Whitby - Exploring a Medieval Yorkshire Church | May 2024
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- In this short video I explore St Mary's church on the East cliff overlooking the North Yorkshire harbour town of Whitby. A church which has a largely Georgian furnished interior and which was once described by one of its Victorian rectors as 'now perhaps the most depraved sacred building in the kingdom'. Today the church attracts many thousands of tourists and sightseers - many of whom evidently come in search (or thinking they might be able to find) Dracula's grave. Which, obviously for anyone who has read the book doesn't exist and certainly not in Whitby.
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Absolutely wonderful episode and beautifully narrated. Thank you Rob for making my afternoon.
Very kind and glad you enjoyed it! 😊
Thank you Rob, another fantastic episode and what an amazing interior 😊
Thanks for another great video. I can't believe I once ran up those abbey steps! The church is still the site of the Folk Week Service on the last Sunday in August. Whitby was always a place of great Christian significance, the home of St Hilda and Caedmon and stamping ground of Blessed Nicholas Postgate, whose cause for canonisation is currently being promoted. James Cook would probably have visited St Mary's and would certainly have seen it as he passed in and out of the harbour.
Such an atmospheric place, even without the Dracula story. Those ear trumpets freaked me out as a child. In fact the whole church did, looking so strange to me, then only familiar with churches George Gilbert Scott had got his hands on. Thanks for letting me see it again.
Yes, perhaps I should have expressed this a little clearer but I had to cut the length of the script way down because I hadn't enough footage! It is exceptional in its own right, literally fame aside, absolutely agree.
It was my birthday when I shot this film so I was also a bit rushed to get to the brewery, have a pint and head down some sketching of the Abbey!
@@churchcrawling It came across fine. Glad you got the beer in 😄.
@@churchcrawlingThe narration was absolutely fine - splendid, in fact - as was, no doubt, the pint. 🍻 What a great way to spend your birthday 🎂
"Ahhhh, de children of de niiiiight! How sweeeetly they sing........." :)
Thanks for another great video. Whitby is on my bucket list of places to visit so this was very much of interest!
Excellent, thanks!
I've been to Whitby many times but never went into the church. I think I always assumed it was closed to the public to avoid being overwhelmed by huge numbers of tourists.
Quite the opposite - it is always open. Even when I went last week, it was open despite works to the chancel (though that section was closed). Well worth a revisit
the place to visit in Whitby is the Magpie Cafe
Next time I'll remember to stop by there
I think you managed to catch its atmosphere, which is well nigh impossible on film.
Thank you!
What a fascinating, almost methodist looking interior (?) church. Poor Dracula, not having a grave to ‘Count’. I misread one of the exterior signs as ‘If they hear not ‘moles’ - Thought I, “I knew they were blind but how sad they were also afflicted with not being heard” (much like women? 🤭 joke….!!!) - luckily, I was also afflicted with not being heard until you read this! 😂. Apologies to women for not ‘keep(ing) thy tongue’ - oops 🫣
It has that look about it, certainly. Reflective of a very particular liturgy, but I think largely the approach to furnishings was left to run quite out of hand. I'm sure several social factors contributed to its overall development into the complex beast it still survives as today. Fascinating, really.
I have also seen a house near a churchyard in another part of Yorkshire with a sign about moles! I'll have to see if I can dig out the sign!
@@churchcrawling I think it’s actually meant to be Moses! 🫣😜