Cedd of Lastingham
Crypt where St Cedd's body was first laid to rest in 664AD
Karen Brown's Lastingham Grange, Lastingham, England
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The Lastingham Grange, in the town of Lastingham
The village of Lastingham is unhurried and peaceful, an oasis of green surrounded by the rugged, untamed beauty of the North York Moors National Park.
Lastingham Grange preserves a 1950s style—everything is in apple-pie order, with such things as flowery wallpapers, and patterned carpets giving an old-fashioned air.
I love the long lounge crowded with intimate groupings of sofas and chairs where in the morning the smell of furniture polish mixes with fresh-brewed coffee as you enjoy your morning coffee and homemade biscuits.
The charm of the house extends outside where a broad terrace leads to the rose garden and acres of less formal gardens, which give way to fields and the distant moor.
Guests of all ages and their dogs are welcome—there are listening devices for babies and a large adventure playground tucked beyond the formal garden where older children can play.
The village church dates back to 1078 when a group of monks built a crypt to house the sacred remains of St. Cedd, which now remains a church beneath a church.
Thirty miles distant lies medieval York and, closer at hand, narrow roads lead you to the coast with its fishing villages and long sandy beaches.
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3D LASER SURVEY OF LASTINGHAM CRYPT
3d laser survey of the Lastingham crypt: collecting data.
Ingrid Johnson and Tom Todd sing at Lastingham Church, England
Ingrid Johnson and Tom Todd sing in celebration of Roger and Joyce Coupland's 90th and 80th birthdays at St. Mary's Church, Lastingham, North Yorkshire
St Mary's, Lastingham
Voskresenije in St Mary's, Lastingham
Pilgrimage - Saint Cedd of Lastingham
Michael Tuck, a parish priest from Western Massachusetts (Lenox) will be visiting shrines and holy places around England. Prayers and more information can be found on his blog
Lastingham Ride
Fun on the moor
Tour of The Crypt - St Marys Cathedral
Cantemus at St Mary's, Lastingham, October 2006
A concert given at the ancient crypt church of St Mary, Lastingham, North Yorkshire by Spalding Chamber Choir Cantemus, conducted by Eric Wayman
English Countryside picnic with Jed - Hutton-Le-Hole & Lastingham
This was in celebration of our 2-year anniversary of living in England! Jed liked it!
Peru: Hidden early Christian crypt discovered with dozens of skeletons
Archaeologists in Peru have accidentally stumbled upon a centuries-old crypt with dozens of skeletons inside in the city of Cusco.
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The excavation of human remains at the Hinkley Point site
An archaeologist from Cotswold Archaeology talking about the excavation of human remains from the excavation site at Hinkley Point.
Improvisation in G in the Church of St.Cedd,Lastingham
A lovely piano in a beautiful church with gorgeous acoustics.Couldn't resist.
Helmsley castle,church,Whitby,St Mary's church
a view of Helmsley castle and church,
and a view of St. Mary's church in Whitby, North-East England.
Luis Caldas?
Historical Building Interior 3D Laser Survey
Using 3D laser scanning to document historic building interiors for posterity and in case of catastrophic disaster. Laser scanning creates an exact 3D model of everything accurate to a few mm.
Spaunton Moor, North York Moors - 4 July 2011
A short walk from Lastingham across Spaunton Moor to Ana Cross and back.
Glastonbury Abbey - Lady Chapel undercroft 3D visualisation
Both the Lady Chapel and the crypt chapel beneath it were popular places of pilgrimage. This 3D visualisation shows what the crypt would have looked like in the early 16th century. People left their crutches at the altar and hung votives from hooks above as gifts of thanks for miraculous cures.
Visit to find out more about the latest insights into the spiritual and archaeological history of Glastonbury Abbey, based on research led by the University of Reading in collaboration with the University of York and Glastonbury Abbey.
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Kissing the Bees (2019) Emily Hesse
There are five stone circles on the North York Moors: Standing Stone Rigg circle,
deep in the forest above Harwood Dale, and the Bridestones of Tripsdale are
most probably disarticulated burial mounds. Nine Stones circle on Thimbleby
Moor and the Sleddale stone circle are genuine circles whilst the Bridestones of
Sleights moor above Grosmont are so damaged, perhaps as a consequence of
clerical disapproval that it is difficult to make sense of them.
All of them have their own folklore and often that folklore is articulated around
witch-lore and witches such as Nan Skaife, Abigail Craster and Auld Nanny.
There are also isolated stones known as Old Wives most often associated with
Old Wives paths and ways. There were a number of great folklorists of these
moorlands: Canon John Atkinson, Richard Blakeborough, Jack Fairfax-
Blakeborough, Frank Elgee, Raymond Hayes and Bertram Frank. It is Bertram
Frank who we owe much of what we know about a certain witch manuscript to
and whose words you will hear in the film spoken by Emily Hesse. The witch
manuscript, dedicated to understanding the witch-lore of the North York Moors,
was commissioned in 1814 and finally presented in 1823. It was commissioned
by an antiquary known as MS and eventually came into the hands of Bertram
Frank before it was subsequently lost. Bertram Frank translated this obscure and
mysterious manuscript and combined with an understanding of witch history
largely gleaned from the, now largely discredited, work of Margaret Murray
defined the witch-religion as a palaeolithic survival some thirty-thousand years
old. Frank revels, as does Hesse, in the description of worshippers dancing
round the stone circles in their 'birthday suits'. This witch history was long
associated with bee lore in this great 'bee-country'. Often the bees themselves
would swarm to the tower of Lastingham church, standing high upon its crypt of
desecration and absence. Nan Skaife stands upon Spaunton Moor summoning
the bees to her aid.
Hesse made her pilgrimage to all of the stone circles of the North York Moors in
the spring and early summer of 2019. This was a ritual return of blessing and
gifting to the stones of our ancestors. She dressed the stones, offered
supplication to them. The stones have not been dressed for two centuries or
more. Much of the folklore of be-ribboning the stone had dissipated as our
ancestors moved out of the dales. No longer did the local vicars provide haven to
the witch or indeed dance themselves naked around the stones as they once did.
The ritual of dressing and offering that Hesse undertakes is a ritual underneath
clouds darkened with storm, on moors where the mountain ash is thrown around
in the westerly wind, where the rain darkened the stones as she dressed them.
Each pilgrimage to Nine Stones, to Sleddale, to the Bridestones was a journey of
light and darkness, of revealing and catastrophe. Hesse wears black shrouds,
white dresses, yellow frocks. The stones are dressed and be-ribboned too. The
sky is also black, white, yellow. The earth turns in its sempiternal darkness. We
are lost in a moor in the heart of an alien world spinning through the darkness of
planets and constellations. Our civilisations collapse, the badgers are in the
hypocaust, the roofs of our temples have fallen, the bees have been kissed.
Summer is coming in - the bees are with us, the witches have returned, the
powers of the earth tremble before them.
Martyn Hudson
Northumbria University
The excavation of St Rumbold's Churchyard in Mechelen
From November 2009 until Feburary 2011, the department of Archaeology at the city council of Mechelen (Belgium) excavated St Rumbold's Churchyard in the city centre, due to plans for the reconstruction of underground parking at this location. More than 4000 articulated skeletons and 100 secondary burials were excavated.
A walk though The Saxon Crypt under Ripon Cathedral.
The Saxon Crypt under Ripon Cathedral.Used by the Monks as a place of solitude