Well hello! This is a very pleasant surprise. A young man who loves our sublime English heritage. I cannot put into words the magical auras I have experienced in Suffolk’s fields, lanes, marshes and woods, and enchanting little villages. Much of my childhood revolves around the Waveny Valley and South Norfolk and other disconnected parts of Suffolk such as Hoxne, Lavenham, Yoxford and Somerleyton. I’m 29, how old are you? I’d love to meet you and explore some of our country’s treasures!

Glad to have viewed your video. I believe the Etruscan burial effigies are the ancient references that influenced later Italian and other funeral monuments.

The musical interludes with landscapes are almost as delightful as your commentary.

Very interesting, thank you for sharing so much in-depth about this lovely historical church. I did wonder if was due to this family that some pubs were named after them. The Drury Pub, some roads too were given the name Drury, we have a Drury road in our town and it once had a Drury pub.

Around 40 years ago I lived in the neighbouring parish of Lawshall and visited Hawstead church to make a brass-rubbing.

Thankyou for posting this. I thoroughly enjoyed your tour of Hawstead church! As a church enthusiast myself I share your enthusiasm for these wonderful buildings. I hope that you can do some more videos.

Something dramatic in the West needs to happen for us get back to the roots of our cultural foundations and save our faith and churches.

Don't keep saying this is beautiful, that is beautiful. Your audience can decide for themselves whether they find things beautiful. Explain what we see. Maybe, occasionally, you can day *you* think it is beautiful, provided you explain *why* you think so.

Thank you Daniël, for making and sharing these videos! I enjoy it very much -although I set the speed on 75%, because I'm not a English native, fluent speaker - I suppose you recieve a lot of credits for this journey fro. your college? I like the initiative as a former teacher. One advice: Keep your hands on your back! It isn't necessary to your good performance and can put a bit of restlessnes in it, you see ... From Holland with ❤

Great stuff, thank you! Have you considered recording audio guides for churches? You could charge for these or offer them to Pateron subscribers. 🙂

What amazing videos! You are a good presenter and have showed the beautiful architecture mainly countryside. You need walking to get some beautiful old and historic buildings. It’s so exciting. I would love to get time to do the same. I love it. That is a kind of weekend I would like to get. Thanks for all those gifts! Sorry my english, I am from Brasil and I study History. I’ve loved your work. It really made my eyes shine. Keep going on. 😊

The oil refinery is known as Valero these days

Please do a video on Erwaton Church!! very much one of Suffolk's Secrets!

Suburb work, thank you for sharing.

Great content brother keep it up

time to get in touch with theSalisbury oganist,for a calabe, Dan

Another excellent video, Daniiel. You manage to combine remarkable expertise with a delightful sense of humor. Please keep going (after those blisters heal).

I do congratulate you on an informative well presented video. Really enjoying the pilgrimage.

So well done, thank you, l have subscribed.

Daniel excelente trabajo. Me encantan tus videos!

Excellent video!

Hey, you should try directing your video titles a little better so more people can find you - I've been looking for content like this for ages and I found you through Instagram - I think adding a shorter title would up your views !

Great video Daniel, a big up to the Friends of Friendless Churches. They do wonderful work.

I think I enjoyed this episode most of all of them so far. That arts and crafts church is a real gem, and your little speech about the Great War was quite touching. One comes across these poignant references so often - there was one I came across in Oxfordshire commemorating two brothers which was terribly moving. I think too few people nowadays appreciate the terrible trauma that war caused. Glad the sun came out for the second half!

Who is accompanying you on your journey?

Perhaps the Pilgrim effigy isn't for a particular pilgrim, but rather represents all pilgrims who have died on the way to St David's. You come to a church on a pilgrimage route and say prayers for the repose of all pilgrims who have died going before you. Just a possibility

Hi Daniel, not lynch gates but lych gates. The term lych (lich) comes from the Old English for word for corpse. The gates and roof were a shelter for the corpse whilst waiting for the funeral. Further, in case you come across a hearse in a church. The funeral hearse was originally a wooden or metal framework, which stood over the bier or coffin and supported the pall. A pall is a heavy cloth that is draped over a coffin. Often the church owned one which it would hire out for the funeral. Wealthy families often had a family pall. Thus the term pallbearer is used to signify someone who "bears" the coffin which the pall covers. In Roman times, a cape or cloak was called the pallium. In medieval times the term pallium was shortened to pall. Christians would use a pall to cover their loved ones when burying them. If you were a pall bearer your other job was to make sure that the pall didn't shift and reveal the corpse which in medieval times would have simply been shrouded, ie wrapped in fabric linen or woollen. Around 1666-1680 in England the shroud had to be woollen by law. You can still buy Palls today cf www.churchsupplywarehouse.com/apparel-vestments/funeral.html Your narration is excellent, approachable and erudite. Keep it up, these tours are so enjoyable.

My wife and I stumbled across this channel a few days ago and now the Pembrokeshire Pilgrimage series has become a part of our evening schedule. Keep up the amazing work, Daniel, and greetings from western Pennsylvania.

The landscape makes me thinking of Thomas Hardy novel “Far From The Madding Crowd” that I read first in Italian when I was 15 and then in English, when I was able to do it ( I know, it was Dorset)…thank you for this informative and lovely videos!

This series on pilgrimage is such a delight - I shall be devastated when it ends. Pembrokeshire is the only part of Wales I have personally visited, so it's great to get to know byways then unseen. As a thankyou and in memory of the 19-year old soldier commemorated at Llandeloy, I offer you this favourite poem of mine by the war poet Wilfred Owen: "Fragment" - I saw his round mouth's crimson deepen as it fell, / Like a Sun in his last deep hour; / Watched the magnificent recession of farewell, / Clouding, half gleam, half glower, / And a last splendour burn the heavens of his cheek. / And in his eyes / The cold stars lighting, very old and bleak, / In different skies.

Great video, Daniel, and a lovely church. Unlike a fellow commentator, I rather like hatchments!

How did you get so knowledgeable?!

Hello! Personally, I have enjoyed watching your videos about architectural detailing and the explanations of different features within old churches! I am from the western United States and have a particular fascination with what are called 'prairie churches', which are small wooden structures often located in the middle of an expansive field. Thanks for taking a keen interest in the preservation of these unique structures! Sending my admiration from the United States!

All who follow your channel are so very fortunate. Thank you for taking us with you, and for the wonderful introduction to these historic ecclesiastical buildings. I can only imagine what may have gone on in and around these churches over the years. I couldn't help but notice that the images of St. Mary and St. John are "missing" (were they ever there?) from the rood screen at that final church.

Sir John Betjeman would be proud of you. Videos are great and you are a wonderful presenter.

Really fine selection of music! Your presentation is getting better all the time and is never boring. I hope you do another series as soon as your feet recover… lol!

I've really enjoyed watching your series of videos - really interesting but also really calming and nice to watch. You're a good presenter as well.

I've seen a few pilgrim effigies in churches now. I was always under the assumption that pilgrims were quite poor people, it seems a surprise to me that they would be buried inside the building, and with such a large tomb. Can anyone enlighten me?

I believe the rainbow in the reredos reminds us of the new covenant between God and Man made by Christ's sacrifice in lieu of that made with Noah after the flood.

The scenery of that part of wales is beautiful. The family of a friend of mine have a holiday chalet near Roche , last time I stayed there we went to St David’s Cathedral and Bishop’s Palace. So I am looking forward to your next video about the cathedral. Appreciate the time and effort you have put into creating this series of videos Daniel

Excellent videos - thank you. Cawdor (as in Macbeth's Thane of Cawdor) is pronounced rather like the surname of the great film director, Alexander Korda, with the emphasis on the first syllable.

Rural Wales is always so lovely and beautiful, even in the rain. Rolling green fields of fluffy sheep, the perfect picture of country idyll! Even soaking, you make a really good and cheerful presenter! I hope at least the 21st century equivalent of your castle was dry and warm! I always loved the carved ornamentation, it's just so much fine skill and expertise required to produce something like that!! We're glad you didn't join the effigy Daniel! Thanks for the wonderful video!!

Hi Daniel I just received the email from the British pilgrimage Trust with you youtube series. I look forward to watching the rest of your pilgrimage series! Kate

We do not care if you look like a drowned Rat Daniel, the we are here for the content and your fantastic voice.

Much appreciated, ❤

Lovely Funeral Hatchments at 8.05. A funerary hatchment is a depiction within a black lozenge-shaped frame, generally on a black (sable) background, of a deceased's heraldic achievement, The funerary hatchment was usually placed over the entrance door of the deceased's residence at the level of the second floor, and remained in situ for six to twelve months, after which it was removed to the parish church. The practice developed in the early 17th century from the custom of carrying an heraldic shield before the coffin of the deceased, then leaving it for display in the church. Love the Reredos with rainbow. The symbolism comes from the story of Noah, in which the rainbow is a sign of God’s covenant of peace after the flood. In the vision of St John, Christ is seated upon a rainbow at the last Judgement. Many medieval churches were painted with representations of the Last Judgement called Dooms which feature Christ upon a rainbow. In England many still survive, notably those at Blyth , Nottinghamshire, Wenhaston, Suffolk and Marston Moreteyne, Bedfordshire. Milton in Paradise Lost, a great classic of English religious writing, describes Christ expelling Satan from Heaven while seated on a rainbow throne (PL VI, 759). In later Christian tradition the colours of the rainbow stand for the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit to the Church. Interestingly, the Babylonian Goddess Ishtar, whose necklace the rainbow was, swears by it that the she will not allow another flood such as that caused by Enlil. When she went to reclaim her lover from the underworld she had to leave it behind along with all the rest of her garments. In Viking myth the rainbow was the bridge between heaven and earth. However, as the two examples of the Rainbow are modern the use of a rainbow on memorials may have more to do with the song from the Wizard of Oz “Somewhere over the rainbow” by E. Y. Harburg.

This is a wonderful video Thank you for your efforts

dear sir, the nevilles were associated with both the beaufourts, via countess joan beaufourt of westmorland and the earl,,,the kingmaker who had estates across wales, including as Lord of Glamorgan.. the herberts of pembroke , somersets, mansells of margam'penrice, oxwich etc were all related as important gentry, aristocracy often many of their stewards ended up in burgundy, warwickshire, associated with the house of lancaster, beaufourt and york... and allied families.. @ the Little Knowledge podcast... the youtube channel

Really enjoyed this video!!

Quite hot! Maybe tight T-shirt weather soon?