The thatched church at Barton Bendish in Norfolk - Sophistication and Simplicity

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  • Опубликовано: 4 дек 2024

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  • @4sstg
    @4sstg 2 года назад +13

    Lovely little church.
    Watching the news on you tube is very depressing. Turning to your channel is such a blessed relief.
    So many old churches still exist . This one is a gem.

    • @cook13doodle16
      @cook13doodle16 2 года назад

      Coooool!

    • @hlondon2408
      @hlondon2408 2 года назад +1

      Isn't that the truth?! It is a safe and special place for peace and contemplative thought.....

    • @allanbarton
      @allanbarton  2 года назад

      I am so pleased you like the channel and I'm providing an alternative to such news misery!

    • @allanbarton
      @allanbarton  2 года назад +1

      How lovely.

  • @monicacall7532
    @monicacall7532 2 года назад +4

    I think that gothic architecture is so beautiful. Every gothic building that I’ve ever seen looks different from the others even though they all follow the basic elements.

  • @NewSouthWalse
    @NewSouthWalse 2 года назад +9

    Gorgeous little building

  • @annettewillis2797
    @annettewillis2797 2 года назад +5

    How interesting Allan. I love your discussion of the small details and your placing these elements in history. There are some wonderful churches still standing in Britain so I, and many others I'm sure, will look forward to more mini tours. Thanks!

    • @allanbarton
      @allanbarton  2 года назад

      Thanks for watching, I am glad you found it interesting. These small church buildings are never dull and you don't ever know what you are going to find it - every one is a surprise.

  • @cristinaharrison8435
    @cristinaharrison8435 2 года назад

    A very interesting presentation of this delightful little church.

  • @iwasglad122
    @iwasglad122 2 года назад +9

    Any organist who has to play a harmonium, like the one featured in this church, will tell you that they don't have to visit a gym! Playing one is a hell of a workout! Believe me!!

    • @allanbarton
      @allanbarton  2 года назад

      I always feel it must be a bit like playing the bagpipes - how do you coordinate your feet and your hands?

    • @iwasglad122
      @iwasglad122 2 года назад

      @@allanbarton LOL! It's a lot like pedalling a bicycle. You simply get going and don't stop! Apart from the strength needed you do have to be careful not to pedal to the rhythm of what you're playing, otherwise the wind pressure isn't constant and you literally sag in the middle!!

    • @sylviakewish716
      @sylviakewish716 Год назад

      Unfortunately, this harmonium is in disrepair.

  • @mattbarneveld815
    @mattbarneveld815 2 года назад +3

    What an absolute gem. Wish I had access to your channel a few years ago prior to my 1 month trip around England where I visited many beautiful churches but could have added so many more to my itinerary with the info you provide. Next time :-) Thanks from Australia.

    • @allanbarton
      @allanbarton  2 года назад +1

      Matt you will have to come back - I will give you a list of places you need to visit!

    • @mattbarneveld815
      @mattbarneveld815 2 года назад

      @@allanbarton A very tempting offer, thanks 😊

  • @newportshapwick
    @newportshapwick Год назад

    What a beautiful church with so much history attached!

  • @EllenCFarmGirl
    @EllenCFarmGirl 2 года назад +8

    I found a old Church Map (online) circa 1700 of Norfolk, and have enjoyed matching your tour of this area to the map. ❤

    • @allanbarton
      @allanbarton  2 года назад +2

      How fantastic Ellen - did you spot that there were once three churches in Barton Bendish - was the ruin of one marked?

    • @scunner6828
      @scunner6828 10 месяцев назад

      I'm all agog.

  • @hlondon2408
    @hlondon2408 2 года назад +4

    What an adorable old church. Only in England would something like this be found. The decorative trim around the windows and doors are gorgeous. I am so happy this church has been saved and I assume still used. Thank you for your wonderful videos.

    • @TheHansDekker
      @TheHansDekker 2 года назад +2

      Not just in so beautiful England. E.g. in Groningen, in the north east of The Netherlands, there are many small churches of around 1000 years old.

    • @allanbarton
      @allanbarton  2 года назад +2

      We have a lot of beautiful churches here, but there are so many in Europe too.

    • @388Caroline
      @388Caroline 2 года назад

      @@allanbarton Ireland also.

  • @MarkGeraghty
    @MarkGeraghty 2 года назад +4

    I love these little churches, We are so lucky in this country. I have subscribed.

    • @allanbarton
      @allanbarton  2 года назад +1

      Thanks for your subscription.

  • @davidmclaughlin2796
    @davidmclaughlin2796 Год назад

    What a pretty, sparse little church. It's just beautiful. Thank you, it's a wonderful video.
    David

  • @bazzatheblue
    @bazzatheblue 2 года назад +1

    These little old churches built originally for Catholic rite but painted white as can be with clear windows and no altar just a table,very very protestant indeed ,but that wheel painting found beneath the distemper and very small amounts of coloured glass in the tracery of the east window give away its old colourful medieval Catholic past.

  • @rodolfoayalajr.8589
    @rodolfoayalajr.8589 2 года назад

    Beautiful 😻 Structure. So detailed. Prayers for restoration outside the Church ⛪️. Great video friend. Prayers Amen 🙏.

  • @ludovica8221
    @ludovica8221 2 года назад +1

    You're spoiling us with all this excellent content :)

    • @allanbarton
      @allanbarton  2 года назад +1

      I am on a mission to keep spoiling you all.

  • @beneadesmtb
    @beneadesmtb 2 года назад +3

    This church is beautiful, that roof does look a little worse for wear now but I’m no thatch expert so might just be the way it looks

    • @allanbarton
      @allanbarton  2 года назад +3

      I think it is need of some attention.

  • @MyGreatAuntFanny
    @MyGreatAuntFanny 9 месяцев назад

    I live in a neighbouring village, and I recommend that, if planning a visit, you combine it with the open gardens event, details of which can be found online. It's a very pretty village with a nice pub.

  • @davidd6171
    @davidd6171 2 года назад

    I really enjoy your videos! Great knowledge of history and being on location make it very fun to watch! Keep up the great work!

    • @allanbarton
      @allanbarton  2 года назад

      Thank you very much - I am really pleased you enjoy them. Plenty more to come.

  • @marie-louisesegerlov8625
    @marie-louisesegerlov8625 2 года назад

    WOW....🤩🤩🤩🤩

  • @orlando1a1
    @orlando1a1 2 года назад +3

    Thank you for a very interesting video and sad, when you consider what was likely destroyed since the mid 17th century, particularly by the puritan zealots of the likes of William Dowsing. In the quest to rid the region of papist idolatry, East Anglian churches suffered greatly as a consequence of systematic destruction and of stained-glass and mutilation of sculptures. The successive removal continued well into the 18 & 19th centuries. We can only lament the great loss of the Stained-glass, if you look at what remains, say in the East Window of the grand church of St Peter Mancroft in Norwich. Even memorial brasses didn't escape being crow-barred off of their matrices. Walk down the aisles of the nave of Lincoln Minster, which are paved with an almost numberless amount of empty slabs that once contained brasses. Ghosts of a past long gone, but not forgotten...

    • @allanbarton
      @allanbarton  2 года назад +1

      It is tragic, when you think how colourful and elaborate this interior would have been, it has a simple charm but that is not how it was intended to be. A lot of glass, brasses, monuments were lost after the Commonwealth just through sheer apathy. Medieval glass could be picked up for pence in plumber's workshops, where it had been replaced we clear glazing which was more economical than repairing medieval glass. In Norfolk here are so many more brass indents than there are extant brasses. I was at Fincham on the same day as Barton Bendish - one brass remains, but there were four matrices that I found under the carpets.

  • @marypalmer1062
    @marypalmer1062 2 года назад

    Thanks very much. Always interesting

  • @spuddy4845
    @spuddy4845 2 года назад +3

    st catherine's wheel?

  • @ffvvaacc
    @ffvvaacc 2 года назад +1

    I noticed that the name inscribed onto the communion table wasn’t just scratched there quickly but actually carved, each letter with thin and thick lines (resembling letters chiseled into stone), like it took some time to do. Like he wasn’t in any rush or worried he’d be caught. So odd.

  • @atiffany83
    @atiffany83 2 года назад

    Love this!
    I have always wanted to visit England. Hopefully someday, I will make it there ❤

  • @danlensch531
    @danlensch531 2 года назад +3

    i really like your videos very informative what do u look like plus you sound like Paul Macartney

    • @allanbarton
      @allanbarton  2 года назад +1

      Ha, ha - opposite side of the country to where he comes from, but I'm still quite northern. I look I do on my profile picture!

  • @TheHansDekker
    @TheHansDekker 2 года назад

    I love those small English old churches. Often with peaceful old churchyards surrounding them. I specifically remember the one in Lewes, Kent. Will never forget it. Greetings from The Hague.

    • @allanbarton
      @allanbarton  2 года назад

      Hello Hans, thank you - we are so very blessed with the buildings we have. The English countryside would not be the same without them.

    • @CarloRossi54523
      @CarloRossi54523 2 года назад

      A fitting surname for this video

  • @2charliep
    @2charliep 2 года назад

    That’s a new one on me, a thatched church.

  • @natesquestyouknowthatsrigh8269
    @natesquestyouknowthatsrigh8269 2 года назад

    😊❤

  • @adbraham
    @adbraham 2 года назад +1

    Check out St Andrew’s; Frenze, near Diss in Norfolk! Love your videos by the way

    • @allanbarton
      @allanbarton  2 года назад

      Funny you should say that I visited Frenze the next day. Sadly I didn't record a video as there was someone else photographing the brasses and I didn't wish to disturb them.

    • @adbraham
      @adbraham 2 года назад

      @@allanbarton I been there several times on family history research. It’s a lovely atmospheric little place. The wife of a very long-dead cousin lies under the brass opposite the main door!

  • @nickimontie
    @nickimontie 2 года назад

    What a lovely chapel! Does the thatch need to be replaced or does it form a solid structure over time?

    • @allanbarton
      @allanbarton  2 года назад +2

      Every thirty or forty years, I think it looks ready for renewal.

  • @paulalima1262
    @paulalima1262 2 года назад

    Sou Brasileira... E amo história. Vejo os vídeos,porém não entendo...Poderia as ter tradução..

  • @TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods
    @TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods 2 года назад

    Mr. Cock was rather proud of himself.

  • @ggmtv1394
    @ggmtv1394 2 года назад

    Sis you ever get to the bottom of the arches? They look quite strange - they lack symmetry and seem to have been carved/built into the buttress as if the whole arch had been originally more to one side.

    • @allanbarton
      @allanbarton  2 года назад

      They are odd - I'm still working them out. I don't think they led anywhere and were probably internally decorative.

  • @marileelockwood5408
    @marileelockwood5408 2 года назад

    Allan it’s so exciting when you open the door! 😊
    I was also wondering if most of the churches are open for visitors in the daytime and do you have to get permission to film for your channel?

    • @allanbarton
      @allanbarton  2 года назад

      It is, you never know what you are going to find inside a medieval church. Yes, the vast majority of the churches are open every day in this country, which is great. This church is now redundant and is owned by the Churches Conservation Trust who keep most of their buildings open for visitors.

  • @tm502010
    @tm502010 2 года назад

    Is this church ever still used? If it is, it needs a good cleaning. The roof looks like it needs some maintenance…. A whole lot more could be said about this church, the churchyard, and the community. Do tell us more if you can! It’s a delightful building. 😊

    • @allanbarton
      @allanbarton  2 года назад +2

      Sadly not, there is still another church in the village that remains open. This one is maintained by the Churches Conservation Trust who look after redundant church buildings and keep them open for visitors and private prayer.

  • @inisipisTV
    @inisipisTV 2 года назад

    Incredible that there's still thatched churches. I wonder how long would they have to re-thatch these structures to keep it water-proof.

    • @allanbarton
      @allanbarton  2 года назад

      Apparently a thatched roof can last for about 30-40 years, but the ridge needs renewing every 10-15. I think this church is need of rethatching.

    • @sylviakewish716
      @sylviakewish716 Год назад +1

      Absolutely, St Mary’s is in need of repairs and re-thatch but being off the beaten track it does not attract many visitors or donations. My husband and I cleaned the church on Easter Sunday and will do so again this week at least to keep it decent.
      I have to say its acoustics is great and I made several non-commercial recordings there. It is located on the fringe of the village, does not have water/electricity supply, so it is difficult to use it as a concert venue but its exquisite atmosphere and location are the main reasons of my frequent visits and music-making.
      The parish church is dedicated to St Andrew - just to correct the information.

  • @Uftonwood2
    @Uftonwood2 2 года назад

    The woodwork is 300+ years old, yet has not been eaten to dust by woodworm. What the craftsmen of those day knew is lying in the churchyard graves.