York Minster
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Nov 4, 2026
Marilyn R. PukkilaHOST
I have to say, though, the mechanism for ringing also looked highly Numenorean, i.e. very advanced, because I have rung bells.
Marilyn R. PukkilaHOST
I rang a small bell in a small Methodist church, and I once had the privilege and delight of ringing Great Peter in York Minster on my birthday.
Sara BrownHOST
Oh, goodness.
Sara BrownHOST
How wonderful.
MichelleHOST
For many centuries, mistletoe was rarely brought into the Christian churches.
MichelleHOST
However, it did become a Christmas custom at York Cathedral in Old England.
MichelleHOST
On Christmas Eve, the church was decorated with greenery and mistletoe was laid on the altars, symbolizing the advent of the Messiah, the Great Healer, a message that harked back to the Druidic belief that mistletoe had healing powers.
MichelleHOST
The historian Stukely saw in this ritual the surviving customs of the Druids, something that seemed to have passed over the heads of the priests, who decided such decorations on the high altar would be a good thing to do.
MichelleHOST
Innumerable are the relics of these instruments found all over the British Isles.
MichelleHOST
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MichelleHOST
As part of this ceremony of York Cathedral, once the mistletoe had been set upon the high altar, pardon and freedom, public and universal liberty were proclaimed at the gates of the town.
MichelleHOST
Heralds blew the trumpets.
Dave PadomaleVOICE_ACTOR
particularly English history.
Ernest ChappellNARRATOR
We could see the powers of York Minster from our drill ground, and...
Ernest ChappellNARRATOR
But I wish you could meet Edward Mullen.
Dave PadomaleVOICE_ACTOR
Aye, lad.
Sarah PowellHOST
The result is an unusual mixture of history, fiction and haunting.
Sarah PowellHOST
York has its own connection to Bonfire Night, because Guy Fawkes was born there in 1570 and baptised at St Michael le Belfry, close to York Minster.
Sarah PowellHOST
The building now known as the Guy Fawkes Inn stands on the site, traditionally identified as his birthplace.
Sarah PowellHOST
The inn still makes a point of that connection.
AliceHOST
What can I say? He's a friendly guy.
AliceHOST
In the heart of York, just a stone's throw away from the magnificent York Minster, stands an old pub with a rather sinister claim to fame, the Guy Fawkes Inn.
AliceHOST
With its crooked timber beams, ancient looking rooms and centuries of history, it's the sort of place you could almost imagine the walls whispering secrets from the past.
AliceHOST
And according to tradition, this was the birthplace of one of England's most infamous men, Guy Fawkes.
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the pitch because Grimsby Town have caused one of the biggest upsets in their history.
YungiHOST
York came into town for the first time since 2012 and left with their tails between their legs as them delicious mariners put five past the Minster men.
YungiHOST
This morning, York Minster was packed full of locals praying to baby Jesus so they could watch football as sexy as that on a weekly basis.
YungiHOST
And the baby Jesus replied, no. You've got a half a million pound townhouse and a local economy that's booming.
YungiHOST
So you can't have it all.
Gretel le MaîtreHOST
And now we're going to continue with William Hunt's history of the English church.
Gretel le MaîtreHOST
A tiny bit of overlap because we had started a paragraph talking about York Cathedral and I've just re-read it and I think I'll have to start at the beginning.
Gretel le MaîtreHOST
Now he does pronounce his spell, I think I've said this before, like Edwin as Edwine and so I'm going to have to try and just say Edwin I think to make it easier.
Gretel le MaîtreHOST
But just so you know, that is how it was spelt and how William Hunt spelt it.
Rebecca LarsonHOST
Yeah.
Rebecca LarsonHOST
The second one was in York and he did it in the ashes of York Minster, if I recall correctly on that one too.
Rebecca LarsonHOST
Yeah.
Rebecca LarsonHOST
I definitely think that would have been an experience, either or, but definitely being, because it was Westminster, wasn't it, that he had this coordination? Yeah.
Fiona DraneGUEST
They were giving them skills.
Fiona DraneGUEST
And this young boy said to me, he said, oh, we went to York Minster and people at York Minster said that the skills that we're getting could mean that we could work in the likes of York Minster or Notre Dame.
Fiona DraneGUEST
And I just thought that was incredible from this small place.
Fiona DraneGUEST
So, yes, Quitthorne is a fantastic place to go and visit, but actually it's been made so because actually it's a fantastic place to live.
Calvin RobinsonHOST
The masons who raised the cathedrals worked from a lodge, a workshop, where they cut stone, kept their tools, and took their meals.
Calvin RobinsonHOST
And at York Minster, written rules governed their hours in the lodge, as early as 1370.
Calvin RobinsonHOST
The most skilled carved freestone fine stone for ornament and the freestone mason is the usual explanation of the word freemason these were catholic craftsmen through and through their oldest surviving text a middle english poem known as regius manuscript written in the first half of the 15th century honors the four crowned martyrs the patron saints of masons and teaches its readers how to behave in church And in the old charges read to working masons for generations afterwards, the first duty was always the same, that you be true to God and Holy Church and use no error or heresy.
Calvin RobinsonHOST
The same manuscripts wrapped the trade in legend, tracing it back to Euclid, and to a great assembly of masons under the Saxon king, Athelstan.
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