Kilwinning Abbey
Kilwinning Abbey
A video of kilwinning abbey and you have to take 183 steps to get up the tower and when your coming down you feel dizzy because it's a spiral staircase. The views from up the tower is amazing you can see everything around Kilwinning and beyound. The people who did the tour were great.
Kilwinning Abbey and Archaeological Dig
The town of Kilwinning now retains the name of this Saint as the church of Winning. So why would St Winin and his band of monks build their mission on the site of the later Abbey, very likely on the spot occupied today by the Abbey Church? Because it is an obvious building site, above a bridging-point on the river, suitable for a fortified mission station and commanding a view of the surrounding country.
Winin has been identified by some scholars with St Finnan of Moville, an Irish Saint of a much earlier date; other authorities say he was a Welshman, called Vynnyn, while the Aberdeen Breviary (published 1507) gives his birthplace as Scotland. In the calendar of Scots Saints, the date assigned to St Winin is 715. His festival was celebrated on 21st January, on which day a fair was held in Kilwinning and called St Winning's Day
There is certain evidence that there was a Christian Church and a monastery of Culdees at Kilwinning several centuries before the foundation of the Benedictine house by Hugh de Morville, Constable of Scotland, and a great territorial magnate of the district, somewhere around 1140-62. Timothy Pont , who had seen the cartulary of the abbey and now lost, wrote in 1608 that the date was 1171 and Richard de Morville (one of the murderers of St Thomas a' Beckett) as the founder, but evidence shows that King David I gave the district of Cunningham to his friend Hugh de Morville, making him responsible for the peace and security of what became North Ayrshire.
For nearly four centuries Kilwinning remained one of the most opulent and flourishing Scottish monasteries. The last abbot and commendator was Gavin Hamilton, who while favouring the Reformation doctrines, was a strong partisan of Queen Mary. He was killed in a battle outside Edinburgh in June, 1571. The suppression and destruction of the abbey soon followed and its possessions, held for a time by the families of Glencairn and Raith, were merged in 1603
with the other properties of the one obvious recipient - Hugh, Earl of Eglinton, whose successors still own them. The Earls of Eglinton have taken some pains to preserve the remains of the buildings, which include the great west doorway with window above, the lower part of the south wall of nave and the tall gable of the south transept with its three lancet windows. The fair steiple was struck by lightning in 1809 and fell down
five years later.
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Kilwinning Abbey
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Kilwinning Abbey Dig 2010, part 3
Kilwinning abbey dig, August-September 2010.
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The Kilwinning Abbey Folly Garden
A unique and inventive 'Folly Garden' with the 'ruins' of Kilwinning Abbey, a fine collection of conifers and shrubs, a 'Mother Earth' artwork and enough standing stones to replace Carnac in Brittany as the menhir capital of the World. An outstandingly creative piece of landscape gardening.
History of Dirrans Athletic AFC, Kilwinning
Dirrans Athletic AFC are an amateur football team based in Kilwinning, Ayrshire. Formed in 1946 the club have been Ayrshire Amateur League Champions twice in their history1968-69 and 1969-70 and have won one Ayrshire Cup in 1972.
In season 2014-15 they are back in the Ayrshire Premier League after comprehensively winning the First Division last season.
KILWINNING, SCOTLAND - JOHN NESS - WWII SONG - HISTORY OF THE MASONIC LODGE
Kilwinning man John Ness wrote this poignant song “There’s a Light in Blighty Burning” at the height of WWII. John was a renowned Historian of all things Abbey Church and Masonic in the town and I was lucky to meet him at his book signing in 1974 and even luckier to receive his original manuscript for this song. Here is my interpretation of his rough score
Ayr to Kilwinning! ????♀️????♀️????♀️????♀️
Long run! #teamcoxy #teamkidney #relive #livingdonor
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Sunset at Wilder's Folly on Nunhide Hill, Sulham
Sunset at Wilder's Folly on Nunhide Hill, Sulham
Wilder's Folly on Nunhide Hill
(also known as Pincent's Kiln, Nunhide Tower, Pigeon Tower and Flint's Folly)
Wilder's Folly / dovecote at Nunhide near the village of Sulham ( Sulham estate ) just outside the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire.
Originally built as a belvedere in 1769 by Reverend Henry Wilder while he was courting Joan, younger sister of John Thoyts of Sulhamstead House
from here you have great views of Nunhide, Pincent Manor, Sulham, Theale and Sulhamstead
it is easily accessible from Theale, Tilehurst, Calcot and Sulham hill
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Irvine to Dalry via Benslie and Kilwinning.
Astonishment in Green : The World's most amazing folly UK
jaw dropping and created by English eccentricity at its glorious Victorian best.
Sister Garven FB
Sister Garven reunion 2011.
The Ruin
This is a film of The Ruin on the edge of Hackfall Wood. The Ruin is a tiny, eighteenth-century banqueting house, which was restored from dereliction by The Landmark Trust.
The Ruin is a Janus-faced Georgian folly, Gothic at the front and a Romanesque'ruin' at the back with one of the finest views in North Yorkshire.
This little pavilion is dramatically perched above a steep wooded gorge in the remnants of an outstanding mid-eighteenth-century picturesque garden at Hackfall, now restored by the Hackfall Trust. The garden was conceived and created by the Aislabies, who also made the gardens at nearby Studley Royal. Hackfall was Studley's antithesis: a 'natural' Gothic landscape with follies, waterfalls and built structures.
Belgian Folly - May the Force be with you
Belgian Folly: is it a church or something else ?
In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or appearing to be so extravagant that it transcends the range of garden ornaments usually associated with the class of buildings to which it belongs.
18th century English gardens and French landscape gardening often featured mock Roman temples, symbolizing classical virtues. Other 18th century garden follies represented Chinese temples, Egyptian pyramids, ruined abbeys, or Tatar tents, to represent different continents or historical eras. Sometimes they represented rustic villages, mills and cottages, to symbolize rural virtues.[1] Many follies, particularly during famine, such as the Irish potato famine, were built as a form of poor relief, to provide employment for peasants and unemployed artisans.
In English, the term began as a popular name for any costly structure considered to have shown folly in the builder, the OED's definition,[2] and were often named after the individual who commissioned or designed the project. The connotations of silliness or madness in this definition is in accord with the general meaning of the French word folie; however, another older meaning of this word is delight or favourite abode[3] This sense included conventional, practical, buildings that were thought unduly large or expensive, such as Beckford's Folly, an extremely expensive early Gothic Revival country house that collapsed under the weight of its tower in 1825, 12 years after completion. As a general term, folly is usually applied to a small building that appears to have no practical purpose, or the purpose of which appears less important than its striking and unusual design, but the term is ultimately subjective, so a precise definition is not possible.
Source: Wiipedia
QRS AYRSHIRE BENSLIE KILWINNING
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Dalgarven Mill, Museum of Ayrshire Life and Costume
The River Garnock and the mill at Dalgarven, the Museum of Ayrshire Country Life and Costume near Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The waterwheel, lade, sluice and weir are depicted. The mill site was once held by the Abbot of Kilwinning Abbey and more recently the Ferguson family have been the millers and later chair of the Dalgarven Trust.
Selby Abbey: Drone footage inside the abbey
This drone video from inside the Selby Abbey was taken while we were recording the Regent Classic Organs DVD with Joseph Nolan.
Selby is a small Yorkshire town, 12 miles South of York with one of the most superb Abbey churches to be found anywhere in England. Selby Abbey is often called the hidden Gem of Yorkshire as no other church has the size, the age or the beauty that makes this building so unique.
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Gridworks: Vortex & Energy lines dowsed Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland 2
Taken 2017 10 15
Montgreenan Castle and the Murder of the 4th Earl of Eglinton
In April 1586 Hugh Montgomerie, 4th Earl of Eglinton, was murdered by Cunninghame of Clonherb Castle and in revenge Sir Robert Montgomerie of Skelmorlie (See Skelmorlie Aisle) murdered Alexander Cunningame, Commendator of Kilwining Abbey at his Bishop's Palace of Montgreenan.
Powerstation
Powerstation