Norfolk Explorations - The Ruined Church of All Saints, Billockby.

Kevin Hall and I are exploring Norfolk and the Broads. We have taken a trip to near Billockby to look at a ruined church, All Saints, that was struck by lightning in 1762 and has remained in a state of ruin. A chancel building was later added in which the font, pews and other church furnishings have been kept since the tragedy.
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[@KevinsRambles]

To find that on our travels was amazing but also a very sad find :-(

[@RichardVobes]

Lovely old ruin.

[@lindakane7771]

@@RichardVobes who you calling a lovely old ruin! 🙂

[@MrNas42]

What an adventure! Great exploring. The postscript added so much more to the video.

[@RichardVobes]

It was great to find out the stuff after we had looked at the place.

[@andyfrearson2299]

That church was an amazing find Richard, unbelievable to think it was struck by lightning all those years ago and just left as a ruin. Really interesting.

[@RichardVobes]

Yes we were thrilled to have some thing different to talk about about and explore.

[@ramibu239]

Those windows were amazing!😍 Love!!!💗 Wow that must've been one mighty big bolt of lightning to do such damage! Amazing they have been able to keep the rest of it intact for all these many more years!

[@ramibu239]

Btw...yes! Watch out for those stinging nettles! Especially in shorts! We have them around some of our rivers here & they will welt up your legs something bad!!!

[@RichardVobes]

I assume that the lightning cause the main damage to the structure and over time, from 1762, it probably crumbled more and more.

[@RichardVobes]

I am always getting stung. :)

[@hsbcgeoff]

@@RichardVobes carry some Anthisan Cream in your pocket. It's brilliant for stings and bites.

[@vivienneedwards8432]

Very interesting video, Richard. I love old churches and ruins

[@RichardVobes]

All good fun, eh?

[@Red_____________]

Lovely walk 👍🏻

[@RichardVobes]

Cheers.

[@deanmc178]

a fabulous little bit of history there ,,

[@RichardVobes]

We enjoyed exploring it very much. Thanks Dean.

[@AbelArt]

Great video, very interesting church, I hope they fix it up and stop the rest from getting ruined by Ivy!

[@RichardVobes]

I hope so too.

[@WestcountryYokelOnYoutube]

Wow what a fascinating place.

[@RichardVobes]

Sure is! :)

[@jmeyer3rn]

So sad. What a beautiful, sad bittersweet place. Thank you for the video. Would be amazing bit of research. Stunning. St Francis pray for us.

[@jmeyer3rn]

Looks like an earthquake.

[@RichardVobes]

A lovely place to explore.

[@cuddlessheep9136]

The holes are 'put-log' holes. Where the builders fitted the timber scaffolding during the construction of the tower. They would have been filled in once the tower was built. But over time the filling often falls out.

[@georgetimperley8906]

Wow that's it amazing, yet quite sad. It is so surprising it has survived all that time! I wonder if it will ever be put back how it was, but with a lightning conductor! It would be interesting. Well done great video 👍

[@RichardVobes]

It is surprising, it must have been built very strongly to start with.

[@djmossssomjd8496]

Ok that threw me...Bullockby?. It's Billockby! Great old building though. :-)

[@RichardVobes]

Yes, I made a stupid spelling error.

[@georginacox3909]

Gosh. Lightning.And usage. Your other churches.

[@jotruby7707]

Found this info Richard - A medieval parish church, dating mainly to the 15th century. The church is now mostly in ruins after the roof of the nave collapsed during a storm in 1762. The chancel is still is use, and was restored in the late 19th century.

[@RichardVobes]

That sounds about right - what an interesting story.

[@MrGreatplum]

Very evocative church - I wonder how many churches were in this sort of state before the victorians ‘restored’ them. Interesting that the porch has also been restored, I expect it’s only used for a store.

[@RichardVobes]

True - pleased that the Victorians did restore them, but it is nice also to see a ruin from time to time for it fires the imagination.

[@mickyjb2003]

Very interesting vlog, I am interested to know why the damage occurred.

[@RichardVobes]

Yes me too!

[@lindakane7771]

Very fascinating, there's something about ruins! I'm assuming they don't use the chancel for services now?

[@RichardVobes]

They would be cramped in there if they did!

[@MrGreatplum]

Linda Kane - I found the website of the south trinity broads parish and there’s a monthly service there between April and October!

[@alexandratitley3232]

Totally unrelated to this video but I knew you’d love to hear it. You may remember I told you on an earlier video that we’d decided to home educate our daughter Grace (who adores your Shrewsbury videos). Anyway so I said to her today “Grace you have worked so hard this week, you get to chose what we do tomorrow”. She said ‘I want a ‘look up day’ I said “a look up day?” Grace “yeah Richard Vobes said on one of his videos that you have to look up too really see the buildings. So I want a look up day in town (Shrewsbury). We could take artsy photos” So, tomorrow is a richard Vobes “look up day”. 😂

[@RichardVobes]

Oh wow! Have a great look up day and enjoy the buildings above the hoardings! Love it. Say hello to Grace from me!

[@docdisco42]

Fascinating video as always. I just a question, which may be a stupid question, really: what is the "three word location"? it looks like some sort of link but I can't figure out what it exactly is. i.e. In this video it was ///join.surpassed.engulfing

[@RichardVobes]

Type those three words into here: what3words.com and you will have a location pinpointed in the video.

[@Andyb2379]

Wow that’s madness - sone lighting strike to bring that down. I guess God was having an off day to blow his own house up

[@RichardVobes]

It makes you wonder what the folk thought about it back in 1762!

[@diddyreason]

Wow. What a fascinating find. The year of 1762 for the lightning strike is interesting. That was the same year, for the first time, lightning conductors were started to be fitted to ships due to severe storm damage at sea, one being Captain Cooks Endeavour. It sort of brings the year of the church into more significance. Another excellent movie of a church I had no idea existed. Great work again guys.

[@RichardVobes]

Clearly they were just too late to fit the lightning conductor to this church! Cheers Tony, I didn't know they fitted them to ship masts.

[@claire76leach]

So that Hewitt bloke that was buried there was buried after the church had been destroyed then. Interesting fact Richard.

[@RichardVobes]

It seems so. As were others I assume.

[@hazelb7218]

such a shame :-(

[@RichardVobes]

It sure is.

[@danielsedgwick5476]

I wonder what happened?

[@RichardVobes]

It was struck by lightning - I revealed the truth at the end.

[@danielsedgwick5476]

Sorry, missed that bit :)

[@deanmc178]

bullokby ?? does that mean cows live there ???

[@RichardVobes]

I do not know from where the name originates actually.