St Peter's Church Wenhaston

The Wenhaston Doom

This video describes the background to, and meaning of the 15th century Wenhaston Doom (a painted oak screen), at St Peter's Church in Wenhaston, East Anglia, England. The paintings depict the Day of Judgement or Doomsday and are derived from The Bible. We hope that you find the video informative.

The Bells Chediston

A quiet walk through a Suffolk Churchyard

The Cathedral of the Marsh

Here I take a look around All Saints' Church Lydd.

Lydd lies in the middle of Romney Marsh between Dungeness and Appledore .
Originally on the coast it was a famous port and fishing town lying on an island on the opposite side of the estuary of the river Rother to New Romney . Lydd was founded on an island in the marshes by the Saxons and was known as Hylda .
Edward I in the Cinque Ports charter gave the rights to Lydd so that it shared taxes with New Romney on the catches of fish landed in the area.

The stonework of All Saints church was started by the Saxons, and some of this original stonework is still visible by the font. The wealth of Lydd enabled the church to be enlarged until it is now the largest of the churches on the Romney Marsh and is known as the Cathedral of the Marshes . The church tower was raised to 132ft high by Cardinal Wolsey in the 15th century.

In 1287 the Great Storm hit the channel and blocked the mouth of the Rother, changing its course to run south from Appledore to Rye . This change turned the harbour at Lydd into farmland and marsh, and destroyed its main claim to fame.
As the land grew around the island so the fishermen moved with it to the sea, today at Lydd on Sea about 3 miles south.

Accompanying music: Prelude No.13 in F Sharp Minor by Frederic Chopin.

Green Grow the Rushes, O | Wikipedia audio article

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00:01:18 1 Lyrics
00:02:18 2 Origins
00:04:10 3 Interpretation
00:11:32 4 Variants
00:11:49 4.1 The Twelve Apostles
00:12:50 4.2 The Dilly Song
00:14:05 5 Alternative titles
00:14:30 6 Related works
00:18:57 7 Settings and recordings



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Green Grow the Rushes, O (alternatively Ho or Oh) (also known as The Twelve Prophets, The Carol of the Twelve Numbers, The Teaching Song, The Dilly Song, or The Ten Commandments), is an English folk song (Roud #133) popular across the English-speaking world. It is sometimes sung as a Christmas carol.
The song is not to be confused with Robert Burns's similarly titled Green Grow the Rashes nor with the Altan song of the same name. It is cumulative in structure, with each verse built up from the previous one by appending a new stanza. The first verse is:

I'll sing you one, O
Green grow the rushes, O
What is your one, O?
One is one and all alone
And evermore shall be so.The song occurs in many variants, collected by musicologists including Sabine Baring-Gould and Cecil Sharp from the West of England at the start of the twentieth century. The stanzas are clearly much corrupted and often obscure, but the references are generally agreed to be both biblical and astronomical.