It is amazing what beautiful monuments you find in plain looking buildings. It's like opening a treasure chest each time. Thank you for showing these beautiful monuments and for the story of them.
What a jewel box that little, unassuming church is! Thank you so much for opening its doors, and shedding light upon it for us all 💖I just loved the tomb of Francis and her first husband! Such unusual poses - and they are in fantastic condition for their age. Such art!
What glorious tomb art! Frankly I was surprised that something so “high church” back during the Puritan rule of Cromwell in the Commonwealth survived. Thanks for yet another fascinating church visit.
Great as always. I wonder if you might do something on the wonderful artists who created such beautiful monuments? Are they known to us -- their names, workshops etc?
Allan, wonderful video once again. Frances Wray, wife of Sir George St. Paul, 1st Bt., was the granddaughter of Nicholas Girlington whose sister, Isabel Girlington, wife of Christopher Kelke first (and 2nd of Sir William Tyrwhitt of Scotter), was my 12x great grandmother via Virginia immigrant William Farrar (her great grandson). He was an ancestor of my father. Faith St. Paul, Sir George’s sister, married Sir Edward Tyrwhit of Stainfield, 2nd Bt. and their great grandson, George Heneage of Hainton married Mary Kempe who was a distant cousin of my 11x great grandmother Lady Amy (Kempe) Skipwith, mother of my mother’s immigrant Virginia ancestor Mrs. Diana (Skipwith) Dale. Two of Diana’s Kempe cousins were colonial governors of Virginia, Sir Edward Digges and Sir Henry Chicheley. Your videos have amazingly touched base with my mother’s and father’s families in England. Thank you so much for posting. We have corresponded before about the Heneages, Skipwiths, and Hildyards before.
This family of Kempe, produced 2 governors of Virginia in colonial America?. I find it interesting that a Brian P. Kemp, has occupied the Governors Office in the State of Georgia.since 2019. Researching my family lines, i discovered that if the ancestor from England was from an aristocratic, titled or arms bearing family, even though the Title & Coat of Arms did not” transplant” after the Revolutionary War,, their desendants , accustomed to wealth and rule, continued on as American “aristocracy” namely, Legislators, Judges and Lawyers. However, second sons had to make their own way, seeking to claim land in the western frontier, some without success and have descendants who are poor, lacking education, and literacy. even today . Regards from 🇺🇸, Land of Opportunity. 😎
@@prarieborn6458 thank you for your response. I have checked and Brian Kempe does not seem to belong to our family. The male-line Kempes died out in England because my 11x great grandmother, Amy Kempe Skipwith, was one of four sisters who were co-heirs of their father Sir Thomas Kempe, d. 1607, no male heir. The estates were either passed to the daughters and sold off. As far as our family line, the Skipwiths continue to the present day as do the Digges family from sister Lady Mary (Kempe) Digges. Most of the lineage is now in America.
I find it all sad that the lives of people disappear, their homes gone, their burial places destroyed. This lovely little church is a breath of fresh air. I'm amazed that everything is still there and how the colors are so bright.
Thank you Allen. I love your videos. I'm always amazed at the histories of folks from these periods that seemed to believe they should be celebrated for all time after they died. All this finery for the dead. There's no permanence in this earthly life, it's going to Jesus that's forever. Thank you. David
Mr. Barton, your profile picture looks as if you had walked out of the Elizabethan age. I wonder if the desire to learn history passionately as you present, is born out of a search for ourselves? It is as if we died young long ago. Is it that spark God like a fint struck within us which pushes us back, never having been allowed to know its completion? Thereby, endlessly search beyond these dark, and forgotton treasures of a life long past, fueling that spark onto inferno, in an attempt to behold fully, what might have been? Excellent video today. Many thanks and Happiest of Holidays to come to you and those you love.
These tiny country churches are absolute gems, and the detail in the monuments is remarkable. I think the portrayals in the wall plaque speak volumes. I must admit, though, that I get a bit of an aching neck and arm when I see those side-reclining effigies. Recumbent looks much more comfortable. 😊
The filming was smashing, I liked how the light kept changing it gave ambiance to your words. I love how the monuments have kept their lovely colours.Perhaps a bit glaring for our more modern tastes but it was really good to see it all in its glory. How sad that Francis lost her little girl, so short a time, as you say it is a reminder. The house having vanished is also so sad to think of, all the work that was probably put into it. Thank you so much I do enjoy your commentary and appreciate how much work it must take. (P.s. You look like a very noble Tudor yourself.)
This is what so great about England the rich history imbeeded deep in it's history and we have to be very grateful to you Dr Barton for bringing this history to light thank you
If you go to lower Machen in South Wales there's a small unassuming church but within it are a few huge monuments to the Lords morgan of Tredegar. Think you might be interested
Thank you Alan. This Church is not too far from where l live. I always take visitors there and now with the extra info you have given me, l am better equipped. The fine detail of their clothing on the monuments always fascinates me.
The most beautiful monuments, thank you so much for letting us see them. It’s such a shame we do not do things like this any more. Or maybe it’s all for the better.😢
Thank you very much! I'm grateful for the opportunity to shine a light on these otherwise obscure parts of our heritage 😊. It's wonderful that it's so appreciated.
This is very enlightening. I visited St Lawrence Snarford years ago because it is locally famous for its funerary monuments but I didn't know the details of family history. One of the loveliest Tony medieval churches is St Edith's in Coates. I don't know whether you have covered it. Lincolnshire has many rare and beautiful parish churches and is very rich in ecclesiastical history although many country houses and manors have been demolished, burnt down or lost.
Thank you for sharing this. It appears she was fortunate her second husband passed so soon after marriage and she protected assets he would have otherwise squandered. It's sad the estate is gone. A prominent family would not build of wood, I would assume. Not having children to care for may have changed its fate. Now I'm curious if fire or deterioration caused its demise. I do enjoy searching land documents to find the stories. Thank you for sharing and your efforts to do so.
“To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift of life. It is our only life. The universe will go on, indifferent to our brief existence…….” Terry Goodkind.
Madame de Saint Paul in effigy has a look of surprise on her feminine features similar to the ones we might see in early-ish XXth c. American cartoons à la Betty Boo, for example. I find this quite precious 💙
Hi Allan! I am assuming this church is more a museum of sorts than an active house of worship. What provision for conservation, if any, is made for the irreplaceable monuments within? I assume administration for buildings like this fall under the auspices of the Church of England?
There is no village here Terry and the church is long redundant. It is now in the care of a body called the Churches Conservation Trust who are responsible for upkeep and conservation for the benefit of all.
Hi Allen I’ve been enjoying your videos and especially love the ones on the exhumations of king Henry V1 and king Edward 1V all the churches too. I wanted to ask on the monuments of the saint poles in this video as in other monuments on top of tombs were the monuments made in the likenesses or portraits of what the buried people looked like? I know in the case of queen Elizabeth 1 the monument is a look a like. Always wanted to know that and are the saint poles buried under their monument?
I was surprised that a Puritan would create such a splendid personal monument. Here in our small rural mediaeval church when I became warden I received PCC blessing to remove all pictures from our (splendidly white) walls; sadly I was unable to convince the Diocese to allow me to whitewash our much decayed, illegible and ghastly C15 wall painting :)
Hi Allan. I do try to pray for or poor Holy Souls who are in purgatory. I’d like to know how you and your domination prepare for that, thank you, Caroline
I'm an Eastern Orthodox Deacon Caroline, we pray for the souls of the departed. We do it very thoroughly. At every divine liturgy the names of the departed are commemorated, we have long lists of names that I as Deacon have to read out. We also have frequent memorial services for the anniversaries of death. There is rarely a Sunday without one.
Can you say why they're effigies showed them on their side? was that the style of the time? Are the people buried within the monument or underneath it? The 2 women look to be beautiful from their effigies would they have been from life or something else.
That was really interesting. We’re they Protestants or puritans? Seems a very grand tomb for puritans doesn’t it. Looks like I’m nit alone in thinking that. 👵👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺🙏🙏
Those casually relaxing figures make such an odd representation, that I confess I could never feel at ease attending services in the presence of such, beautiful though they are. I prefer the older monument of the parents, though I was a bit startled to see they are depicted with their eyes open, which, though I may be mistaken, is unusual. I always imagine those represented with monuments to be at their final rest, their souls peacefully and prayerfully, awaiting the judgement, but ASLEEP. Which gives one to wonder whether it was their own preference to be depicted in such a way, or was it the artistic work of the craftsman who executed the commission? I guess we'll never know.
I mean no disrespect but your pronunciation of Snarford is really strange and if you had asked me directions I wouldn't have known where to send you. I believe this church may be paired with Friesthorpe, famous only for Reverend Beechey's sons killed in the first world war. I was told they had to help pay for it's upkeep. Strange to say I have worked on the roof but never ventured inside, it was lovely to see these tombs, Mother often spoke of them. Thankyou for a very nice video. Imagine the view before the fields were turned into praries, small fields, cattle grazing and perhaps at the right time of year men with scythes cutting hay this would be as these nobles saw it.
👩💻Just a question. When you say Poole, is it the same family as the Earl of Lincoln, a Yorkist, who sat in council with King Henry VII, a Lancaster. Later, betraying the King with Lambert Simnel, crowned in Dublin, claiming to be Elizabeth's missing brother? 🙋♀️😘😳🤗🥰🇺🇲🇬🇧
So poignant.... Personally I find these type of tombs, although fascinating, somewhat vulgar and vainglorious and wonder how people supposedly living pious lives reconciled this kind of ostentatious showiness to their core beliefs ; Of course I am glad for the sake of history for these testaments of past lives, and some of my ancestors have quite showy memorials too but for myself I feel it's probably more natural and fitting to return to dust and be forgotten along with so many other worthier beings than myself who havent left a whole soap opera of their lives on show for the idle interest of future generations
Well, piety doesn't mean they took the veil. Moreover excessive piety or austerity can be just as ostentatious as a bit of vainglory.. At least they left a legacy of beautiful art, which is just as much a testament to the artist as the patron who commissioned it.
@@timhazeltine3256 yes ok. the art etc etc... but to have your tomb sited where the altar once sat seems so massively prideful.. its puzzling to me when so many other things were being banned and dismissed as frivolous why this explosion of ornate tombs? Previously we have seen the earlier ledger stones with their simple brasses, the modesty of which seem much more in keeping with the Puritan aesthetic
It is amazing what beautiful monuments you find in plain looking buildings. It's like opening a treasure chest each time. Thank you for showing these beautiful monuments and for the story of them.
That was a lovely and poignant essay on this glimpse into past lives, the mom and her beloved little girl.
What a jewel box that little, unassuming church is! Thank you so much for opening its doors, and shedding light upon it for us all 💖I just loved the tomb of Francis and her first husband! Such unusual poses - and they are in fantastic condition for their age. Such art!
allan i cant get over how many women are following this channel....im impressed by my sisters....
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Absolutely stunning.
Thank you for another wonderful presentation.
I occasionally carve Alabaster, I can tell you it is an exciting and rewarding stone to work with.
What beautiful memorials very rare to see painted ones
VERY INTERESTING video, Allan!! Those effigies were SOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL!! 💖👍💚
So beautiful. Thank you for sharing with us!
Outstanding. Thank you so much for posting.
Loved seeing this. It looked as tho both wives had Tudor roses on their dresses. Interesting.
Thank you for another fascinating video 😊
What glorious tomb art! Frankly I was surprised that something so “high church” back during the Puritan rule of Cromwell in the Commonwealth survived. Thanks for yet another fascinating church visit.
So sad but fascinating. The monuments are stunning. I'm surprised colors remain and so rich. Thank you!
wow these things i would never have known if not for this channel. thanks
That was brilliant, and very moving. Thank you.
Great as always. I wonder if you might do something on the wonderful artists who created such beautiful monuments? Are they known to us -- their names, workshops etc?
What a gem! Just amazing how these treasures are around every corner!❤
Another great episode. You made me feel chilly! Haha
Bravo Allan.
Allan, wonderful video once again. Frances Wray, wife of Sir George St. Paul, 1st Bt., was the granddaughter of Nicholas Girlington whose sister, Isabel Girlington, wife of Christopher Kelke first (and 2nd of Sir William Tyrwhitt of Scotter), was my 12x great grandmother via Virginia immigrant William Farrar (her great grandson). He was an ancestor of my father. Faith St. Paul, Sir George’s sister, married Sir Edward Tyrwhit of Stainfield, 2nd Bt. and their great grandson, George Heneage of Hainton married Mary Kempe who was a distant cousin of my 11x great grandmother Lady Amy (Kempe) Skipwith, mother of my mother’s immigrant Virginia ancestor Mrs. Diana (Skipwith) Dale. Two of Diana’s Kempe cousins were colonial governors of Virginia, Sir Edward Digges and Sir Henry Chicheley. Your videos have amazingly touched base with my mother’s and father’s families in England. Thank you so much for posting. We have corresponded before about the Heneages, Skipwiths, and Hildyards before.
This family of Kempe, produced 2 governors of Virginia in colonial America?. I find it interesting that a Brian P. Kemp, has occupied the Governors Office in the State of Georgia.since 2019. Researching my family lines, i discovered that if the ancestor from England was from an aristocratic, titled or arms bearing family, even though the Title & Coat of Arms did not” transplant” after the Revolutionary War,, their desendants , accustomed to wealth and rule, continued on as American “aristocracy” namely, Legislators, Judges and Lawyers. However, second sons had to make their own way, seeking to claim land in the western frontier, some without success and have descendants who are poor, lacking education, and literacy. even today . Regards from 🇺🇸, Land of Opportunity. 😎
@@prarieborn6458 thank you for your response. I have checked and Brian Kempe does not seem to belong to our family. The male-line Kempes died out in England because my 11x great grandmother, Amy Kempe Skipwith, was one of four sisters who were co-heirs of their father Sir Thomas Kempe, d. 1607, no male heir. The estates were either passed to the daughters and sold off. As far as our family line, the Skipwiths continue to the present day as do the Digges family from sister Lady Mary (Kempe) Digges. Most of the lineage is now in America.
I find it all sad that the lives of people disappear, their homes gone, their burial places destroyed. This lovely little church is a breath of fresh air. I'm amazed that everything is still there and how the colors are so bright.
That was so interesting! Thank you!
I have always loved having a mooch around old churches and I am delighted when I come across monuments like this
Thank you Allen. I love your videos. I'm always amazed at the histories of folks from these periods that seemed to believe they should be celebrated for all time after they died. All this finery for the dead. There's no permanence in this earthly life, it's going to Jesus that's forever. Thank you.
David
Mr. Barton, your profile picture looks as if you had walked out of the Elizabethan age. I wonder if the desire to learn history passionately as you present, is born out of a search for ourselves? It is as if we died young long ago. Is it that spark God like a fint struck within us which pushes us back, never having been allowed to know its completion? Thereby, endlessly search beyond these dark, and forgotton treasures of a life long past, fueling that spark onto inferno, in an attempt to behold fully, what might have been?
Excellent video today. Many thanks and Happiest of Holidays to come to you and those you love.
Thank you for a wonderful bit of history and a look into this exquisite church with its funerary monuments. Truly a treasure house!
Very moving & eloquent. Sir George is my 3rd cousin 13x removed.
Really beautiful, thank you.
These tiny country churches are absolute gems, and the detail in the monuments is remarkable. I think the portrayals in the wall plaque speak volumes.
I must admit, though, that I get a bit of an aching neck and arm when I see those side-reclining effigies. Recumbent looks much more comfortable. 😊
The filming was smashing, I liked how the light kept changing it gave ambiance to your words. I love how the monuments have kept their lovely colours.Perhaps a bit glaring for our more modern tastes but it was really good to see it all in its glory. How sad that Francis lost her little girl, so short a time, as you say it is a reminder. The house having vanished is also so sad to think of, all the work that was probably put into it. Thank you so much I do enjoy your commentary and appreciate how much work it must take. (P.s. You look like a very noble Tudor yourself.)
Beautiful monuments and effigies. Thanks!
This is what so great about England the rich history imbeeded deep in it's history and we have to be very grateful to you Dr Barton for bringing this history to light thank you
If you go to lower Machen in South Wales there's a small unassuming church but within it are a few huge monuments to the Lords morgan of Tredegar. Think you might be interested
A sad story but, you're right: the monuments are beautiful.
Thank you Alan. This Church is not too far from where l live. I always take visitors there and now with the extra info you have given me, l am better equipped. The fine detail of their clothing on the monuments always fascinates me.
The most beautiful monuments, thank you so much for letting us see them. It’s such a shame we do not do things like this any more. Or maybe it’s all for the better.😢
Just beautiful ❤️ and thankful for you and the history you give us.🙏
Thank you very much! I'm grateful for the opportunity to shine a light on these otherwise obscure parts of our heritage 😊. It's wonderful that it's so appreciated.
This is very enlightening. I visited St Lawrence Snarford years ago because it is locally famous for its funerary monuments but I didn't know the details of family history. One of the loveliest Tony medieval churches is St Edith's in Coates. I don't know whether you have covered it. Lincolnshire has many rare and beautiful parish churches and is very rich in ecclesiastical history although many country houses and manors have been demolished, burnt down or lost.
Never fail to fascinate. Thank you Allan!
My pleasure. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for sharing this. It appears she was fortunate her second husband passed so soon after marriage and she protected assets he would have otherwise squandered.
It's sad the estate is gone. A prominent family would not build of wood, I would assume. Not having children to care for may have changed its fate.
Now I'm curious if fire or deterioration caused its demise. I do enjoy searching land documents to find the stories.
Thank you for sharing and your efforts to do so.
Thank you. 🙂
Beautiful!
Beautiful building
“To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift of life. It is our only life. The universe will go on, indifferent to our brief existence…….”
Terry Goodkind.
These are the first I remember seeing lying on sides. Is this unusual?
Madame de Saint Paul in effigy has a look of surprise on her feminine features similar to the ones we might see in early-ish XXth c. American cartoons à la Betty Boo, for example. I find this quite precious 💙
Hi Allan! I am assuming this church is more a museum of sorts than an active house of worship. What provision for conservation, if any, is made for the irreplaceable monuments within? I assume administration for buildings like this fall under the auspices of the Church of England?
There is no village here Terry and the church is long redundant. It is now in the care of a body called the Churches Conservation Trust who are responsible for upkeep and conservation for the benefit of all.
@@allanbarton Thank you for answering these questions, Allan.
Hi Allen I’ve been enjoying your videos and especially love the ones on the exhumations of king Henry V1 and king Edward 1V all the churches too. I wanted to ask on the monuments of the saint poles in this video as in other monuments on top of tombs were the monuments made in the likenesses or portraits of what the buried people looked like? I know in the case of queen Elizabeth 1 the monument is a look a like. Always wanted to know that and are the saint poles buried under their monument?
I was surprised that a Puritan would create such a splendid personal monument. Here in our small rural mediaeval church when I became warden I received PCC blessing to remove all pictures from our (splendidly white) walls; sadly I was unable to convince the Diocese to allow me to whitewash our much decayed, illegible and ghastly C15 wall painting :)
I was also surprised at such a monument to a Puritan.. but I'd never advocate whitewashing a historic wall painting
Hi Allan. I do try to pray for or poor Holy Souls who are in purgatory. I’d like to know how you and your domination prepare for that, thank you, Caroline
I'm an Eastern Orthodox Deacon Caroline, we pray for the souls of the departed. We do it very thoroughly. At every divine liturgy the names of the departed are commemorated, we have long lists of names that I as Deacon have to read out. We also have frequent memorial services for the anniversaries of death. There is rarely a Sunday without one.
Can you say why they're effigies showed them on their side? was that the style of the time? Are the people buried within the monument or underneath it? The 2 women look to be beautiful from their effigies would they have been from life or something else.
That was really interesting. We’re they Protestants or puritans? Seems a very grand tomb for puritans doesn’t it. Looks like I’m nit alone in thinking that. 👵👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺🙏🙏
Those casually relaxing figures make such an odd representation, that I confess I could never feel at ease attending services in the presence of such, beautiful though they are. I prefer the older monument of the parents, though I was a bit startled to see they are depicted with their eyes open, which, though I may be mistaken, is unusual. I always imagine those represented with monuments to be at their final rest, their souls peacefully and prayerfully, awaiting the judgement, but ASLEEP. Which gives one to wonder whether it was their own preference to be depicted in such a way, or was it the artistic work of the craftsman who executed the commission? I guess we'll never know.
The urge to dust those cobwebs is strong.
How interesting that Frances chose presumably to be buried with Rich.. implies she must have had feelings for him despite his reputation.
I mean no disrespect but your pronunciation of Snarford is really strange and if you had asked me directions I wouldn't have known where to send you. I believe this church may be paired with Friesthorpe, famous only for Reverend Beechey's sons killed in the first world war. I was told they had to help pay for it's upkeep. Strange to say I have worked on the roof but never ventured inside, it was lovely to see these tombs, Mother often spoke of them. Thankyou for a very nice video. Imagine the view before the fields were turned into praries, small fields, cattle grazing and perhaps at the right time of year men with scythes cutting hay this would be as these nobles saw it.
👩💻Just a question. When you say Poole, is it the same family as the Earl of Lincoln, a Yorkist, who sat in council with King Henry VII, a Lancaster. Later, betraying the King with Lambert Simnel, crowned in Dublin, claiming to be Elizabeth's missing brother? 🙋♀️😘😳🤗🥰🇺🇲🇬🇧
So poignant.... Personally I find these type of tombs, although fascinating, somewhat vulgar and vainglorious and wonder how people supposedly living pious lives reconciled this kind of ostentatious showiness to their core beliefs ; Of course I am glad for the sake of history for these testaments of past lives, and some of my ancestors have quite showy memorials too but for myself I feel it's probably more natural and fitting to return to dust and be forgotten along with so many other worthier beings than myself who havent left a whole soap opera of their lives on show for the idle interest of future generations
Well, piety doesn't mean they took the veil. Moreover excessive piety or austerity can be just as ostentatious as a bit of vainglory.. At least they left a legacy of beautiful art, which is just as much a testament to the artist as the patron who commissioned it.
@@timhazeltine3256 yes ok. the art etc etc... but to have your tomb sited where the altar once sat seems so massively prideful.. its puzzling to me when so many other things were being banned and dismissed as frivolous why this explosion of ornate tombs? Previously we have seen the earlier ledger stones with their simple brasses, the modesty of which seem much more in keeping with the Puritan aesthetic