Golden Cap Pilgrimage Trail Part One. 1st Half Dozen Churches
The Golden Cap Pilgrimage Trail is a trip round the 12 Parish churches that form the Golden Cap team.
In this video I visit St Giles in Chideock, St Gabriels in Morcombelake, St Candida & Holy Cross in Whitchurch Canonicorum, St Stephen’s in Bettiscombe, St Mary’s in Marshwood and St John’s in Fishpond Bottom.
Goldencapteamofchurches.org.uk has a bit of history on each of the twelve churches as well as a page about the Pilgrimage Trail.
In this video I briefly touched on the story of the screaming skull of Bettiscombe. Here’s some info on the story of the screaming skull that I’ve copied from Wikipedia:-
Bettiscombe Manor, a manor house in the village, is known as "The House of the Screaming skull" due to a legend dating from the 19th century. Other ghost stories are also associated with the manor. The legend maintains that the skull is that of a Jamaican slave belonging to John Frederick Pinney.
Azariah Pinney's descendants disposed of their Nevis estates and returned to the family home of Bettiscombe Manor in 1830, accompanied by one of the family's black slaves. While in his master's service, the servant was taken seriously ill with suspected tuberculosis. As he lay dying, the servant swore that he would never rest unless his body was returned to his homeland of Nevis, but when he died, John Frederick Pinney refused to pay for such an expensive burial and instead had the body interred in the grounds of St. Stephen's Church cemetery. After the burial, ill fortune plagued the village for many months and screams and crying were heard coming from the cemetery. Other disturbances were reported from the manor house, such as windows rattling and doors slamming of their own accord. The villagers went to the manor to seek advice. The body of the servant was exhumed and the body taken to the manor house. In the process of time the skeleton has long since vanished, except for the skull where it has remained in the house for centuries.
In 1963 a professor of human and comparative anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons stated that the skull was not that of a black man but that of a European female aged between twenty-five and thirty.
Two things I forgot to mention in the video when I was at St Mary’s, Marshwood. The husband of the church warden was (Possibly still is.) the Father at the parish of St Gwenn, Wessex, the only Celtic Orthodox parish in the UK.
The village pub (Starting life in 1585.) was named the ‘Bottle Inn’ in the late 18th century as it was the first inn in the area to sell bottled beer. It’s also home to an annual nettle eating competition where participants have an hour in which to eat as many nettle leaves as they can.
#GoldenCap #Pilgrimage #GoldenCapPilgrimageTrail #CathedraloftheVale #ShrineofStWhite
Видео Golden Cap Pilgrimage Trail Part One. 1st Half Dozen Churches канала Westcountry Explorer
In this video I visit St Giles in Chideock, St Gabriels in Morcombelake, St Candida & Holy Cross in Whitchurch Canonicorum, St Stephen’s in Bettiscombe, St Mary’s in Marshwood and St John’s in Fishpond Bottom.
Goldencapteamofchurches.org.uk has a bit of history on each of the twelve churches as well as a page about the Pilgrimage Trail.
In this video I briefly touched on the story of the screaming skull of Bettiscombe. Here’s some info on the story of the screaming skull that I’ve copied from Wikipedia:-
Bettiscombe Manor, a manor house in the village, is known as "The House of the Screaming skull" due to a legend dating from the 19th century. Other ghost stories are also associated with the manor. The legend maintains that the skull is that of a Jamaican slave belonging to John Frederick Pinney.
Azariah Pinney's descendants disposed of their Nevis estates and returned to the family home of Bettiscombe Manor in 1830, accompanied by one of the family's black slaves. While in his master's service, the servant was taken seriously ill with suspected tuberculosis. As he lay dying, the servant swore that he would never rest unless his body was returned to his homeland of Nevis, but when he died, John Frederick Pinney refused to pay for such an expensive burial and instead had the body interred in the grounds of St. Stephen's Church cemetery. After the burial, ill fortune plagued the village for many months and screams and crying were heard coming from the cemetery. Other disturbances were reported from the manor house, such as windows rattling and doors slamming of their own accord. The villagers went to the manor to seek advice. The body of the servant was exhumed and the body taken to the manor house. In the process of time the skeleton has long since vanished, except for the skull where it has remained in the house for centuries.
In 1963 a professor of human and comparative anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons stated that the skull was not that of a black man but that of a European female aged between twenty-five and thirty.
Two things I forgot to mention in the video when I was at St Mary’s, Marshwood. The husband of the church warden was (Possibly still is.) the Father at the parish of St Gwenn, Wessex, the only Celtic Orthodox parish in the UK.
The village pub (Starting life in 1585.) was named the ‘Bottle Inn’ in the late 18th century as it was the first inn in the area to sell bottled beer. It’s also home to an annual nettle eating competition where participants have an hour in which to eat as many nettle leaves as they can.
#GoldenCap #Pilgrimage #GoldenCapPilgrimageTrail #CathedraloftheVale #ShrineofStWhite
Видео Golden Cap Pilgrimage Trail Part One. 1st Half Dozen Churches канала Westcountry Explorer
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