THE PRIORY: UNRAVELLING THE NEVILLE LINEAGE
QUEST 23: ST MARY'S CHURCH. STAINDROP: This church which houses many of Alek's family, was not far from where we were staying on this occasion, in Teesdale.
Alek explains fully the Neville lineage in great detail and his own connection to this enigmatic bloodline. He also hints at the Neville connection to the 'Rose' and of the connections to Priory, the Free Masons and to the Knight Templars.
Folks following our quests can no doubt 'join the dots here and discover the truths of our 'so called' history emerging.'
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Staindrop Village Flyover
This is the beautiful village of Staindrop in County Durham.
St Mary's church is Anglo-Saxon which was built in the 10th or 11th century. The church contains monuments including effigies of members of the Neville family.
Raby Castle and its gardens are to the north of Staindrop. The village has a Spar shop, a post office, Simon's Butchers and a great and very friendly car service centre (Louis Smith Motors), a recently renovated community hall (Scarth Hall), a newly developed children's playground, and the best drinking establishment for miles around, the Wheatsheaf Inn (or commonly referred to as the Top House).
About 3 miles north-west of the village is Raby Old Lodge, a medieval tower house built for the Neville family of Raby Castle. It was restored in the 19th century and now used as holiday accommodation.
The surveyor Jeremiah Dixon, who with Charles Mason calculated and laid out the Mason–Dixon line in North America, is buried in Staindrop. His unmarked grave is in the Quaker burial ground adjoining the old Friends' Meeting House. Thomas Pynchon's historical fiction novel Mason & Dixon mentions Staindrop as containing Jeremiah Dixon's favourite public house.
st mary and st cuthberts church chester le street
The church was established to house the body of Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, Bishop of Lindisfarne from 684 to 687. After his death he became one of the most venerated saints of the time, with a significant cultus and the Venerable Bede writing both a verse and prose biography of him. So when driven out of Lindisfarne by Viking raids in 875 the monks took St Cuthbert's coffin along with other valuable items. They wandered for seven years before eventually settling at Chester-le-Street (then called Cunecaster or Conceastre), at the site of the old Roman fort of Concangis, in 883,[1] on land granted to them by Guthred.[2][3]
They built a wooden church and shrine for St Cuthbert's relics, dedicating it to St Mary and St Cuthbert. Though there was no shortage of stone in the ruins of Concangis they did not build a stone church; it has been suggested they did not intend to stay for as long as they eventually did. It was built within the Roman fort, which although abandoned over five hundred years before may have still offered some protection,[4] as well as access north and south along Cade's Road and to the sea by the River Wear.
This was also a cathedral as it contained the seat of the bishop, for the diocese (sometimes known as Lindisfarne and sometimes as Cuncacestre the Latin name for Chester-le-Street) stretching between the boundaries of Danelaw at Teesside in the south, of Alba at Lothian in the north and the Irish sea in the west. The bishop's authority was confirmed by Alfred the Great,[5] and for the next 112 years the community was based here, visited by kings Æthelstan and Edmund, who both left gifts for the community, to add to the treasures brought from Lindisfarne.
Most notable among their treasures were the Lindisfarne Gospels, created in Lindisfarne around 715. While here they were translated from Latin into English, sometime between 947 and 968, by bishop Aldred writing a gloss in Old English above the text, making them the oldest surviving English translation of the Gospels.[6][7][8] The Gospels and St Cuthbert's coffin were here until 995, when renewed Viking raids drove the monks out, to Ripon before returning to the more easily defended Durham,[9] where they eventually built a stone cathedral around St Cuthbert's remains.[10] The wooden church remained in place until replaced by a stone church in the mid 11th century.[4]
Church building[edit]
The oldest parts of the building that can be dated, to 1056 when a stone church was built to replace the wooden shrine to St Cuthbert, are the walls of the chancel and the two largest pillars now near the centre of the nave. The church then would have been a third shorter and much narrower, as wide as the chancel today. Lewis holes visible in two stones on a front buttress show that Roman stone was used in later construction.[11]
The church was extended around 1267 with the nave, the lower part of the tower and east wall with sedilia all dating from this time. In 1286 it was made a collegiate church,[12][13] with a dean, seven canons, five chaplains and three deacons, supported by tithes from extensive endowments throughout a large parish. Around 1383 an anchorage was added in one corner of the church, to be used by six (male) anchorites until 1547, when it was extended. It is now the Ankers House Museum.[14] A 158 feet (48 m) spire and belfry and three bells were added in 1409, one of which is still in use.[12][13]
The collegiate church was dissolved during the reformation and the church became a parish church with reduced wealth and influence. In subsequent years much of the money for building came from donations, with those of the Lumley and Lambton families particularly notable. John Lumley contributed a set of family effigies that now lie along the north wall in 1595. A new south porch was added in 1742, while in 1829 a Lambton family pew by Ignatius Bonomi was added above a new vault (which once held the remains of John Lambton) with an external staircase.[12][13]
In 1862 major restorations were undertaken, and the church became a rectory with the installation of an organ in 1865, later restored by Harrison & Harrison.[15] To celebrate the church's millennium a screen was installed in 1883, along with other alterations. In 1927 a reredos, panelling and a bishop's throne by Sir Charles Nicholson and three panels, Journey of St Cuthbert's body, by his brother Archibald Keightley Nicholson were added. The church became a Grade 1 listed building in 1950, and doors were added to the South Porch in 1964.[12][13]
staindrop carnival 2015
sorry this is a bit crap and has swears wasn't going too upload but nobody else did
ST MARYS CEMETERY HEWORTH GATESHEAD
Gainford Darlington 8-10-10
Chartham Village
Drone test following the boy playing football.
St Aidans Church Bamburgh May 2016
St Aidans Church, Bamburgh on bell ringing practice night. May 2016.
The Bells of Lincoln Carhedral
Cycle ride around Church Leigh, Staffordshire (part 1)
The first part of four clips showing the Village of Church Leigh and surrounding area. Filmed with a Drift HD 170 camera mounted on the handle bar
Tadcaster Church
Saturday 9th June 2012 Sutton on Trent Bell Ringing Outing.
The Bells of St. Paul's
A group of English tourists warm up with a little change ringing exercise at St. Paul's Church in Riverside, Illinois, on Sept. 28. The group of 16 or so folks from England were in the midst of a 17-day bell-ringing tour of the eastern U.S. and Canada,. St. Paul's is often a stop for such groups of bell ringing enthusiasts.
The Apartment Masham
The Apartment, Masham is available to rent from theapartmentmasham.co.uk
Some OK three bell ringing at Walkeringham, Nottinghamshire
St Mary Magdelene in Walkeringham has a ring of three bells, the tenor weighing 12-2-2 in F.
1. James Harrison III 1809
2 Henry Oldfield II 1606
3. Henry Oldfield I 1586
There is some Plain Hunt. The ringing chamber here is used a storage space. I put my camera in a flower stand and the big thing sticking into the picture is a block of flower arrangers oasis!
Tywardreath Church Bells Ringing Plain Bob Minor
Tywardreath Church Bells Ringing Plain Bob Minor
Maidstone All Saints - Bob Major half muffled
Bellringing - Part of a half-muffled quarter peal on the heavy 8 (32cwt) of the 10 at the Collegiate Church of All Saints, Maidstone: prior to the Funeral Directors' Memorial Service on Sunday 1st December 2013
Bellringing at Reading, St Mary, Berkshire.
Most of a course of London Surprise Major being rung on the Majestic bells of St Mary's in the Town Centre.
Bell-ringing at Wicken, Buckinghamshire
This group visits different churches every month. This time at St. John's in Wicken, Buckinghamshire. Apparently they don't just let anyone play here :)
London S Major at Lymington, Hants
A couple of excerpts from a quarter peal of London Major on this good old-fashioned 8, a good effort for the last quarter of the day! The bells are a mix of 1785 Wells of Aldbourne with 3 bells cast by Taylors in 1901; the old bells don't sound especially good individually but work very well as a ring!
Tenor 20-1-3 in Eflat
Old Road, Mottram-in-Longdendale - WC Dawson Property Video
Video tour showing a superb3 bedroom detached family home for sale on Old Road in Mottram-in-Longdendale, for sale by WC Dawson Estate Agents