St. John the Baptist, Burford, Oxon: Double Norwich Court Bob Major
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Church Bells of England
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The Church Of Saint John The Baptist Burford.
The Church of England parish church of Saint John the Baptist, in the cotswold town of Burford is a Grade I listed building. Described by David Verey as a complicated building which has developed in a curious way from the Norman, it is known for its merchants' guild chapel, memorial to Henry VIII's barber-surgeon, Edmund Harman, featuring South American Indians and Kempe stained glass. In 1649 the church was used as a prison during the Civil War, when the New Model Army Banbury mutineers were held there. Some of the 340 prisoners left carvings and graffiti, which still survive in the church.
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Burford The Gateway To The Cotswolds.
Burford is a medieval town on the River Windrush in the Cotswold hills in West Oxfordshire, England. It is often referred to as the 'gateway' to the Cotswolds. Burford is located 18 miles (29km) west of Oxford and 22 miles (35km) southeast of Cheltenham, about 2 miles (3km) from the Gloucestershire boundary. The toponym derives from the Old English words burh meaning fortified town or hilltown and ford, the crossing of a river.
The town began in the middle Saxon period with the founding of a village near the site of the modern priory building. This settlement continued in use until just after the Norman conquest of England when the new town of Burford was built. On the site of the old village a hospital was founded which remained open until the Dissolution of the Monasteries by King Henry VIII. The modern priory building was constructed some 40 years later, in around 1580.
The town centre's most notable building is the Church of England parish church of Saint John the Baptist, which is a Grade I listed building. Described by David Verey as a complicated building which has developed in a curious way from the Norman, it is known for its merchants' guild chapel, memorial to Henry VIII's barber-surgeon, Edmund Harman, featuring South American Indians and Kempe stained glass. In 1649 the church was used as a prison during the Civil War, when the New Model Army Banbury mutineers were held there. Some of the 340 prisoners left carvings and graffiti, which still survive in the church.
The town centre also has some 15th-century houses and the baroue style townhouse that is now Burford Methodist Church. Between the 14th and 17th centuries Burford was important for its wool trade. The Tolsey, midway along Burford's High Street, which was once the focal point for trade, is now a museum.
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The Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Burford, Oxon: Double Norwich Court Bob Major
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Bells of the Cotswolds
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Cotwolds, UK Weekend Tour
*** We now offer custom Tour Itineraries for The Cotswolds. Message me for more details. ***
The Cotswolds is a very large area that’s covers roughly 800 square miles. Join us, as we take a weekend tour through Five counties (Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire and Worcestershire).
Throughout this tour, we visit the following locations:
- St. Martins Church in Bladon
- Blenhemim Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire
- Woodstock, Oxfordshire
- St. Kenelm’s Church in Minster Lovell
- St. Mary’s Church in Swinbrook
- Birbury in Gloucestershire
- St. Mary’s the Virgin Church in Bibury
- Burford
- Burford Almshouses
- St. John the Baptist Church in Burford
- Bourton-on-the-water in Gloucestershire
- St. Lawrence Church in Bourton-on-the-Water
- The Slaughters in Gloucestershire
- Stow-on-the-Wold
- St. Edwards Church in Stow-on-the-Wold
- Market Cross in Stow-on-the-Wold
- Rollright Stones in the Cotswolds
- Great Tew in Oxfordshire
- Long Compton in Warwickshire
- St. Peter and St. Paul Church in Long Compton
- Broadway Tower in Worcestershire
- The Town of Broadway in Worcestershire
- Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire
Peterloo Sea Green Singers, St John the Baptist Church, Burford, Levellers Day 2018
Peterloo sung by the Sea Green Singers, St John the Baptist Church, Burford, Levellers Day 2018
The Parish Church of St. Lawrence, Bourton-on-the-Hill, Glos: Plain Bob Minor
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Bells of the Cotswolds
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Haunting Inglesham Church, St John The Baptist, Near Lechlade
This is isolated Church has a strangely haunting atmosphere. It is currently (August 2012) under restoration with the intention of preserving the murals. Well worth a visit. Inglesham itself is today just a hamlet with no shops or pub. The River Thames is just behind the church. The church is no longer consecrated but is maintained. Would have been a great choice as film location for A Month in the Country
QUIET LONER - The dust of St. Peter's field
Taken from the album 'The Battle for the Ballot' this song is about the Peterloo Massacre of August 16th 1819. The song was written when Matt Hill (Quiet Loner) was songwriter-in-residence at The People's History Museum in Manchester.
Much of the song is based on the writing of radical Sam Bamford who led a delegation of reformers to St. Peter's field that day and was later imprisoned for doing so. Read more about the writing of this particular song at
REVIEW FROM ROCKING MAGPIE
That ‘Favourite Track’ goes to the epic The Dust of St. Peters Fields. Wow! This shameful story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre has virtually been airbrushed from our history; even in NW England, but The Quiet Loner describes the events in a modern Folk Rock style that would be worthy of Elvis Costello at his politico best. If Matt Hill never writes or sings another song ever again he can die a happy man for creating this masterpiece.
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Images in this video courtesy of The People's History Museum
Matt Hill - Vocals, Guitars
Mike Harries - Drums, Piano, Guitars
Produced by Mike Harries & Matt Hill
(C) & (P) 2016 Matt Hill
St John the Evangelist Church, Wooton, Surrey
Here I take a look around the charming parish church of St John the Evangelist. St. John's is situated in the hamlet of Wotton standing at the end of Church Lane overlooking the North Downs. This is one of my favourite places to visit along the old A25.
The church dates back to Saxon times although only a few of the original footings now remain to the west of the Norman tower. Much of the church was, out of necessity, restored in Victorian times. The church also contains the Evelyn Chapel where there are some magnificent monuments and the tomb of John Evelyn, the diarist.
Warwick Hall Reopens It's Doors
A £3.7m church and community hall in Burford has reopened after seven years after the project was launched. The two-storey renovation has seen the original medieval building near St John the Baptist Church more than triple in size. It will be used for church and community activities as Burford does not have a town hall or community centre.
burford
a short video showing the town of Burford in Oxfordshire
Rosemary's wedding
The wedding of Rosemary Anne Lowe to James Peter Milson at St Mary's Church, Tenbury Wells Worcestershire on 29th April 1967
St John the Baptists Church Strensham
St John the Baptist's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Strensham, Worcestershire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building,[1] and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[2] Clifton-Taylor includes the church in his list of 'best' English parish churches.[3]
History & Haunting of: Burford Priory& Old Rectory, Burford ,Oxfordshire ,England
The town began in the middle Saxon period with the founding of a village near the site of the modern priory building. This settlement continued in use until just after the Norman conquest of England when the new town of Burford was built. On the site of the old village a hospital was founded which remained open until the Dissolution of the Monasteries by King Henry VIII. The modern priory building was constructed some 40 years later, in around 1580.
Local legend of Burford
Local legend tells of a fiery coach containing the judge and local landowner Sir Lawrence Tanfield of Burford Priory and his wife flying around the town that brings a curse upon all who see it. Ross Andrews speculates that the apparition may have been caused by a local tradition of burning effigies of the unpopular couple that began after their deaths. In real life Tanfield and his second wife Elizabeth Evans are known to have been notoriously harsh to their tenants. The visitations were reportedly ended when local clergymen trapped Lady Tanfield's ghost in a corked glass bottle during an exorcism and cast it into the River Windrush. During droughts locals would fill the river from buckets to ensure that the bottle did not rise above the surface and free the spirit.
Haunting of:Burford Priory& Old Rectory
The site of the old monks' graveyard is reportedly haunted by a small brown solemn looking monk surrounded by an aura of sadness, who is said to pass through walls. The monk is often linked to the sound of bells which are reported coming from the old rectory at 2am, occasionally accompanied by the sound of chanting.
Gamekeeper
A second ghost reported on the grounds, particularly around the old vegetable garden, is that of an elderly gentleman in old fashioned clothing carrying a flintlock or blunderbuss who is seen late in the evenings during the month of October but vanishes if approached. The apparition has been linked by Puttick and Yurdan to a gamekeeper wrongly executed for the murder of a servant to William Lenthall (or Lord Abercomb) called John Prior (or Pryor). Puttick reports that the ghost has not been sighted since the nuns took up residence in 1949 and speculates that their prayers may have put it to rest.
Poltergeist
An unused room in the Priory is also reported to contain an active poltergeist and a feeling of oppression.
Burford Priory stands on the site of a 13th century Augustinian hospital. In the 1580s an Elizabethan house was built incorporating remnants of the priory hospital. In the 17th century it was remodelled in Jacobean style, probably after 1637 when the estate had been bought by William Lenthall, Speaker of the House of Commons in the Long Parliament. The house and later the chapel were restored for the philanthropist Emslie John Horniman, M.P., after 1912, by the architect Walter Godfrey. It contains much interesting work of that period.
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CH 6 (1/8) - British Dragon Legends
First part of the sixth chapter of historian Frederick William Hackwood's study of dragonlore.
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THE dragon appeared prominently in some of the old London pageants. It was generally a huge paste-board contraption, gilded and painted to look as ferocious as possible ; hollow so that a man (or sometimes two men) could get inside to fill the legs for the walking action. Frequently the masked actor inside had other practical tricks to work, as spitting fire from the dragon's nostrils, or lashing its tail in fury, and other antics besides, some to appear natural to the beast, others for humorous effect and intended to make the crowds laugh.
In olden times Ascension Day was the Church festival most commonly associated with dragon legends. At the Rogation days immediately preceding it was customary for the clergy, accompanied by the church officers and people, to perambulate the parish boundaries, and at certain prescribed spots to offer prayers for the fruitfulness of the fields and a plenteous yield at the following harvest ; and also to beseech protection from the malevolent spirit of all evil. Emblematical of this infernal spirit the image of the dragon was carried in the procession ; on the third and last day of the processioning this effigy was beaten and kicked, buffeted and stoned, and treated in every way with the utmost insult and ignominy.
In some English parishes are places bearing such names as Dragon's Well or Dragon Rock, which indicate the spots where the processions made some of their prescribed stops.
London, of course, had its municipal dragon. Thus is an old chronicle describing the Lord Mayor of London's procession from Greenwich to Westminster, escorting Anne Boleyn to her coronation, we read : Fifty barges were filled by the various city companies, and followed the Lord Mayor's barge, marshalled by three light wherries with officers. Before the mayor's barge came another barge full of ordnance, and containing a huge dragon (intended to stand for the rouge dragon in the Tudor arms) which vomited wild fire ; and round about it stood terrible monsters and savages also vomiting fire, discharging squibs, and making hideous noises.
In the city procession of 1672 the pageant was saluted over against Bow Church by two griffins, those being the supporters in the arms of the Grocer's Company, to which body the new Lord Mayor, Sir Robert Hanson, belonged.
Than Snap no more fitting name could be devised for a devouring dragon, and this was the name by which in former days the famous civic dragon of Norwich was known. Snap was a magnificent reptile, built of cardboard, all glittering in green and gold, who every year on the Tuesday before St. John the Baptist's Day (June 23) went in procession with the Mayor and Corporation, guarded by four whifflers (or maskers) and accompanied by gay banners and bands of music. He was a very witty and amusing dragon, and always delighted the crowd by his antics.
On the arrival of the procession at the cathedral, Snap was never allowed to enter the sacred edifice, but sat on a big stone outside, called the Dragon-stone ; where he waited till the service was over, when he resumed his place in the procession and returned with it to the Town Hall.
At Burford in Oxfordshire it was a much-honoured old custom to make up yearly the effigy of a huge dragon and to carry it up and down the town in great jollity on Midsummer Eve.
The origin of the practice was lost in the obscurity of the past, but is quite plausibly said to have been instituted to commemorate a signal victory gained at that place in the year 750 by Cuthred (or Cuthbert), a tributary king of the West Saxons, over Ethelbald the Proud, King of Mercia, whose insupportable exactions the former had been unable any longer to endure.
The victor captured, after a desperate struggle, the banner of Ethelbald, on which was depicted a golden dragon, and the form of commemoration is said to have been inspired by this device. In the old village morris dances, along with Robin Hood, Friar Tuck, the hobby-horse, and other familiar characters of mediaeval pageantry, a dragon was sometimes introduced as one of the rarer features ; the hobby-horse was then supposed to represent St. George. In a mummers' play at Steyning the dragon took a prominent part, for all fought him at once - a heterogeneous company of heroes and champions, including St. George, King Cole, King Alfred and his bride, Giant Blunderbore, Little Jack, and the Morris Fool. In Cornish versions there is nearly always a dragon to fight with St. George and the Dragon was introduced in the London May games.
Burford, Oxfordshire on a warm June evening, 2010
Burford, Oxfordshire
St. Olave, Hart Street: Stedman Triples
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St. Pauls Cathedral: Stedman Cinques
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Kirkburton Church
Bells peel in memory of Tower Master Les Hannam. 2/11/17