The Enigmatic Dacre Bears, St Andrew's Church, Cumbria
The four stone Dacre Bears or Lions have stood in the graveyard since before the 18th century and are an unsolved mystery as to their purpose and age. They may be boundary or charter stones and could date from before Anglo-Saxon times. They all have incised cups on their heads that suggests use of the water or stone dust for curative or other purposes.
The sequence of statues are out of order but the story is accurate.
Dacre Church of St Andrews, Dacre, 'A Re Visit by Sheila'PART B, 2014 wmv
It was good to be able to record the Hasell memorials within St Andrew's church at Dacre in Cumbria---8 years earlier I first visited the church and did take many photos and attached them to an audio that I did at the same time--in the days before I had a video camera I frequently used an audio recorder and then created a video by adding the photos-------not perfect now but a record for the family tree that I have been researching for quite a few years now----the Hasells of Dalemain in Cumbria and the Hasells of Bottisham in Cambridgeshire---We share common ancestors. The Hasells of Dalemain were originally from Cambridgeshire and Suffolk and possibly from Germany, france or Flanders before---wealthy merchants who settled in the UK.
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Drone flight over Dacre Church, Cumbria.
Dacre, in the Diocese of Carlisle, nestles among the hills of the Lake District National Park, only five miles from the M6 and close to Penrith. Mentioned by Bede in his Ecclesiastical History of 698 AD, St Andrew’s is an historic church with a loyal and friendly congregation which serves four villages. The parish is in one of the most picturesque locations in Cumbria, stretching from the outskirts of the market town of Penrith in the east, to the shores of Lake Ullswater at Dacre.
Guided tours of the church are available for organised groups on request. Please contact us at admin@dacrechurch.com
A Walk To Dacre Church, 'St Andrews', Part IV, by Sheila, 2014
I first came across the Hasell graves and memorials back in 2006---I literally stumbled across them as I entered the churchyard greeted by many sheep.The latter were all over the cemetery munching the grass and very curious to meet me.It was a beautiful site finding the graves--Hasell graves---all my family tree research was verified, recorded and engraved in stone.
8 yars on I return eager to walk from Waterfoot to Dacre and then onto Dalemain.Walking the old track, walking in the footsteps of distant cousins, cousins who share common ancestors with me from Bottisham in Cambridgeshire. So I arrive and in the next videos I make my way past the pele Castle and continue on the old track to,Dalemain----on the return walk I enter the church and create a thorough recording of all the memorials within the church
Dacre Village In The Lake District Cumbria. 1080p HD????
Dacre is a small village, civil parish and electoral ward in the Lake District National Park in the Eden District of Cumbria, England. St. Andrew's Church is well worth a visit and Thanks to the Hores & Farrier Inn for giving me permission to get close up shots. Filmed at a height of 185ft.
Wedding at historic St Andrews Church Penrith Cumbria England UK
July 2017
Greystoke bells
The fine 14th Century Collegiate church of St Andrew, Greystoke has six bells. Three date from before the Reformation, and they were augmented to six bells as one of the Millenium projects for belfries in England
Dacre to Dalemain, 'A Walk Along a Hasell lane in Cumbria', by Sheila, 2014
Walking down a quiet Cumbrian track with my imagination racing---images of horeses and carriages, ladies in fine dresses, the gamekeeper with his dogs, the farm workers toiling in the fields, and the Hasells attending St Andrew's church for Christenings, weddings, burials and funerals. Further back in time Knights in shiny armour arriving at Dacre castle---just love this place---remembering John Hasell, adventurer and outward bound creator--
Haunting History of Naworth Castle, Cumbria, England
Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as Naward,it stands close to Hadrian's Wall and was built to guard the Scottish borderland.
Falling in love and becoming pregnant by the lord of the castle, a local girl committed suicide after being shunned by him after their love affair. Though her mother then cursed the evil lord (resulting in his death, and that of the estate's future heir), the young lass still returns to the site.Another version of the story has Lord Dacre himself as the villain and the girl drowning herself after learning the true identity of her lover. The mother is again the agent of the demise of Dacre and son.
The castle is thought to have late 13th-century origins, in the form of a square keep and bailey. It was first mentioned in 1323, and in 1335 a licence to crenellate was granted to Ralph Dacre.
Thomas Dacre (1467-1525), who commanded the reserve of the English army at the Battle of Flodden and was known as the Builder Dacre, built the castle's gateway and placed over it his coat of arms with the Dacre family motto below: Fort en Loialte (Norman-French: Strong in Loyalty). There were further additions in 1602, for his successor Lord William Howard. It is likely that the 18th-century walled garden lies within the boundaries of the original moat.
Howard was known for hanging Scots — as many as 63 in a two-year time span. The hangman’s tree is still on the estate. A notable occupant of his priest hole was a Catholic activist by the name of Nicholas Roscarrock. Roscarrock is said to have been the last man to die on the rack. Some of the Howards spent a lot of time in the Tower of London. One of them, Sir Philip Howard, spent 13 years there; he was later canonised a Catholic saint.
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St Mary's Easebourne - Church of England - Dear Lord and Father of Mankind - Kirkja
St Mary's Easebourne - Church of England - Midhurst, West Sussex, GU29 OAH - Hymn - Dear Lord and Father of Mankind - Funeral 22 February 2017. A beautiful church in lovely setting on the Cowdray Park Estate. Easebourne village, is a half a mile from the bridge over River Rother on the cross-roads located in the heart of the South Downs National Park, on the outskirts of Midhurst West Sussex England - surrounded by some of the finest British countryside. Easebourne pronounced Ezborn, is a village and civil parish in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England. The village contains several old houses but they have all been more or less reconditioned or in some cases rebuilt by the Cowdray Estates. Many of the buildings in the area around Easebourne and Midhurst have these distinctive yellow window frames, which signify that the buildings belong to the local Cowdray Estate. Jarðaför í gamalli sveitakirkju í þorpinu Easebourne í Suður Englandi í West Sussex.
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St Mary’s Easebourne sits at the heart of the South Downs National Park. Set in stunning countryside and within the historic village of Easebourne, the church places itself at the heart of community life. See more:
The church of ST. MARY, formerly also the conventual church of the priory, stands at the gate of Cowdray Park on the east side of the village; the tower is of rubble, the modern exterior work of hammer-dressed ashlar, the dressings are of freestone, and the roofs tiled. To a nave and chancel of the 11th century there was added in the 12th a narrow north aisle and tower. In the 13th, on the establishment of the priory, the chancel was rebuilt, the east part of the nave was enclosed by walls to form the nuns' choir, and the north aisle was widened to its present dimensions for parish use. After the Suppression in the 16th century, the roofs of the nuns' choir and chancel were removed; that of the latter was replaced in 1830 to form a tombhouse, that of the former in 1876, when its former dividing walls were removed and the present chancel and organ chamber were added. he Montague tomb-house (modern except the south wall, which is part of the priory building) has in its east wall a doorway and a three-light window in late-13th-century style; on the west it opens into the former nuns' choir by an arch of two orders, the inner moulded, resting on semi-octagonal responds with moulded caps and bases in a rather nondescript Gothic style. The marble and alabaster monument of Anthony, Viscount Montague (died 1592) and his two wives occupies the east end of this building, whither it was removed from Midhurst (and its structure considerably altered) in 1851. It is in two stages; the eastern, the higher, has three semicircular arches supporting a slab on which, before a cubical block bearing his epitaph, kneels the effigy of the viscount, bareheaded, bearded, and wearing a ruff and the mantle and collar of the Order of the Garter over armour of the tasset period. On the lower stage, west of this, rest the effigies of his two wives, Jane Ratcliffe and Margaret Dacre, in mantles and kirtles; on the front of this stage, which is in the form of a chest tomb, are their epitaphs; at each end are small kneeling effigies of their descendants, some headless.On the outside of the south wall of the former nuns' choir and nave (the distinction between them has been obliterated) is a Mass dial; west of it are a modern three-light window in 14th-century style and the remains of the original south doorway, now blocked but showing part of a semicircular arch; immediately west of this is the present south doorway, of the 13th century, formerly the nuns' entrance to their choir, having a pointed arch on plain jambs; next are a lancet window in 13th-century style and a three-light window with Perpendicular tracery, both modern.
That the original church of Easebourne was a pre Conquest 'hundredal' church, like that of Singleton, is probable from its having attached to it in 1291, and as late as 1535, the chapels of Midhurst, Fernhurst, Lodsworth, and Todham. The earliest reference to it is in a deed of c. 1105, by which Savaric fitz Cane and Muriel his wife gave the church of 'Isenburne' to the Norman Abbey of Séez. If this grant was effective the church must have been recovered by one of Savaric's successors, as in the 13th century the founder of Easebourne Priory (probably Sir John de Bohun) gave the church to the nuns, by whom it was held in 1291. There are four bells; one by Roger Landen (c. 1450) inscribed Te Deum Laudamus; one of the 16th century—sancta anna ora pro nobis; and two by William Eldridge, 1677. See more:
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Manor Park Cemetery, H , John Henry Wood 1869-1947, April 2013
I never met my paternal Grandfather who died before I was even born--he had been a fishmonger as was his father and Grandfather and before that we have a Joseph Wood who in 1841 census is described as a butcher. Sadly, like my maternal grandparents, John Henry lies in a shared grave with strangers and he may have had a stone but this may be entwined in a bush roots. It was a strange feeling finding my Grandparents like this having never known them nor they me. Following WWII my mother, daughter -in- law of John Henry, decided to stay in Somerset where 7 years after the war I was born--a Somerset lass with deep London roots--all my grandparents were Londoners as were their parents except one --my Great Grandmother Mary Ann Oak Brooks from Cambridgeshire who married a Steib---I have yet to find their graves-------I call this great grandmother my Gatekeeper because from her I have been able to trace my tree back 1000 years and beyond.
It would have been great to have known my grandparents,and my Mother who died when I was 14 and I only discovered her resting place after about 45 years........However,via 'Deceased Online' I am beginning to find many of my relatives --many are buried here at Manor Park Cemetery, many no longer have visible grave stones, many share a grave with strangers but are not alone. Cemeteries and gravestones are so important to people for a number of reasons, they are records. London has been described as one massive cemetery because over centuries there have been many deaths, many burials, many churches. As I walk around Manor Park I do not feel alone , I feel others are walking with me, helping me to find my extended family. Finding my family like this is so important and enriches the Family Tree allowing my dead Ancestors to come alive, become real--after all they once walked the Earth, lived, laughed , cried and were baptized, married and buried--had social existences, experienced social events in history, passed on their knowledge, their DNA...
Just recently the present Government have announced plans for shared graves-----typical ignorance or avoidance because shared graves have always existed and what I call 'rubblization and churning' are taking place here at Manor Park Cemetery---re-landscaping, renaming of plots and then the burial of recent dead people on top of those that lie beneath the ground---the stones have gone but thousands of dead people now lay forgotten under the ground until people start researching their family tree, like me, and find plot names have changed on the burial maps and very little information---I found a small area stacked with old grave stones and memorials which family could claim within a set time BUT this is not advertised or made known...I have family members --quite a few with no obvious evidence of their burials e.g.both my Smith great grandparents and aunts and uncles are now not recorded on the burial maps despite being under the ground---I expect old burial maps will show the location...
Lord, When We Bend Before Thy Throne (Burford)
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Lord, When We Bend Before Thy Throne (Burford)
Text by: Joseph Dacre Carlyle 1802
Tune: Burford from: Chetham's Psalmody 1718
Source: Episcopal 1940 Hymnal #410
Here is my complete recording of the Episcopal 1940 Hymnbook:
1 Lord, when we bend before Thy throne,
And our confessions pour,
Teach us to feel the sins we own,
And hate what we deplore.
2 Our broken spirits, pitying see;
True penitence impart;
And let a kindling glance from Thee
Beam hope upon the heart.
3 When we disclose our wants in prayer,
May we our wills resign;
And not a thought our bosoms share
That is not wholly Thine.
4 Let faith each weak petition fill
And waft it to the skies,
And teach our hearts ’tis goodness still
That grants it, or denies.
5 When our responsive tongues essay
Their grateful hymns to raise,
Grant that our souls may join the lay
And mount to Thee in praise.
6 Then on Thy glories, while we dwell,
Thy mercies we’ll renew,
Till love divine transported tell
Our God’s our Father, too.
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St Mary's Easebourne - Church of England - Graveyard - Kirkjugarður
Kirkjugarður - St Mary's Easebourne Graveyard - Church of England - Midhurst, West Sussex, GU29 OAH - Gömul kirkja í þorpinu Easebourne í Suður Englandi í West Sussex. Sveitakirkja þar sem Billie Piper giftist Laurence Fox. Wedding Church of Billie Piper and Laurence Fox. A beautiful church in lovely setting on the Cowdray Park Estate. Easebourne village, is a half a mile from the bridge over River Rother on the cross-roads located in the heart of the South Downs National Park, on the outskirts of Midhurst West Sussex England - surrounded by some of the finest British countryside. Easebourne pronounced Ezborn, is a village and civil parish in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England. The village contains several old houses but they have all been more or less reconditioned or in some cases rebuilt by the Cowdray Estates. Many of the buildings in the area around Easebourne and Midhurst have these distinctive yellow window frames, which signify that the buildings belong to the local Cowdray Estate.
St Mary’s Easebourne sits at the heart of the South Downs National Park. Set in stunning countryside and within the historic village of Easebourne, the church places itself at the heart of community life. See more:
The church of ST. MARY, formerly also the conventual church of the priory, stands at the gate of Cowdray Park on the east side of the village; the tower is of rubble, the modern exterior work of hammer-dressed ashlar, the dressings are of freestone, and the roofs tiled. To a nave and chancel of the 11th century there was added in the 12th a narrow north aisle and tower. In the 13th, on the establishment of the priory, the chancel was rebuilt, the east part of the nave was enclosed by walls to form the nuns' choir, and the north aisle was widened to its present dimensions for parish use. After the Suppression in the 16th century, the roofs of the nuns' choir and chancel were removed; that of the latter was replaced in 1830 to form a tombhouse, that of the former in 1876, when its former dividing walls were removed and the present chancel and organ chamber were added. he Montague tomb-house (modern except the south wall, which is part of the priory building) has in its east wall a doorway and a three-light window in late-13th-century style; on the west it opens into the former nuns' choir by an arch of two orders, the inner moulded, resting on semi-octagonal responds with moulded caps and bases in a rather nondescript Gothic style. The marble and alabaster monument of Anthony, Viscount Montague (died 1592) and his two wives occupies the east end of this building, whither it was removed from Midhurst (and its structure considerably altered) in 1851. It is in two stages; the eastern, the higher, has three semicircular arches supporting a slab on which, before a cubical block bearing his epitaph, kneels the effigy of the viscount, bareheaded, bearded, and wearing a ruff and the mantle and collar of the Order of the Garter over armour of the tasset period. On the lower stage, west of this, rest the effigies of his two wives, Jane Ratcliffe and Margaret Dacre, in mantles and kirtles; on the front of this stage, which is in the form of a chest tomb, are their epitaphs; at each end are small kneeling effigies of their descendants, some headless.On the outside of the south wall of the former nuns' choir and nave (the distinction between them has been obliterated) is a Mass dial; west of it are a modern three-light window in 14th-century style and the remains of the original south doorway, now blocked but showing part of a semicircular arch; immediately west of this is the present south doorway, of the 13th century, formerly the nuns' entrance to their choir, having a pointed arch on plain jambs; next are a lancet window in 13th-century style and a three-light window with Perpendicular tracery, both modern.
That the original church of Easebourne was a pre Conquest 'hundredal' church, like that of Singleton, is probable from its having attached to it in 1291, and as late as 1535, the chapels of Midhurst, Fernhurst, Lodsworth, and Todham. The earliest reference to it is in a deed of c. 1105, by which Savaric fitz Cane and Muriel his wife gave the church of 'Isenburne' to the Norman Abbey of Séez. If this grant was effective the church must have been recovered by one of Savaric's successors, as in the 13th century the founder of Easebourne Priory (probably Sir John de Bohun) gave the church to the nuns, by whom it was held in 1291. There are four bells; one by Roger Landen (c. 1450) inscribed Te Deum Laudamus; one of the 16th century—sancta anna ora pro nobis; and two by William Eldridge, 1677. See more:
The trouble with this country is the Daily Mail
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Filmed at the Royal Geographical Society on 25th February 2016.
Immigrant-bashing, woman-hating, Muslim-smearing, NHS-undermining, gay-baiting”. That’s how one critic has described the Daily Mail. It depicts a world where traditional British values are under siege – from the EU, rising crime, and benefit scroungers – and it assures its readers that they are not alone in their anxieties. It loves nothing more than a good health scare. According to the Mail, almost everything causes cancer (116 items at the last count, including salami, flipflops and chimney sweeping). As for women, they are castigated for trying to ‘have it all’, and any female celebrity who ‘dares to bare’ on the beach is subjected to microscopic scrutiny of her physique. Perhaps most worrying of all is the power the Mail holds over our politicians. “What would the Mail say?” is the question ministers ask themselves when considering any liberal policy that might get a slap-down from the paper. Making the case against the Mail in this debate will be Zoe Williams of the Guardian and the Rev Richard Coles, the former popstar who is now a parish priest and much-loved Radio 4 presenter.
On the other side of the argument we have Daily Mail columnist Peter Oborne and Roger Alton, former editor of the left-leaning Observer newspaper. As they will point out, the Mail is the UK’s most popular newspaper in print and online. Millions of ‘ordinary’ people read it because it understands and articulates their concerns better than other papers. Mail readers are decent, hardworking people, struggling to pay their bills, ambitious for their children and loyal to their country. Hatred of the Mail comes largely from the liberal elite who sneer at unfashionable types who don’t work at the BBC or the Guardian. The Mail may be hard on immigrants and celebrities, but it has served this country time and again by exposing the wrongdoings of the rich and powerful. And it has a fine track record as a campaigning newspaper, most famously bringing the killers of Stephen Lawrence to justice by naming them murderers and challenging them to sue.
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The enigmatic Knowlton Church
Set in rolling Dorset countryside this ruin is in the centre of a Neolithic Earthworks. It features in books about the paranormal with many things being experienced over the years. It was a pleasure to walk about, enjoying the morning sunshine and the gorgeous views.
Morpeth Church celebrates £160,000 revamp
WORSHIPPERS have celebrated the completion of a £160,000 redevelopment at their Morpeth Church, Northumberland.
The New Life Christian Centre in Dacre Street has undergone major works over the last year.
They have included repairs to cracked walls, removal of a false ceiling, new lighting, underfloor heating, plus the installation of a state-of-the-art sound and vision system.
The official ‘opening’ was performed by Wansbeck MP Ian Lavery.
Beautiful bird's-eye view of Little Salkeld village Cumbria
little Salkeld is a small village within the Eden district of Cumbria, England, a few miles to the northeast of Penrith and within the parish of Hunsonby. And the 18th Century watermill is worth a visit for all round good food with a friendly welcome.
St Mary’s Churchyard Droitwich
Inspired by Paul Jones who is writing a book on history of St Mary’s Churchyard ive put this footage together of the churchyard for everyone to enjoy.
April 2016
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