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St Walstan - Norfolk's Royal Labourer

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#Medieval saint

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#St Walstan

#Bawburgh Norfolk

#medieval shrine

#relics

#hagiography

#medieval church

#medieval architecture

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#English saint

#Norfolk history

The round tower church near Norwich was once a place of pilgrimage and housed the shrine of St Walstan, a little-known saint, whose relics rested in a fifteenth-century shrine chapel attached to the nave of the church. This video explores the story of St Walstan, who he was, the documentary sources for his life and his saintly cult, as well as the architectural evidence of this place. Walstan is a rather shadowy figure and this exploration throws up more questions than it answers. THE ANTIQUA

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[Music] barbara is a tiny village with less than 500 inhabitants situated five miles west of the city of norwich its medieval round tower church lies on the western edge of the village on high ground overlooking the valley of the river yeah the church is dedicated to saint mary and saint walston and it isn't wallston who many believe to have been a local norfolk saint that i want to talk about in this video we know that in the century before the english reformation british edge contained the tomb of wolston and that it was seemingly a place of pilgrimage although the shrine was swept away at the reformation the architectural scars of it are still very much evident in the building the navy of the church is eyeless but in the north wall close to the chancellor arch there is a blocked archway that led to a now demolished structure to the north knave and the arch state from the second half of the 15th century and so it would seem did the vanished structure for