St Mary's Church, Berkeley, Gloucestershire.
On this beautiful day I walked around this Church. Such an interesting Church.
see in the inside in 360°
A striking 13th century church standing beside Berkeley Castle. The church is notable for its medieval wall paintings, detached tower, table tombs, and memorials to the Berkeley family.
There has been a church here as early as the Saxon period, but the present St Mary's dates primarily to the 13th and 14th centuries. The sheer size of the church is striking, situated as it is in such a small village. More unusual is the detatched tower, a feature more commonly found on the European continent but rarely in England. The tower is 17th century, and stands on the site of an earlier church.
Civil War
Though it stands in a peaceful wooded glade beside the entry to Berkeley Castle, St Mary's has not always been a peaceful place; during the English Civil War the Royalist forces defending Berkeley Castle used the church as an outer defensive perimeter for their defense of the castle. The marks of bullets fired by the attacking Parliamentary forces can be seen in the west door. The defenders of the church were eventually overcome, and the Parliamentary army raised cannon to the church roof, overlooking the castle, and the castle was forced to surrender.
7 February 2019 St Mary's Church Berkeley, Gloucestershire
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Filmed with Insta 360 ONE camera.
A striking 13th century church standing beside Berkeley Castle. The church is notable for its medieval wall paintings, detached tower, table tombs, and memorials to the Berkeley family.
There has been a church here as early as the Saxon period, but the present St Mary's dates primarily to the 13th and 14th centuries. The sheer size of the church is striking, situated as it is in such a small village. More unusual is the detatched tower, a feature more commonly found on the European continent but rarely in England. The tower is 17th century, and stands on the site of an earlier church.(from above website)
Heritage from Southern Parts of England
This video is a photography presentation of some of the heritage sites from Southern parts of England from my Spring-Summer trip this year.
Disclaimer: All the pictures have been shot and edited in basic Samsung mobile. Hence the quality is not up to the expectation. I hope that can be forgiven :).
Timestamps:
00:07 - 00:41 : Stonehenge (Wiltshire)
00:42 - 02:26 : Roman Bath Complex (Somerset)
02:27 - 03:36 : Bath Abbey (Somerset)
03:37 - 04:18 : Chedworth Roman Villa (Gloucestershire)
04:19 - 05:00 : Attractions of Castle Combe (Wiltshire) including St. Andrew's Church with churchyard and the Market Cross of Castle Combe
05:01 - 06:10 : Oxford Castle (Oxfordshire) including the Tower, Prisons and the Crypt of the Castle
06:11 - 08:44 : Berkeley Castle (Gloucestershire)
08:45 - 09:54 : St. Mary's Church with churchyard (Berkeley, Gloucestershire)
09:55 - 12:48 : Attractions of Reading (Berkshire) including Maiwand Lion at Forbury Gardens, Abbey Gateway, Crown Court, Town Hall, Caversham Bridge, Saint Laurence Church with churchyard, St. Peter's Church with churchyard and Reading Abbey (12:01 - 12:48)
12:49 - 12:55 : St. Andrew's Church (Lulworth, Dorset)
12:56 - 13:03 : St. Edward's Church (Corfe Castle, Dorset)
13:04 - 14:41 : Corfe Castle (Dorset)
14:42 - 15:35 : Attractions of London from Thames river cruise including Blackfriars Bridge, St. Paul's Cathedral, The Tower of London and The Tower Bridge
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St Mary Redcliffe Church Thornbury South Gloucestershire
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Sudeley Castle 13th September 2012
Sudeley Castle is a castle located near Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England. The present structure was built in the 15th century and may have been on the site of a 12th-century castle. The castle has a notable garden, which is designed and maintained to a very high standard. The chapel, St. Mary's Sudeley, is the burial place of Queen Catherine Parr (c. 1512--1548), the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, and contains her marble tomb. (Wikipedia)
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Bell Ringers´ Room, Church St. Mary The Great, Cambridge, UK on Sunday 09th August, 2015
Four Leads of Bristol Suprise Maximus is the title of the sequence.
In total they rang 194 changes, i.e. every ringer pulled his rope 194 times.
If you listen carefully near the beginning you can hear the conductor say Go Bristol [at 01:12]- that is when ringing the changes begin. Before that they were ringing Rounds (bells 1 to 12 in order).
Bristol is the name of the method which is the mathematical pattern of how ringings commenced, whereas Maximus means 12, i.e. all 12 bells were ringing.
(Many thanks to chief ringer Frank King [from 00:38 in left corner] for the explanation, which hopefully helps viewers to understand the beauty of how it works.)
St Marys Painswick
Painswick is in the heart of the Cotswolds and has a population of about 2000 people. It is often referred to as the The Quenn of the Cotswolds. Painswick is surrounded by the village parishes of Cranham, Sheepscombe, Edge, Pitchcombe and Harescombe with Brookthorpe. Together with Painswick they form the Beacon Benefice.
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Our day out to thornbury church Part 2
We went out to take some photos at st marys church in thornbury
HISTORICAL PLACES OF ENGLAND IN GOOGLE EARTH PART SIX ( 6/9 )
1. CASTLE HEDINGHAM,ESSEX 51°59'32.92N 0°36'5.02E
2. ST.MARY BISHOPHIL JUNIOR,YORK 53°57'20.98N 1° 5'13.85W
3. HEVER CASTLE,KENT 51°11'13.06N 0° 6'50.17E
4. SKIPTON HOLY TRINITY CHURCH 53°57'48.00N 2° 0'58.34W
5. CASTLE HOWARD,NORTH YORKSHIRE 54° 7'17.75N 0°54'22.00W
6. ST.BRIDE CHURCH,LONDON 51°30'49.35N 0° 6'19.98W
7. CASTLE BAMBURGH,NORTHUMBERLAND 55°36'34.30N 1°42'38.90W
8. MASJID UMAR,LEICESTER 52°37'27.08N 1° 6'6.61W
9. CASTLE HERSTMONCEAUX,SUSSEX 50°52'10.24N 0°20'19.35E
10. DURHAM CATHEDRAL,DURHAM 54°46'24.55N 1°34'35.34W
11. BURGH CASTLE ROMAN FORT 52°34'57.06N 1°39'6.09E
12. WESTMINISTER CATHEDRAL,LONDON 51°29'45.04N 0° 8'22.74W
13. METROPOLITAN CATHEDRAL,LIVERPOOL 53°24'16.61N 2°58'7.23W
14. HAM HOUSE & GARDEN,HAM 51°26'40.23N 0°18'51.04W
15. EXPLORE YORK LIBRARY,YORK 53°57'40.99N 1° 5'11.12W
16. LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL,LIVERPOOL 53°23'50.23N 2°58'23.80W
17. ST.JOHN'S COLLEGE,CAMBRIDGE 52°12'31.31N 0° 6'54.40E
18. CATHOLIC CHURCH BERRY,LIVERPOOL 53°24'5.90N 2°58'30.90W
19. ARBEIA ROMAN GATEHOUSE 55° 0'16.34N 1°25'55.16W
20. HARDWICK HALL,DERBYSHIRE 53°10'7.64N 1°18'31.48W
21. ST.MARY'S CHURCH,CAMBRIDGE 52°12'19.33N 0° 7'5.65E
22. VICTORIA TOWER, HUDDERSFIELD 53°37'20.50N 1°46'18.08W
23. ST.MARY'S CHURCH,BERKELEY 51°41'20.69N 2°27'27.17W
24. SKELDERGATE BRIDGE,YORK 53°57'14.76N 1° 4'52.87W
25. CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL 51°16'46.92N 1° 4'58.05E
26. MANOR COURT GATE HOUSE,DEVON 50°39'5.46N 3°48'12.41W
27. FENCHURCH VIADUCT,LONDON 51°30'59.78N 0° 2'0.29W
28. ST.PETERS CHURCH,CASTLE CARROCK 54°53'28.83N 2°42'47.46W
29. BLUE TOWER,SAMPHIRE HOE 51° 6'17.39N 1°16'35.65E
30. ALL SAINTS,PAVEMENT 53°57'29.07N 1° 4'50.69W
31. PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL 50°46'56.75N 1° 5'44.61W
HISTORICAL PLACES OF ENGLAND IN GOOGLE EARTH PART EIGHT ( 8/9 )
1. WARWICK CASTLE 52°16'46.07N 1°35'6.72W
2. ST.BENET CHURCH,LONDON 51°30'42.06N 0° 5'56.97W
3. HOO FORT,MEDWAY 51°24'11.87N 0°34'52.89E
4. ST.JAMES CHURCH,BOAARSTALL 51°49'21.41N 1° 5'41.39W
5. NO MAN'S LAND FORT,ISLE 50°44'22.68N 1° 5'42.42W
6. BRISTON CATHEDRAL,BRISTOL 51°27'5.64N 2°36'2.39W
7. CASTLE LULWORTH,DORSET 50°38'20.77N 2°12'31.56W
8. LINCOLN CATHEDRAL 53°14'3.51N 0°32'10.28W
9. COLCHESTER CASTLE 51°53'25.85N 0°54'11.21E
10. LONDON CENTRAL MOSQUE 51°31'44.28N 0° 9'54.29W
11. ST.BRIAVELS CASTLE,GLOUCESTERSHIRE 51°44'17.03N 2°38'26.30W
12. ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL,KENT 51°23'20.20N 0°30'11.94E
13. PORTSMOUTH CATHEDRAL 50°47'25.57N 1° 6'15.67W
14. KENSINGTON PALACE,LONDON 51°30'18.51N 0°11'17.11W
15. CHATSWORTH HOUSE,DERBYSHIRE 53°13'41.11N 1°36'38.60W
16. ST.MICHAEL CHURCH,CASTLE FROME 52° 6'36.49N 2°29'12.67W
17. MANCHESTER TOWN HALL 53°28'44.70N 2°14'38.92W
18. YORK MINISTER,YORK 53°57'44.08N 1° 4'55.31W
19. GUILDHALL,PORTSMOUTH 50°47'51.61N 1° 5'33.66W
20. ST.JOHN THE BAPTIST,STOKESAY 52°25'50.64N 2°49'52.01W
21. IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM,LONDON 51°29'44.99N 0° 6'30.88W
22. MORETON CORBET CHURCH,SHROPSHIRE 52°48'17.82N 2°39'8.68W
23. WELLINGTON ARCH,LONDON 51°30'9.25N 0° 9'3.11W
24. CHESTER CATHEDRAL 53°11'30.55N 2°53'25.80W
25. CONISBROUGH VIADUCT,DONCASTER 53°29'18.60N 1°12'41.68W
26. ST.DUNSTAN'S CHRUCH 51°17'1.13N 1° 4'14.75E
27. ST.MARY'S CHURCH TOWER,BERKELEY 51°41'22.68N 2°27'27.71W
28. ST.MARY&ST.CUTHBERT PARISH CHURCH 54°51'21.12N 1°34'18.11W
29. ZORBING SOUTH,DORCHESTER 50°43'25.57N 2°22'56.46W
30. WALPOLE GATE,ELY 52°23'47.91N 0°15'43.37E
31. CHATTRI MEMORIAL,SUSSEX 50°53'3.07N 0° 8'49.15W
Aerial tour of Tetbury, Gloucestershire
A quick look around Tetbury, from above, May 2017.
Including St Mary the Virgin and St Mary Magdalen Church, The Market House and Antiques Alley!
Music: B3 by Boxcat Games
St Peter's Church - iconic ruin in Castle Park (Bristol) UK
St Peter's Church:
St Peter's is a ruined church in Castle Park, Bristol, England. It was bombed during World War II and is now preserved as a memorial.
The foundation of the church can be traced back to 1106 when it was endowed on Tewkesbury Abbey,[1] with a 12th-century lower tower, the rest of the church being built in the 15th century. Excavations in 1975 suggest that this was the site of Bristol's first church; the 12th-century city wall runs under the west end of the present church. It was bombed during the Bristol Blitz of 24-25 November 1940[2] and ruined. It is maintained as a monument to the civilian war dead of Bristol.
It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II* listed building.[3]
The church ran St Peter's Hospital, a workhouse on St Peter's Street which was destroyed by bombing during the Bristol Blitz.[4]
Archives
Parish records for St Peter's church, Bristol are held at Bristol Archives (Ref. P. St PE) (online catalogue) including a baptism register, marriage registers and a burial register. The archive also includes records of the incumbent, churchwardens, charities, societies and vestry plus plans and photographs. Some of these records were severely damaged when the church was bombed but duplicate entries of the parish registers can be found in the bishop's transcripts of these records.
Bristol:
Bristol (/ˈbrɪstəl/ (About this sound listen)) is a city and county[4] in South West England with a population of 454,200[5] in 2017. The district has the 10th-largest population in England, while the Bristol metropolitan area is the 12th-largest in the United Kingdom.[6] According to data from 2015, the city itself is the 8th-largest by population in the UK.[7] The city borders North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, with the cities of Bath and Gloucester to the south-east and north-east, respectively.
Iron Age hill forts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon, and around the beginning of the 11th century the settlement was known as Brycgstow (Old English the place at the bridge). Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373, when it became a county of itself. From the 13th to the 18th century, Bristol was among the top three English cities after London in tax receipts. Bristol was surpassed by the rapid rise of Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool in the Industrial Revolution.
Bristol was a starting place for early voyages of exploration to the New World. On a ship out of Bristol in 1497 John Cabot, a Venetian, became the first European since the Vikings to land on mainland North America. In 1499 William Weston, a Bristol merchant, was the first Englishman to lead an exploration to North America. At the height of the Bristol slave trade, from 1700 to 1807, more than 2,000 slave ships carried an estimated 500,000 people from Africa to slavery in the Americas. The Port of Bristol has since moved from Bristol Harbour in the city centre to the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Dock.
United States:
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America (/əˈmɛrɪkə/), is a federal republic[16][17] composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.[fn 6] Forty-eight states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east and across the Bering Strait from Russia to the west. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U.S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, stretching across nine official time zones. The extremely diverse geography, climate and wildlife of the United States make it one of the world's 17 megadiverse countries.[19]
At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million km2)[20] and with over 324 million people, the United States is the world's third- or fourth-largest country by total area,[fn 7] and the third-most populous. The capital is Washington, D.C., and the largest city is New York City; twelve other major metropolitan areas—each with at least 4.5 million inhabitants—are Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Miami, Atlanta, Boston, San Francisco, Phoenix, and Riverside.
BERKELEY GLOUCESTERSHIRE TO GL154HS PART 1
A short ride on my trusty steed to the beautiful forest of dean to one of the viewpoints at GL154HS,please excuse any bad singing or bad language due to other road users who don't 'use' or 'cancel' indicators,or overtake me without thinking about the length of the dual carriageway and the fact I'm 'not' riding a moped! part 1
St Mary's Church, Watford Ringing
Berkeley Castle In The Cotswold Town Of Berkeley.
Berkeley Castle historically sometimes spelt Berkley Castle or Barkley Castle is a castle in the town of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, UK. The castle's origins date back to the 11th century and it has been designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building.
The castle has remained within the Berkeley family since they reconstructed it in the 12th century, except for a period of royal ownership by the Tudors. It is traditionally believed to be the scene of the murder of King Edward II in 1327.
The first castle at Berkeley was a motte-and-bailey, built around 1067 by William FitzOsbern shortly after the Conquest. This was subsequently held by three generations of the first Berkeley family, all called Roger de Berkeley, and rebuilt by them in the first half of the 12th century. The last Roger de Berkeley was dispossessed in 1152 for withholding his allegiance from the House of Plantagenet during the conflict of The Anarchy, and the feudal barony of Berkeley was then granted to Robert Fitzharding, a wealthy burgess of Bristol and supporter of the Plantagenets. He was the founder of the Berkeley family which still holds the castle.
In 1153–54, Fitzharding received a royal charter from King Henry II giving him permission to rebuild the castle. Fitzharding built the circular shell keep during 1153–56, probably on the site of the former motte. The building of the curtain wall followed, probably during 1160–90 by Robert and then by his son Maurice.
Much of the rest of the castle is 14th century and was built for Thomas de Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley: Thorpe's Tower, to the north of the keep, the inner gatehouse to its southwest, and other buildings of the inner bailey.
The castle was ransacked in 1326 by the forces of Hugh Despenser, the favourite of Edward II. Then in 1327, Edward was deposed by his wife Queen Isabella and her ally Roger Mortimer, and placed in the joint custody of Mortimer’s son-in-law, Thomas de Berkeley, and de Berkeley‘s brother-in-law, John Maltravers. They brought Edward to Berkeley Castle, and held him there for five months from April to September. During that time a band of Edward's supporters attacked, entered the castle and rescued him, only for him to be recaptured soon afterwards. It is possible that his captors then moved him around between several castles to make further rescue more difficult, before returning him to Berkeley Castle in September. Some commentators have claimed that Edward's escape was actually successful, and that someone else was later murdered in his place.
The castle was used for many scenes for the first televised version of The Other Boleyn Girl. More recently the castle and grounds have been used for Galavant, Poldark, TheWhite Princess and The Spanish Princess.
The castle is featured on an episode in the 2017 season of the genealogy documentary television series Who Do You Think You Are?, with American actress Courteney Cox looking into her ancestry. Cox learns that she is a 21-generation direct descendant of Thomas de Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley and 22-generation descendant of de Berkeley’s father-in-law, Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March – also learning of their parts in the murder of King Edward II of England at Berkeley Castle in 1327.
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Cinematic (Sting) by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (
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Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 - Classical Whimsical by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (
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13th Century Church Berkley Gloucestershire
13th Century Church Berkley Gloucestershire with some frescos
Sudeley Castle in the Cotswolds
Sudeley Castle is a beautiful but tragic place. The castle was briefly the home of Queen Kathrine Parr, the widow of Henry VIII. She married Sir Thomas Seymour after the death of the King and moved to Sudeley. She gave birth to a daughter, Mary, on August 30, 1548 but died five days later. The legend is that Kathrine's spirit haunts the castle. In 1549, Seymour was arrested and executed for treason. Sudeley Castle is privately owned but opened to the public on a limited basis. It is a popular venue for weddings in St. Mary's Chapel.
Carew Castle, Wales
Carew castle is full of atmosphere. The beautiful Helen of Wales, Princess Nest, lived here at one time. Come experience the spookiness of Carew castle, and then drive less than a mile to see the church, St. Mary's. For more information on Traveling in the United Kingdom (or traveling to Europe in general) check out my book How I Travel to Europe Every Year on a Teacher's Salary - Also available is the Travels in the UK series:
Bristol - The Lord Mayors Chapel or St Mark's Church
St Mark's Church [1] is an ancient church on the north-east side of College Green, Bristol, England, built c. 1230. Better known to mediaeval and Tudor historians as the Gaunt's Chapel, it has also been known within Bristol since 1722 as the Lord Mayor's Chapel. It is one of only two churches in England privately owned and used for worship by a city corporation.[2] The other is St Lawrence Jewry, London. [3] It stands opposite Bristol Cathedral, before 1542 St Augustine's Abbey, founded by a member of the Berkeley family. It was built as the chapel to the adjacent Gaunt's Hospital, now demolished, founded in 1220. Except for the west front, the church has been enclosed by later adjacent buildings, although the tower is still visible. The church contains some fine late gothic features and a collection of continental stained glass. It is designated by Historic England as a grade I listed building.
Bells of St Mary's
My wife Penny hasn't seen this movie since she was a small child.
MERRY CHRISTMAS PENNY