just finished reading pillars of the earth by Ken Follet….To see this master piece has to be in my bucket list!

  • @davidchristen5335
    @davidchristen5335 Год назад

    very well done! thank you from Canada :)

  • @satanicgamer666
    @satanicgamer666 9 месяцев назад +1

    I'm a descendant of the Salisbury family so it's cool to look about my ancestors.

  • @Ihsaan1c
    @Ihsaan1c Год назад +2

    It’s 123m spire draws visitors from all over the world

  • @judyhall8615
    @judyhall8615 2 месяца назад

    Thanks!

  • @kennybrydges2429
    @kennybrydges2429 Год назад +1

    great video.. we had the pleasure of visiting the Cathedral 2018 on a return visit to the U.K. from Canada ( ex pats) really impressive , thanks for the upload 👍

  • @williamrobinson7435
    @williamrobinson7435 Год назад +3

    Well I didn't spot the error, but it was a pleasure to see this excellent film again! Nice one #2 Alice! 👍

  • @s1nb4d59
    @s1nb4d59 Год назад +1

    Im now a fan thanks to alice 8).

  • @patrickcol
    @patrickcol Год назад +1

    I planted those trees, (@ 16:17), back in 1972 :)

  • @Jolly56Roger
    @Jolly56Roger Год назад

    Great loved it Alice. And you are great to😍😍

  • @rodpettet2819
    @rodpettet2819 8 месяцев назад

    I went high up in the tower to where the spire started. I don't have a head for heights but I forced myself. It's a magnificent and fascinating cathedral.

  • @ecarron6016
    @ecarron6016 Год назад +1

    The butterfly might be in the chantry, because they're sometimes used in Christianity as a symbol of resurrection and the hope of new life, which is essentially what someone in chantry would be praying for.

  • @kearyfrancis1352
    @kearyfrancis1352 7 месяцев назад

    I love this vedio it is very intresting, im a full time verger at a 300 year old anglican cathedral in the caribbean wish we had a department like this as our cathedral badly needs restoration

  • @cindyplutnicki8930
    @cindyplutnicki8930 Год назад

    Fantastic!

  • @rvg202
    @rvg202 Год назад

    Great documentary

  • @sassymuffinzz
    @sassymuffinzz Год назад +37

    I heard this Cathedral is very popular with Russian tourists.

    • @arlen_95
      @arlen_95 Год назад

      I understood that reference!

    • @revbenf6870
      @revbenf6870 Год назад +3

      Amazing what you can glean from Wikipedia when you need to concoct a lame excuse for murder and mayhem! Hope the GRU are keeping up on all these details, never know when they might need them.

    • @davejoyford1815
      @davejoyford1815 Год назад +2

      yes .they like to count the steps, its a Russian hobby

    • @markuk7935
      @markuk7935 Год назад

      Just don't touch the door handles!

    • @blumousey
      @blumousey Год назад

      It's so funny, as no tourist has any reason to go to Bemerton Heath! It's a couple of miles from the cathedral, just a residential area...

  • @georgebarden3928
    @georgebarden3928 Год назад

    Was there in August, beautiful

  • @Dave_Lad
    @Dave_Lad Год назад +1

    Love the video!

  • @coling8176
    @coling8176 Год назад +1

    Brilliant video! I used to work in Salisbury and one time after leaving work some bloke jumped out in front of my car with his hand held up - made me brake a bit smartish. Turns out it was Sir Edward Heath’s bodyguard! At least I got a little wave from Sir Edward as he crossed the road - He used to live in Cathedral Close, with his bodyguard in a little sentry box at the beginning of his pathway.

  • @jonescrusher1
    @jonescrusher1 9 месяцев назад

    It's always an impressive sight driving in from the east.

  • @inspectorclouseau3880
    @inspectorclouseau3880 Год назад

    Thanks, i enjoyed that

  • @timrutter5025
    @timrutter5025 Год назад +2

    Quite a few years ago they had a fundraising project to replace beams in the roof, you paid a contribution and had your name carved into a section of new wood. Mum, Dad, me, my partner, Sister and Brother in law and Nepew are all up there. Nice idea.

  • @justinfuller8803
    @justinfuller8803 Год назад

    More from Alice please!

  • @Chelle8847
    @Chelle8847 Год назад +1

    I live here!! This is so weird it came up on my RUclips homepage!

  • @faithhowe6170
    @faithhowe6170 Год назад

    Very interesting.

  • @matthewlacey5307
    @matthewlacey5307 Год назад +2

    Lived in salisbury since 1994. The 'tour of the spire' alone could be an hour long.

  • @rossmeldrum3346
    @rossmeldrum3346 Год назад +8

    All of my ancestors prior to 1830 were born and died in Great Britain, so I consider myself as much British as American. Watching these channels gives me the chance to see what my ancestors experienced daily. Thus I feel a closer connection to my past.

  • @turtledove8858
    @turtledove8858 2 месяца назад

    This cathedral is stunning! I just wish it had better chairs/pews.

  • @simongoodwin5253
    @simongoodwin5253 7 месяцев назад

    Wakefield Cathedral also has a Peregrine Falcon camera on their spire, the tallest spire in Yorkshire.

  • @thechan03
    @thechan03 Год назад

    I had my covid jabs there to the organ playing the theme to Harry Potter. Great video

  • @X4VER279
    @X4VER279 5 месяцев назад

    Were there last summer 👍