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Medieval Church Paintings Revealed

🕑 Added 2022-08-03 01:52:24 +0000 UTC

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Kevin Hicks

Yep, such are the layers of history and so many people before us.

Chris

With that little medieval door and they way you react, I do exactly the same. I touch a brick of a castle and think "wonder if the person putting this here would think I would still be touching it hundreds of years later"

Kevin Hicks

You're welcome, I'm glad you enjoyed it 👍🏻

Kevin Hicks

Great stuff, I've never been to the Czech Republic.

Kevin Hicks

What a lovely way to put it Marco, thank you. Sadly though I'm not sure the architecture and buildings they tend to throw up these days will survive even 50 years let alone hundreds.

Kevin Hicks

Oh yes, that's for sure, you only have to look at Tintern Abbey for evidence of that. St Fagans is an amazing museum and yes, I've been to St Teilo's too, the paintings are quite something. 👍🏻

Kevin Hicks

Haha, cheers Dan 👍🏻

Dan De Lench

Wow, thanks for sharing, incredible history there, thank goodness Cromwell and his prudes didn't destroy it, guess you can tell I have Irish in me and no love for The Lord Protector! Until the next one cheers!

Michael Williams

If you visit St Fagans Museum in South Wales, you can visit St Teilo's Church. This has been decorated to show what a pre-Reformation church would have looked like with wall paintings, a rood screen and choir loft. I cannot imagine the effect it would have had on the congregation of the time seeing Bible stories as vivid multi-coloured paintings. People who if they could read at all had certainly never owned a book. I found it quite emotional to realise just how much of our culture had been destroyed in the 16th and 17th centuries.

David A Strother

I simply love your enthusiasm for history, and I do share it as well. History involves so much more than events themselves, and history of the people is usually so much more interesting. Thanks for sharing this with us.

Marco Engelbracht

So we can sum up: Puritans did the opposite of what they really intended. Instead of hiding the paintings they, unintendendly, preserved them for generations to come. I hope our generation will do equally good in preserving this present from the past to make it available for generations to come.

Mark Wright

Another fantastic video, Kevin. I'm fascinated by Medieval architecture. Especially religious buildings. A few years ago I took a trip to Sedlec Ossuary and Saint Barbara's Cathedral in the Czech Republic. Absolutely amazing.