Exploring the ruins of St Anthonys Chapel on Arthurs seat | Edinburgh
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2019
- In this weeks edinburgh/scottish vlog video we start a little series of exploring Arthurs Seat in Edinburgh, Scotland. We also start looking at the ruins of old buildings and their history. This time we look round the ruins of St Anthony's Chapel beside St Margarets Loch.
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The easiest way to know where the entrance was or would have been is that ( If Christian) you enter in the West end, the altar is in the east end. Christian churches in those times followed the same building plan / orientation to the sun. 😁 I really enjoy these vlogs. Thanks so much for making them!
Thats very cool to know. Next time I am up there I will have to keep that in mind.
The video was brilliant! Glad to see you didn't die. We are really looking forward to our trip to Edinburgh this summer. You're getting us all excited!
Im glad we can help..... and glad i didn't die.
Used to walk up there the whole time and knew nothing about it. Such a nice walk
Jaymee...... How did you manage that?
@@ClanBroonford it's alright Ill go up again when I visit in April now fully informed 😂
Would be great if you done the Train stations , thanks for all interesting tours , it made lockdown a wee bit easier cheers
Braw 'journey' and video, Lad. You certainly picked a dreich and blustery day to go walk about on that hill. With it being so slick, you did a smashing job of not busting your bum and possibly damaging your camera, although glad you made it without falling. Keep up the good work. Slàinte
Thank you, sloping and actually falling is very different...... thankfully.
Lovely video! Watch yourself! One of the first things I had on my list for our visit was to climb up Arthur’s Seat and we never made it and I still never knew that the chapel was there, good grief. How wonderfully old and even still beautiful, the archway of the door. Too bad you weren’t closer to the Sheep’s Heid, a pint might have been in order!
A pint is always nice.
Thank you so much for your videos! I always thought I would visit Scotland in person, but alas that is not to be so the videos really mean a lot to me. Thank you again.
Thank you so much for watching them. Hope you enjoy them.
Started watching (and enjoying) your videos in November, getting ready for a trip to Edinburgh with my sister, planned for 2019. Then in december I was diagnosied with cancer so I now watch (and enjoy) your videos while going thru my chemo sessions, getting ready to kick this cancer in the butt. We are now hoping and planning to get to Edinburgh in 2020. I plan to beat this before then. Just wanted to thank you for helping me enjoy this time while I’m fighting and healing. Keep having such joy showing us all your amazing city. Can’t wait to see it in person!!!
Hi, I am so glad you are enjoying the videos and that they are putting a smile on your face. We wish you all the best with your fight., hopefully the videos will help you plan a great celebration visit when you beat it. If you have any suggestions for videos of things you would like to see to help you plan, don't be shy to comment and let me us know.
Don't forget to put dunsapie hill on your list. There was one of arthurs seats three iron age hill forts on top. Not sure if you can see any of it though. Also, you can see the prehistoric cultivation terraces on the east side of arthurs seat facing dunsapie hill & loch
Did not know that, but the cultivation terrace rings a bell. Is that the part that looks like steps from a distance?
Yes it is
I guess the other two iron age hill forts are Arthurs seat itself and the little peak that the terraces are on, I don't remember the name but I wanna say its crow hill or something like that
Please, be carefull! I want to see more about Edinburgh...kkk....thank you, Tony! 🤩
Im fine, I promise.
Me too he is great Tony
Yay! A new journey! Thank you!
Many journeys to come.... hopefully.
Thank you. Enjoy your information looking forward to visiting Edinburgh.
Used to play up there as a wee girl. Have lived in Canada for many years now, but thank you so much for bringing back many happy memories.
Has it changed much?
Hasn't changed. Still slippery slopes. My chum Caroline's legs ran away with her on the way down and she ended up in the loch and got her brand new pink knickers covered in mud. Cried all the way home because she knew her mother was going to be good and mad. Lol!
Great video and beautiful. Thank you for taking the time especially with it cold and windy. Glad to see you didn’t wipe out.
I was close a couple of times.
Loved your slips and slides but pleased you didn’t injure yourself... or did you dunk in the icy pond on the way home...😉
No, thankfully I stayed dry with no broken bones👍
Love the videos
This is one of our favorite hikes! It’s such a beautiful view and a lovely photo opportunity with the ruins. Thank you!
It is lovely.
Today, all that remains of the chapel are parts of the north wall plus remnants of another building a little to the south west, which has sometimes been called a hermitage but was probably just a store room. The remaining chapel wall shows signs of vaulting, and it is thought that when complete the building would have comprised a small three-bay chapel, with a three-storey tower at its west end. This odd shape, almost as tall as it was long, supports the idea that the chapel was designed as much to ensure distant visibility as to accommodate worshippers.
That’s brilliant. Love learning more. Keep the facts coming.👍
Glad you got down safely. And appreciate the co-ordination of your hat and jumper! :-)
The coordination was completely unplanned. I’m not that forward thinking.😀
I would think those are for torches. Thanks for risking life and limb to take us there. It is beautiful can’t wait for more videos.
I thought they were for torches too, but I could see they were not hollow for anything to go in.
Love the journey today. Maybe do it again in summer 🤪
Great video we didn't get a chance to go up Arthur's seat last summer but it is definitely on our list the next time we visit. Keep up the good work.
Thanks. Hope we are giving you plenty of ideas for your next visit.
Very nice, but you would need to be very sure footed to go up that path!!
Love it.i am going to make sure to. Make my good hiking shoes!! Thank Tony!
Thank you. Yes, wear better footwear than I did👍
Went up Arthur's seat when I was 23 on my first short visit to Edinburgh. I'm 45 now and will be visiting for the second time from April 7-May 11. Hopefully there will be nice weather for me to go up Arthur's seat more than once. Cheers from Switzerland, love your channel :-)
Hello Switzerland, thank you so much. Glad you enjoy.
The chapel was probably owned by the military monastic knights of st Anthony, the Arthurs seat is named after the knights of the round table, the Templars of St Anthony were also in leith hospital commandery, there were lots of St Anthony commanderies all over Europe including the pigrims route of the way of St James in Spain, the order started in 1085 in Paris by an aristocrat after his son was cured after touching a St Anthony relic .
There were also the Hainault knights of St Antony started in 1350 by Duke Albert of Bavaria and Count of Holland that spread to England and a number of Englishman including Bernard Brocas belonged to the order, i've seen plenty of paintings of this knights order(Man with pinks by Jan Van Eyck) , the original knights of St Anthony seems to be secret society formed in Ethiopia in about 370AD not long after St Anthony the Great of Egypt died. The Tau cross was the symbol of St Anthony and Templars and Holy Trinity the Tau cross most likely derives from the Egyptian Ankh
Great video!
Thank you.
Thanks for the tough journey vid :D
no problem at all. Thanks for watching.
Great video, I have subscribed . Great channel thank you for sharing, I subbed because of your laugh haha :o) and I love Scotland.
Thank you so much. You gotta laugh otherwise what’s the point.😀
Great video. We've never even heard of St Anthony's Chapel but really want to check it out now.
I knew of it in the late 40's when i was a young lad .
Thanks, its is rally lovely. Next time you are in town you should take a wander up to it.
@@ClanBroonford we definitely will, looks like a nice walk up to it too.
Hooray! I was going to suggest this! :-)
Beat you to it.
As for dating, there are references to a grant paid for repairs to St Anthony's Chapel by the Pope in 1426, suggesting the building could date back into the 1300s or beyond. Details of its demise are equally unclear, but presumably, like Holyrood Abbey itself, St Anthony's Chapel fell into disuse and disrepair after the Reformation in 1560.
That sound the same as what i had read.
Hi Tony! Enjoying every video as my wife and I prepare to visit in early Sept. I worked at a pub on Frederick St. back in my bachelor days of 1990. Never visited Craigmillar Castle though... What about that place???
At some point i will get there.
Merci pour cette vidéo très intéressante, il y a tellement de choses à faire, continuez, votre travail est très utile...
Vous êtes les bienvenus. Je suis content que ça aide. J'espère que vous passerez un excellent séjour à Edimbourg.
J'espère venir vivre à Édimbourg le moment venu, un peu comme si je revenais chez moi... See you soon
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I’m enjoying all your videos prepping for my trip to Edinburgh in May. Maybe next time you go up wear some waterproof boots.😂 As my mother always said, you’ll have a much better time when you are wearing the proper shoes. Cheers.
This is good advice.
So glad I found you! Really enjoying your Edinburgh videos. We are coming in mid-September, so I am doing all the "investigation" here, ha. Don't know if you (or someone) could answer some questions I have - I can't get an answer from travel agents!!! (Weird...) So can someone confirm there is a Tourist Tax now in Edinburgh (and how much is that etc.), and should I be booking accommodations and tours now or closer to September? We are coming from BC Canada. Much thanks!!!
The tourist tax is new, not sure its actually in place...... yet. Apparently its something they do in mainland Europe. it will be £2 a day, but only for the first week. Other countries add it the whole time, however it is to be limited to 1 week only here. You should defiantly book accommodation soon. Although you are coming just after the festival so it should get a bit quieter, i just like to book early. Not sure about tours, but possible get organised for them. Hope that helps.
I’m glad you chose not to go up Arthur’s Seat on that day with Converse on lol
You should start a horseback riding tour up Arthur's seat
If only i could ride a horse.
When you do Aurther's Seat are you going to go the Hard way ?? lol We made that mistake when we visited 1 year ago. We didn't know about the " Other " way untill we were already at the top :)
I am scared to say that if I am doing it show people....I will have to do them all.
@@ClanBroonford I am so happy you are doing this. I will be going to Edinburgh this summer with my daughters and would like to know safe but beautiful ways to climb Arthur's Seat. Thank you for this!
@@NottaRobot The hard way is kinda safe if you are not affraid of heights an if you're daughter's arn't to young, it's a work out tho had to stop many time's just for a lil break my legs were killing me lol ..
@@PrincessWashburn That's why I started exercising! I want to get in shape so I can do all these fun things.
@@NottaRobot when we went we walked pretty much everywhere an let me tell ya.. it's a work out most is up hill an down hill lol but absolutely Amazing !!!! we done the Rabbies Day Tours also, HIGHLY recommend them if you are looking for day tours
Jesus wept I’ve been it there thrice and I’ve never seen this 😂
This properly made me laugh.
You did the hard work for me. Cheers.
Anne in Skye.
No problem at all, what i'm here for.
Nice place! Edinburgh has everything for all the tastes and all the beautiful places are so close. What i feel now is that i shouldn t have asked you to make this video because at this time of the year is very dangerous. It s impssible for you to see where you put your feet because you re looking at the camara. So please, stop doing it and start again in spring. It s too dangerous and you might be injured, really i got worried about that. Thank you very much and STOP 😢😢😢
I promise, i was safe the whole time. Never went too close to the edge.
You may fall and there s a lot of rocks! Be careful...
Got to say very that you might fall on your backside lol , I've noticed weird status around Edinburgh so might be cool if you can do a bush of vids , just a thought anyway love the vids 👍👌
Good idea.
is there a way to send you a gift?
That’s very kind of you, but no. At the moment we don’t have anywhere for anything like that. Thank you so much though.
@@ClanBroonford We really appreciate your videos and wanted to send you a couple t shirts. Let us know when you are able to do this. Keep up the good work. Aloha