St. Lawrence's Church, West Wycombe Uk.wmv
St. Lawrence's Church, West Wycombe Uk
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#exploring St Lawrence church, West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK
St Lawrence's Church is a Church of England church in the parish of West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. It sits on top of West Wycombe Hill in a prominent position overlooking the West Wycombe Road, and surrounding villages. West Wycombe Hill is managed by the #NationalTrust, although the church and graveyard are owned by the Church of England. The church resides in the #Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. St Lawrence Church and the mausoleum both occupy similar positions on top of West Wycombe Hill, and the Church tower is visible for many miles around. The top of the tower is the highest point in the Southern Chilterns and on a clear day it is possible to see West London.
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ST LAWRENCE'S CHURCH - BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.
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'Saint Lawrence Church' on West Wycombe Hill
Although it is on the busy A40, the village centre retains much of its historical charm. It is mainly owned by the National Trust, and so has resisted modernisation. The High Street has a number of 'old-fashioned' shops (in appearance at least), as well as three pubs, some small offices and a well-used village hall. Just off the High Street are the village Combined School and a traditional garden centre. The population is around 1,300.
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St.Lawrence Church,UK,(history in description)
St Lawrence's Church is a Church of England church in the parish of West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. It sits on top of West Wycombe Hill in a prominent position overlooking the West Wycombe Road, and surrounding villages. West Wycombe Hill is managed by the National Trust,although the church and graveyard are owned by the Church of England. The church resides in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. St Lawrence Church and the mausoleum both occupy similar positions on top of West Wycombe Hill, and the Church tower is visible for many miles around. The top of the tower is the highest point in the Southern Chilterns and on a clear day it is possible to see West London,
Drone footage was taken using my DJI Phantom and my racing drone that i build.
Video footage taken with my Nikkon DSLR camera.
Architecture
Heritage designation
Grade I listed church
Architect(s)
Widely believed John Donowell
Architectural type
Mixed, medieval and neoclassical
Style,Classical and Rococo
Completed
3 July 1763
West Wycombe Parish.
Wycombe Deanery.
Diocese of Oxford.
Rev'd Dr Allan Barton.
The medieval church served the lost medieval village of Haveringdon and of this building the 14th century chancel and tower remain, though heavily remodelled. The Grade I listed church was gradually rebuilt in its current form by Sir Francis Dashwood, 1st Baronet and Baron Le Despenser. In the 1750s the medieval west tower was raised to make it an eye-catcher from West Wycombe Estate, West Wycombe House and also from the West Wycombe road as one exits towards the West. It was topped by a great golden ball, possibly inspired by the Dogana, Venice. The ball reputed to be a meeting place for the Hellfire Club – it could seat 10, and was described by the author John Wilkes as “the best globe tavern I was ever in.” It has been suggested that Sir Francis Dashwood used a heliograph to signal through a porthole in the golden ball to his friend, John Norris (1721–1786), who had erected a tower, now known as the Camberley Obelisk, near his home at Hawley, Hampshire, 21 miles to the south.
Between 1761 and 1763 the nave was rebuilt and medieval chancel was remodelled.
The nave as remodelled by Dashwood has the appearance of a “very superb Egyptian hall” in a Vitruvian sense and is derived from Robert Wood’s prints of the ancient Temple of the Sun, Palmyra. It has five bays five and is lined with engaged Corinthian columns under a continuous entablature, the pillars decorated to emulate porphrey. The design of the Trompe-l'œil ceiling in the nave is taken directly from one of Wood's engravings. There is more Trompe-l'œil painting on the walls of the remodelled medieval chancel and in the centre of the chancel ceiling is a painting of the Last Supper after Rembrant. All the painting is by Giovanni Borgnis. Throughout there is spectacular Rococo plasterwork and Dashwood provided fine new woodwork for the church, including Mahogany stalls for the clergy.
The architect of all this work is likely to have been John Donowell who was working for Sir Francis Dashwood at West Wycombe Park.
The golden ball can be seen for miles around and is a recognised symbol of West Wycombe village. It is made from a wooden frame covered in gold leaf, 8 feet in diameter, and contains seating for up to six people. There were rumours that the Hellfire Club, founded by Sir Francis Dashwood (1708–1781), met inside the golden ball, but there is no evidence for that. It is no longer possible for the public to enter the ball.
The churchyard contains eleven Commonwealth war graves, six from World War I and five from World War II.
21 HST 's at Waltham St Lawrence 14 March 2007
HST's stormin' and performin' on the up and the down at Waltham 14/3/07
St Lawrence's Church, Snarford
St Lawrence's Church, Snarford, is a redundant Anglican church in the parish of Snarford, Lincolnshire, England (grid reference TF 051 825). It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The church stands to the north of the A46 road between Market Rasen and Lincoln. It is a medieval building containing impressive 16th- and 17th-century monuments
Flying my Mavic Air over St Lawrence Church - West Wycombe - Golden Ball
One of the first flights filming with our new DJI Mavic Air. Dad did most of the filming and editing. So lucky to have this beautiful landscape on our doorstep. Lovely location,
Gorgeous weather and a lovely walk with the dog
Only our second flight with the drone so still learning, good conditions, great visibility not many people around, respect for privacy - safety first.
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West Wycombe The Dashwood Mausoleum St Lawrence Church Part 1
Looking at the old st Lawrence church and the west wycombe hell fire caves.
Plus had a quick look at the Dashwood Mausoleum.
Timelapse Aug 22nd & 23rd Berkshire, England
This timelapse covers the two days 22nd + 23rd August, looking North on the first day, and looking East on the second. The music is a section of Mike oldfield, Incantations, part four.
Images taken by wingscapes timelapsecam 8.0 every 30 seconds.
Exploring @Haunted Hell Fire Caves,& Orbs?,West Wycombe,Bucks,(History in Description).
The Hellfire Caves (also known as the West Wycombe Caves) are a network of man-made chalk and flint caverns which extend a quarter of a mile (250 metres) underground. They are situated above the village of West Wycombe, at the southern edge of the Chiltern Hills near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, Southeast England.
They were excavated between 1748 and 1752 for Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer (2nd Baronet), founder of the Dilettanti Society and co-founder of the Hellfire Club, whose meetings were held in the caves. The caves have been operating as a tourist attraction since 1951.
The caves run into the hillside above West Wycombe village and directly beneath St Lawrence's Church and Mausoleum (which were also constructed by Sir Francis Dashwood around the same time the caves were excavated). West Wycombe Park, ancestral seat of the Dashwood family and also a National Trust property, lies directly across the valley. The caves' striking entrance, designed as the façade of a mock gothic church and built from flint and chalk mortar, which was erected in around 1752, can be viewed directly from West Wycombe House.
The unusual design of the caves was much inspired by Sir Francis Dashwood's visits to Italy, Greece, Turkey, Syria and other areas of the Ottoman Empire during his Grand Tour. The caves extend a quarter of a mile (250 metres) underground, with the individual caves or chambers connected by a series of long, narrow tunnels and passageways.
A route through the underground chambers proceeds, from the Entrance Hall, to the Steward's Chamber and Whitehead's Cave, through Lord Sandwich's Circle (named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich), Franklin's Cave (named after Benjamin Franklin, a friend of Dashwood who visited West Wycombe), the Banqueting Hall (allegedly the largest man-made chalk cavern in the world), the Triangle, to the Miner's Cave; and finally, across a subterranean river named the Styx, lies the final cave, the Inner Temple, where the meetings of the Hellfire Club were held, and which is said to lie 300 feet (90 metres) directly beneath the church on top of West Wycombe hill. In Greek mythology, the River Styx separated the mortal world from Hades, and the subterranean position of the Inner Temple directly beneath St Lawrence's Church was supposed to signify Heaven and Hell.
The theory that the caves resulted from flint mining is also questionable because the Chiltern Hills flint bed overlies the chalk escarpment and does not have to be mined, except by means of small open flint dells, of which there are many in the area.
West Wycombe HellFire Caves GHOST & St Lawrence Church Mausoleum
Recent visit to West Wycombe HellFire Caves and St Lawrence church Mausoleum, even captured what looked like a Ghost in the caves
West Wycombe
Dreamy thing shot in West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK
Music by Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)
West Wycombe & West Wycombe House
West Wycombe House and its 5000 acre estate is the home of the Dashwood family and has been since 1698. The first Sir Francis Dashwood built a house on the site, although barely any of this original house is visible, as it was incorporated into the extensive remodelling of the house undertaken by his son the second Sir Francis Dashwood.
The house is still substantially as this Sir Francis left it, drawing inspiration from his Grand Tour through Europe in his youth, he created an exquisite Palladian villa that with its porticoes and colonnades would be equally comfortable set in either Italy or Greece.
The current Premier Baronet of Great Britain is Sir Edward Dashwood, 12th. Bt, and he currently resides at West Wycombe Park with his wife and family.
The house today is frequently featured in screen adaptations of literary classics such as Cranford and Little Dorrit and more recently in the television series, Downton Abbey. Other films include W.E., The Importance of being Earnest, I Capture the Castle, The Lost Prince and He Knew He was Right.
West Wycombe Village flyover with a pan around the George & Dragon Inn. The same Inn where Suki had died after a tragic night in the caves that are located under the golden ball.
Visiting Dashwood Mousoleum
Had a spare hour on Saturday evening and visited Dashwood Mausoleum in High Wycombe, England.
Rushton Spencer
Videoed from St Lawrence's church
The Mausoleum Line (1a) - The Dashwood Family
The Mausoleum Line - Part 1a - The Dashwood Family. Written by Bernard Lee. Narrated by Natural Reader 14.
West Wycombe Park (National Trust)
St Lawrence Church Lechlade Cotswolds England 2018
LECHLADE COTSWOLDS ENGLAND July 2018 St Lawrence Church is located by the River Thames in the attractive village of Lechlade in the Cotswolds.
West Wycombe part 1- Hellfire Caves,
Shadowlands explore the Hellfire caves in West Wycombe.
The caves run deep into the hillside above West Wycombe village and directly beneath St Lawrence's Church and Mausoleum (which were also constructed by Sir Francis Dashwood around the same time the caves were excavated). West Wycombe Park, ancestral seat of the Dashwood family and also a National Trust property, lies directly across the valley. The caves' striking entrance, designed as the façade of a mock gothic church and built from flint and chalk mortar, which was erected in around 1752, can be viewed directly from West Wycombe House.
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