Investigation of the grounds of St Nicholas' Church and the ruins of St Mary's Abbey, Kenilworth, UK
Lone visit to the grounds of St Nicholas' Church and the ruins of St Mary's Abbey, Kenilworth, Warwickshire. Friday 1st November 2013, approx. 3am.
IR lamp, full spectrum video camera and PSB7 audio recording (antenna removed and operated within a Faraday bag)
Making my way through the graveyard in the pitch black, upon reaching the ruined gatehouse of the abbey, I was disappointed to find it cordoned off for construction work.
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Location: Kenilworth,Warks UK - St Nicholas church and the avenued path which leads to Bridge Street; Area around the former site of the abbey and the Church of St Mary (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting manifestation; Audible phenomena; Curse
Date of paranormal occurrence: Monks - unknown; Disembodied chanting - late 1970s, 1990s; Doppelgängers - 1997
Further Comments: A procession of phantom monks is reported to have been seen leaving the west door of the parish church, moving slowly down the avenue of trees that leads down to Abbey Field. At the end of the avenue, the procession turns left and continues for a few yards before vanishing. The spot where they disappear was revealed during the excavations to be the main entrance to the Abbey church.
One particular phantom is thought to haunt the area around the ruined abbey and is said to be without a face.
People have claimed to hear the faint sounds of chanting and choral singing while resting in the old ruined church.
Two people in the St Nicholas' graveyard during 1997 thought they were being followed. They stopped, only to realise that the people behind them were them, going through the motions of their own actions moments earlier.
Geoffrey De Clinton promised that if anyone ever tried to take away the land around the church they would be cursed by God - a series of disasters befell many people and companies which tried to redevelop the land during the late twentieth century.
Wreath ceremony at the Polish memorial, St. Nicholas Church cemetery, Murnau, Germany
Part of the commemoration events surrounding the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Oflag VII-A included a wreath laying ceremony at the St. Nicholas Church cemetery in Murnau, Germany.
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St Nicholas Church, Nottingham
The current building dates from 1671, but the church which originally stood on this site is said to be the place Robin Hood would both hide and use to worship. In the very earliest ballads about Robin Hood he declares bishops and archbishops (plus of course the Sheriff of Nottingham), to be his main enemies. But we also learn from those ballads that Robin would pray on a daily basis to the Virgin Mary.
St Nicholas Church stands in what was the predominantly Saxon part of town after the uprisings which followed the Norman Conquest. If Robin Hood was indeed linked in some way to those who lost lands and property to Norman lords, then he may well have felt safer amongst the company he found here.
The forgotten graves of Culworth Church
A site survey. Culworth church, dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, is located in the village of Culworth, Northamptonshire, England. Built as early as 1200 AD, possibly on the site of a Saxon church. Culworth has some very interesting Graves, some dating back to the Victorian and Georgian eras. Culworth church lies next to Culworth Burgh, a defensive Saxon encampment.
Many of the beautiful old Gravestones in the Graveyard are in a poor state of decay and abandonment. Untended in decades, the names illegible, the stone pockmarked with exposure to time and the elements. This upload is to serve posterity, to record the last remaining Gravestones in Culworth church before time eventually takes its toll and the last few Gravestones are removed.
Within 25 years most churches in the country will finally lose their Georgian and Victorian Gravestones - and once they are gone they are gone forever.
The forgotten graves of Culworth church.
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The forgotten Saxon Burgh of Culworth
Congresbury St Andrew, Part II by Sheila, May 5th 2016
A beautiful church with magnificent stain glass windows---well loved
Liapunov - Orthodox Church Bells (Carillon, Op. 11, No. 3) played by Vladimir Drozdov ca 1910
I am delighted to post this rare piano roll recording; with a debt of thanks to my friends at Stanford University for the privilege. As a lifelong student of Russian Piano Music, I realize this recording is representative of all things beautiful; historically noteworthy and of great artistic value.
The following may be commonly known; but will be referenced from a personal perspective and for general interest purposes.
Within the Russian Orthodox Church, there is a profound Symbolism associated with the ringing of bells. It is virtually a part of this Christian Church's Core.
I was very fortunate to experience the Russian Orthodox Churches in Manhattan; particularly the Cathedral of Saint Nicholas. My paternal Aunt, Louise M. Guerth, was a devout Christian. She was also a True New Yorker, and had survived the Great Depression, as a single woman, a practicing Chiropractor.
Aunt Lou embraced multiple branches of Christianity. We frequently drove to her West End Ave. apartment on Sundays, and attended church together. Frequently the destination was Saint Nicholas' Cathedral.
I will never forget the feeling of the Great Russian Carillons..the Bells. It is more than a sound; truly it is a feeling; and it is Spiritual. There are no words to describe it; but there is music.
Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church was constructed through funding by none other than Czar Nicholas of Russia...the Last Czar of Imperial Russia. The Romanov Family. Talk about HISTORY.
I believe the Rachmaninov family attended services at Saint Nicholas. While still in Russia, Rachmaninov had composed an extremely beautiful Secular Cantata and Symphonic Poem entitled The Bells. Also, one of his Piano Etudes Tableaux features what I regard as the most effective (and spectacular) adaptation of the piano to produce a bell-like sound; specifically in open ninth chord fragments played double forte, with both hands.
Sergei Liapunov was another extremely great Russian Piano Composer, of the Old Saint Petersburg School. His music has been unfortunately neglected; but its musical value is remarkable. Imagine Liszt as a Russian....then you have an idea of Liapunov; but of course not the entire picture.
Liszt was an influence on Liapunov, from a piano standpoint. However, Liapunov's greatest influence was his own Mother Russia. Like all composers of the Old St. Petersburg School, both his National and Spiritual fervor were titanic.
The Carillon; by Liapunov; is one of his Twelve Etudes d'Execution Transcendante. The idea was nabbed from Liszt; basically a set of Studies starting out very difficult; and ending out extremely difficult! When one hears Liapunov's Bells, remember it is but the third Study. There are nine more of transcendentally progressive difficulty still to go....
Liapunov's music is quite rare in any form. Even though it was picked up by the Zimmermann firm in Frankfurt, the sales were apparently just not good (probably on account of the high difficulty level). Through Zimmermann, Liapunov actually had good exposure to Western audiences; but the public must not have been as receptive towards the repertoire. Fortunately most Liapunov did make it to American and European Libraries.
The artist on this Red Welte piano roll (likely recorded by Freiburg personnel on assignment in either Moscow or St. Petersburg, ca. 1910); was one Vladimir Drozdov (1882-1960).
This great Russian Pianist emigrated to the United States a few years after Rachmaninov (1922). Drozdov was a great Composer as well; and although his works are not widely known, certainly they should be.
Apparently Drozdov recorded a total of five titles for Welte. Until the Stanford discovery, I was unaware any of these had survived. I am so very thankful that it was the Liapunov recording; for this indeed is a priceless treasure. In my personal opinion.
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T. E. LAWRENCE - Documentary
'''Thomas Edward Lawrence''', (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British [[archaeologist]], military officer, diplomat, and writer. He was renowned for his liaison role during the [[Sinai and Palestine Campaign]] and the [[Arab Revolt]] against the [[Ottoman Empire]] during the [[First World War]]. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as '''Lawrence of Arabia'''—a title used for [[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|the 1962 film]] based on his wartime activities.
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