St John The Baptist Church, Chester. Walk around outside and inside.
Video of the outside of the church, the ruins and a quick look inside this wonderful church. Taken 14-1-17.
St John the Baptist's Church Ruins, Chester
St John the Baptist's Church, Chester is in the city of Chester, Cheshire, England. It lies outside the city walls on a cliff above the north bank of the River Dee. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Chester. Its benefice is combined with that of St Peter, Chester. it is considered to be the best example of 11th--12th century church architecture in Cheshire.
The church was reputedly founded by King Aethelred in 689. During the 11th century, Earl Leofric was a great benefactor of the church. In 1075 Peter, Bishop of Lichfield moved the seat of his see to Chester, making St John's his cathedral until he died in 1085. Peter's successor moved his seat to Coventry and St John's became a co-cathedral.The building of the church continued on a large scale until the end of the 13th century and continued as a collegiate church of secular canons.After the Dissolution, much of the east end of the church was demolished and some of it remains as ruins to the east of the present church. Since the Dissolution, it has been a parish church.
In 1468 the central tower collapsed. In 1572 the northwest tower partially collapsed and in 1574 there was a greater collapse of this tower which destroyed the western bays of the nave. This was rebuilt on a magnificent scale. There were restorations to the church in 1859--66 and 1886--87 by R. C. Hussey. While the northwest tower was being repaired in 1881 it collapsed again, this time destroying the north porch. The porch was rebuilt in 1881--82 by John Douglas. John Douglas also built the northeast belfry tower in 1886. In 1925 the chapel at the south east corner, then the Warburton chapel, was extended to form a Lady Chapel.
The church is built in sandstone. At the west end is the ruined first stage of the northwest tower. The plan of the body of the church consists of a four-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles and a north porch, a crossing with north and south transepts each of one bay, a five-bay chancel with aisles, and chapels at the north and south. The north chapel lies beneath the 1886 belfry tower and is now used as a vestry; the south chapel is the Lady Chapel. To the south of the Lady Chapel is a room known as the Chapter House.
Best of CHESTER |Roman Amphitheatre Ruins of St. John the Baptist Church
Here is the link to the self guided walking tour I’ve created in Chester, England.
We start our tour at the Eastgate and Eastgate Clock, where you can climb the stairs on the northeast side to walk along the wall in a clockwise direction. The Eastgate clock was added to the bridge (1899) in honour of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee (1897). It is said that Chester’s clock is the second most photographer clock in the UK, after Big Ben of course.
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St Johns Church Boughton
Haunted St Johns Church Boughton
A Short History of St John's Church Chester
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St Michaels Church Chester
Visitors guide to chester -
Chester (Cheshire UK) Cathedral + St Johns on the cliff, and historic walk about.
Make sure you activate the HD (High Definition) and full screen settings. This was shot in 4K video, but we all know that Youtube and Facebook both beat it to hell with a sledge hammer, before they show it. LOL.
Various parts of Chester, crammed into 5 minutes video.
I did not realize just how historic the place was until my 2nd visit at the beginning of March thi
s year 2015.
I had my birthday there in the snow, on the walls around the city.
Not many folk can say that, or even want that LOL.
EXPLORING the ORTHODOX MONASTERY of ST JOHN the BAPTIST, Tolleshunt Knights, ENGLAND ✝️
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St John's Chester Part2
St John's Chester Part2
St John the Baptist in Chester
Recorded by David W. Kim
Old St. John's Church, Boughton
This video documents one of Northamptonshire's most haunted and eerie locations. This site is the location of the Old St John's Church, with it's surviving fragments to the north of the Green of Boughton village near Northampton and Kingsthorpe. The church has been in ruins since at least 1757, and was significantly damaged further in 1784 when the spire collapsed. The current church of St John Baptist is in the village and believed to date from c.1350, with extensions in 1807 and 1874.
Many have reported unexplained events, sounds, apparitions and auras upon visits to this churchyard, and this is something I personally hope to explore in the near future.
Filmed on my Sony Cybershot DSC-H55 digital camera on 18th September 2014.
St John's Chester Part1
St John's Chester Part1
Chester St john the Baptist (old & new )
Photo'sof this church in Chester
4K. CHESTER. THE WALLED CATHEDRAL CITY. APRIL 2017.
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This is a 4K (3840 x 2160 pixels) video of Chester. An old Roman City in the North West of England. This is still partially walled, and has a magnificent Cathedral and a world renowned zoo. (Both the Zoo and the Cathedral will have separate videos posted by me, here on Youtube). Along with the very old church of St. John the Baptist', which stands close to the amphitheatre, just outside the city walls. This church was founded by the great Saxon Minster of Mercia in 689AD. King Aethelred of Mercia, possibly on the site of a Roman Christian Church or Shrine. The building was enhanced in 907 by Ethelfleda, known as 'the Lady of Mercia' and the daughter of the Saxon King Alfred the Great. King Edgar the Peaceful visited the church in 973 following his coronation at Bath, to receive the homage of his sub-kings, who legend has it, rowed him on the River Dee to the Church. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII, much of the eastern end of the church was demolished but parts of it still remain, a romantic, roofless ruin, standing to the east of the present building. The year 1468 saw the dramatic collapse of the central tower. Again, in 1572 the northwest tower collapsed causing the destruction of the western bays of the nave. Restorations to the church took place in in 1859-66 and 1886-87 to the design of R. C. Hussey. During the course of repairs to the northwest tower in 1881 it collapsed again, on this occasion destroying the north porch. The porch was rebuilt in 1881-82 by the Victorian architect John Douglas. John Douglas also designed the northeast belfry tower in 1886. The red sandstone church exterior is mainly in the Early English due to the Victorian restorations, whilst much of the interior remains Norman. To the east stand ruined remains including parts of former chapels, abandoned in 1581 when St John's became a parish. St John's is one of the best examples in Britain of the transition from the Romanesque to Gothic styles of architecture. There is a four-bay nave, crossing and chancel, all Norman, and a Norman gallery in the chancel. A thirteenth century painting of Christ on one of the nave pillars was rediscovered when whitewash from Puritan times was removed in the nineteenth century. The church contains many interesting early effigies, unfortunately, all have been damaged, they include a late thirteenth century knight in armour, and a priest, three of these date back to the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. The church contains two fonts, one dating from the 15th century, the other from the Commonwealth period. Some fine examples of Viking/Anglo-Saxon cross heads are displayed in the nave of the church. Dating from around the tenth century, they are reputedly from the workshop established in the quarry of St Johns by Irish-Norse traders who settled in Chester during the 10th Century. Similar crosses thought to have been from the same workshop have been found over a wide area. The cross heads were unearthed from the eastern area of St Johns during the 1870 restoration. The great West Window dates to 1890. It shows numerous important episodes in the long history of Chester and St. John's. The church plate includes two damaged pewter chalices and a paten from the late 12th or early 13th centuries and a number of silver items from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.The impressive organ came from Westminster Abbey, where it was used for the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838.
The Lady chapel at the south east corner of the building was created during restorations in 1925 when the then the Warburton chapel was extended. The chapel contains monuments to the Warburton family, including a notable late seventeenth century memorial to Diana Warburton (d. 1693).
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Chester, is a city in Cheshire, England. Lying on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales, and is the largest and most populous settlement of the wider unitary authority area of Cheshire West and Chester, which had a population of 328,100 according to the 2001 Census. Chester was granted city status in 1541.
Chester was founded as a castrum or Roman fort with the name Deva Victrix in the year 79 by the Roman Legio II Adiutrix during the reign of the Emperor Vespasian. Chester's four main roads, Eastgate, Northgate, Watergate and Bridge, follow routes laid out at this time -- almost 2,000 years ago. One of the three main Roman army camps, Deva later became a major settlement in the Roman province of Britannia. The Roman Empire fell three hundred years later, and the Romano-British established a number of petty kingdoms in its place. Chester is thought to have been part of Powys at this time. King Arthur is said to have fought his ninth battle at the city of the legions and later St Augustine came to the city to try and unite the church and hold his synod with the Welsh Bishops. In 616, Æthelfrith of Northumbria defeated a Welsh army at the Battle of Chester and probably established the Anglo-Saxon position in the area from then on.
In the late 7th century, (AD 689) King Æthelred of Mercia founded the Minster Church of West Mercia on what is considered to be an early Christian Site and known as The Minster of St John the Baptist, Chester (now St John's Church) which later became the first cathedral. Much later the body of thelred's Niece, St Werburgh was removed from Hanbury in Staffordshire in the 9th century and, in order to save its desecration by Danish marauders, she was reburied in the Church of SS Peter & Paul - later to become the Abbey Church (the present cathedral). Her name is still remembered in St Werburgh's Street which passes alongside the cathedral, and near to the city walls. A new Church dedicated to St Peter alone was founded in AD907 by the Lady Æthelfleda at what was to become the Cross
The Saxons extended and strengthened the walls of Chester to protect the city against the Danes, who occupied it for a short time until Alfred seized all the cattle and laid waste the surrounding land to drive them out. In fact it was Alfred's daughter Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, that built the new Saxon burh. The Anglo-Saxons called Chester Ceaster or Legeceaster.
In 973, the Anglo Saxon Chronicle records that, two years after his coronation at Bath, King Edgar of England, came to Chester where he held his court in a palace in a place now known as Edgar's field near the old Dee bridge in Handbridge. Taking the helm of a barge, he was rowed the short distance up the River Dee from Edgar's field to the great Minster Church of St John the Baptist by six (the monk Henry Bradshaw records he was rowed by eight kings) tributary kings called 'reguli'.
Chester was one of the last towns in England to fall to the Normans in the Norman conquest of England. William the Conqueror ordered the construction of a castle, to dominate the town and the nearby Welsh border.
Chester has a number of medieval buildings, but some of the black-and-white buildings within the city centre are actually Victorian restorations. Chester is one of the best preserved walled cities in Britain. Apart from a 100-metre (330 ft) section, the listed Grade I walls are almost complete.
The Industrial Revolution brought railways, canals, and new roads to the city, which saw substantial expansion and development -- Chester Town Hall and the Grosvenor Museum are examples of Victorian architecture from this period
Chester Minstrel's Court - Blast from the Past
Duo `Blast from the Past' at the 2012 Minstrel's Court in St. John the Baptist church, Chester.
Cotwolds, UK Weekend Tour
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The Cotswolds is a very large area that’s covers roughly 800 square miles. Join us, as we take a weekend tour through Five counties (Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire and Worcestershire).
Throughout this tour, we visit the following locations:
- St. Martins Church in Bladon
- Blenhemim Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire
- Woodstock, Oxfordshire
- St. Kenelm’s Church in Minster Lovell
- St. Mary’s Church in Swinbrook
- Birbury in Gloucestershire
- St. Mary’s the Virgin Church in Bibury
- Burford
- Burford Almshouses
- St. John the Baptist Church in Burford
- Bourton-on-the-water in Gloucestershire
- St. Lawrence Church in Bourton-on-the-Water
- The Slaughters in Gloucestershire
- Stow-on-the-Wold
- St. Edwards Church in Stow-on-the-Wold
- Market Cross in Stow-on-the-Wold
- Rollright Stones in the Cotswolds
- Great Tew in Oxfordshire
- Long Compton in Warwickshire
- St. Peter and St. Paul Church in Long Compton
- Broadway Tower in Worcestershire
- The Town of Broadway in Worcestershire
- Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire
St John's Church, Polperro, Cornwall - Christmas Carol Service
This was recorded in 1996.
Service was conducted by Mary Hall. Organist: Jim Howat.
The church closed in 2008.
Talland was the mother church of Polperro and is some three miles along the coast towards Looe.
I believe the attendance dropped due to irregular service times and some weeks with no service at all. The video proves the church was well supported at the time.
You can read more about Polperro church and the closure on the BBC news website at
Places to see in ( Chester - UK )
Places to see in ( Chester - UK )
Chester is a city in northwest England, founded as a Roman fortress in the 1st century A.D. It's known for its extensive Roman walls made of local red sandstone. In the old city, the Rows is a shopping district distinguished by 2-level covered arcades and Tudor-style half-timber buildings. A Roman amphitheatre, with ongoing excavations, lies just outside the old city's walls.
Chester is a walled city in Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales. Chester was founded as a castrum or Roman fort with the name Deva Victrix in the reign of the Emperor Vespasian in 79 AD. One of the main army camps in Roman Britain, Deva later became a major civilian settlement. In 689, King Æthelred of Mercia founded the Minster Church of West Mercia, which later became Chester's first cathedral, and the Saxons extended and strengthened the walls to protect the city against the Danes. Chester was one of the last cities in England to fall to the Normans. William the Conqueror ordered the construction of a castle, to dominate the town and the nearby Welsh border.
Chester is one of the best preserved walled cities in Britain. It has a number of medieval buildings, but some of the black-and-white buildings within the city centre are Victorian restorations. Apart from a 100-metre (330 ft) section, the listed Grade I walls are almost complete. The Industrial Revolution brought railways, canals, and new roads to the city, which saw substantial expansion and development – Chester Town Hall and the Grosvenor Museum are examples of Victorian architecture from this period.
Bus transport in the city is provided by Stagecoach Group and Arriva Buses Wales, the council owned and operated ChesterBus (formerly Chester City Transport). Chester formerly had two railway stations. Chester General railway station remains in use but Chester Northgate closed in 1969 as a result of the Beeching Axe. The Chester Canal had locks down to the River Dee. Canal boats could enter the river at high tide to load goods directly onto seagoing vessels.
Alot to see in ( Chester - UK ) such as :
Grosvenor Museum
Eastgate and Eastgate Clock
Grosvenor Park, Chester
Chester Zoo
Cheshire Military Museum
Chester Roman Amphitheatre
St Michael's Church, Chester
Chester Cathedral
Blue Planet Aquarium
Chester Castle
Ness Botanic Gardens
Tatton Park
Wales Coast Path
Chester city walls
Dewa Roman Experience
Chester Roman Gardens
St John the Baptist's Church, Chester
Hawarden Castle
Chester Cathedral Falconry and Nature Gardens
King Charles Tower, Chester UK
Minerva's Shrine, Chester
Chester High Cross
Suspension Bridge, Chester
Blacon Adventure Playground
Marford Quarry
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