Sorry for my inflection on chorale! I have never said or heard that word in my life (I am not musically-inclined) and said it the way I say it in my head. Not TOO wrong, but I can feel people’s irritation already 😂
😀 it is an unusual word... you have to love the oddities of words and how two similar words can be said so differently and mean two totally different things.
I am editing some stuff right now! 😉 I’ve had an AWFUL January but have emerged into Spring bright-eyed and bushy tailed, ready to produce top-tier content 🐿️
Also fun fact the houses are smaller at one end than the other. The gate end the houses are bigger, so the road looks longer and the building at the end looks bigger.
@@kazudv1071 Yep! The guy at the end wanted his house to look super big and fancy, so they used fake perspective to make the house at the end seem bigger and the road seem longer. It's a real life optical illusion that's subtle enough to get away with it. Wells is home to the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and so the whole place has multiple fancy constructs and buildings built with the wealth of two Bishop dioceses. Wells Cathedral also has a giang gothic X in the middle of the nave cuz it needed support after subsidence, and the result looks super cool and honestly super modern, even though it was added in the Middle Ages
I'm fortunate as a non-Brit to have visited Wells and this street about 4 times over several decades. Stunning and takes your breath away a bit. I really was born in the wrong country.
In Pittsburgh, PA we had many cobblestone streets when I was young. They were wonderful in ice, snow. The cars wouldn't slide on the cobblestone streets. All my schools had them surrounding so parents could drop their children off safely.
I think what makes it fascinating is that they're terraced houses with the chimneys on the front wall, rather than shared via the adjoining wall, with back to back fireplaces. So instead of the chimney exiting via the ridge of the roof, which are ten a penny, they extend from the lowest part of the roof line. Due to the stacks needing the hight with which to create 'draw force' for the fires, it produces an aesthetic which, firstly, is not often seen, and secondly, is absolutely gorgeous to observe, especially with the architectural design.
Beautiful! My fiancé and I are planning on getting married in Ireland next year and then going around the British isles/Europe for our honeymoon. I love your videos but I was wondering if you have any recommendations for more long form history docs so I can study up beforehand? Love from Indiana, USA ♥️
Over 20 years ago, I was lucky enough to walk down that street on a visit. Until now, I had no idea it was so historically significant. I just thought it was a cool street! :)
Love that road, I adore old stone and moss so that really works for me. So very cool that it still fulfils its original purpose too. this one really brought a smile, thank you.
What's even MORE amazing..... for those who can see the comparison.... is that it is MUCH BETTER PAVED for a FIFTEENTH Century European street than the OLDEST road in Arlington VIRGINIA, USA, which is made of roughshod COBBLESTONE laid by Hessian soldiers in the EIGTHEENTH Century. Apparently the "Krauts" wanted to INconvenience their American colonial enemies. Didn't try it, but looked like one of the ROUGHEST roads to walk OR ride on!!
Love the road. Reminds me of my childhood and my mother and me on the old streets of Louisville. When the city decided to pave over the rock, she dug up a few to take home. They were on our steps until she passed
@@yeetjones927 southwestern United States. One and a half hours from the border with Mexico. It's a beautiful green desert at the base of 2 mountain ranges. That's Tucson. Arizona itself is a border state
There’s a reason Great Britain got its name and it doesn’t take much to look at a history book or take a walk and find that out, it’s a shame this day and age it’s common to just talk your country down as though it’s all bad and all evil and never did anything good and we should all just let others take over because we aren’t good but as we see that’s clearly not the case when parts of brains in aren’t that great anymore and we know why
I live in a new build so i understand that British architecture and housing design is basically dead, seeing videos like this genuinely make me sad at how we thought that the stuff we have today is good enough. This street is beautiful, but i wish we had a city where most houses are like this, similar to prague. Old European houses, are so charming with their own national and cultural twists.
You are so right. I moved away from London thirty years ago, we lived in Chiswick. We live about ten miles away from where this video is filmed now, in a house that was built in the 18th century. It was the best decision we ever made. Greetings from Somerset. 😊
Brings back many happy memories of visiting there as a child and youngster with my parents Loved the cathedral and surrounding areas, they had such a calmness and gentleness, especially inside the cathedral. The author Elizabeth Goudge was resident in this area as her father was in charge of the cathedral. Makes it special to me as her novel "Linnets and Valarians" was the first book I was given instead of an Easter egg by my dad and I literally devoured it, still have the very tatty, disreputable and much loved book, will never part with it (he specifically chose it for me)
There is nothing wrong with the word chorale. We would use the word choir nowadays, but chorale is still in use. This street is exquisite. It is wonderful to see it not only preserved but used as people's homes
It’s really very beautiful. It’s good to know that there are some truly fantastic places in this country, not just post-industrial landscapes dotted with brutalist blocks, hideous identical new builds and cheap, dilapidated flats. The nature is incredible but the old cities still have plenty to offer.
12 of them. And priests and friars often visited each others churches, and bishops would often visit as well. And seminarians. So it's for roughly 18 people as well as plenty of space for visitors
Just want to point out...Catholic...not Anglican. Though I'm sure it was taken over by Anglicans now. Hopefully it'll come back to the church now that the Anglican church is collapsing.
If only those who live and sing there, would speak out against what the hell is being tort in the "church of England"selling the Qur'an in st Martin's in the feald, queerly beloved, thing gay and beautiful bill board's at the door,gay pride flag from the bell towers.The great falling away.
Sorry for my inflection on chorale! I have never said or heard that word in my life (I am not musically-inclined) and said it the way I say it in my head. Not TOO wrong, but I can feel people’s irritation already 😂
😀 it is an unusual word... you have to love the oddities of words and how two similar words can be said so differently and mean two totally different things.
So glad you're back🎉
I assumed it was just a difference in pronunciation between American and UK English. lol
Corral not chorale. Two different meanings.
You went all American on us for a second !!!
I used to walk down this street every day after school, its fucking beautiful
My parents lived near Wells and often met friends there. It's so lovely, not just this close but the whole centre.
My late father lived in the street when he was a student at Wells Theological College in the early 1960s
How did he describe it?
Drives me mad insane wild to take in scenes like this where there is so much human history especially unchanged. 650 years…mind blowing!
I'd love to be a lay clerk at Wells. Singing in the cathedral and living there would feel like a fever dream
I’d also love that - unfortunately, it looks like it’s all men 😢
I read that first sentence wrong and had to do a double take.
I re read it and went 'Oh.'
No luck catching them swans then?
One hissed at me 🥹
It's just the one actually
You're off the chain!
😂
Read this in the accent
Absolutely beautiful
She is! 😂
This is the first time I’ve seen someone talk about places near where I live!and it IS beautiful!!
Post more (including long format!) 🙏 We've missed you over the last few weeks!
I am editing some stuff right now! 😉 I’ve had an AWFUL January but have emerged into Spring bright-eyed and bushy tailed, ready to produce top-tier content 🐿️
@lady_of_the_mercians Hope everything's better now! Looking forward to more content 😊
@lady_of_the_mercians you have a Tardis as its still February here in Warwickshire 😂
My home town❤ England's smallest City. Hot Fuzz was filmed here too👍
Wells is a beautiful small city packed with history
Also fun fact the houses are smaller at one end than the other. The gate end the houses are bigger, so the road looks longer and the building at the end looks bigger.
Was this deliberate?
@@kazudv1071 Yep! The guy at the end wanted his house to look super big and fancy, so they used fake perspective to make the house at the end seem bigger and the road seem longer. It's a real life optical illusion that's subtle enough to get away with it.
Wells is home to the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and so the whole place has multiple fancy constructs and buildings built with the wealth of two Bishop dioceses.
Wells Cathedral also has a giang gothic X in the middle of the nave cuz it needed support after subsidence, and the result looks super cool and honestly super modern, even though it was added in the Middle Ages
@@Willothemask oh wow that's really neat. Thanks for sharing mate!
@@kazudv1071 Hapy to! I lived around there so I know it fairly well, and history is cool!
Also most of the film Hot Fuzz was filmed in Wells
So beautiful. The UK is an amazing country, I love to visit and enjoy its history, literature and intelligent people.
I'm fortunate as a non-Brit to have visited Wells and this street about 4 times over several decades. Stunning and takes your breath away a bit. I really was born in the wrong country.
Why would you go back 4 times??
As a wells resident I have to ask, why? It’s a fairly boring road. I casually down it most days without second thought
@@SouthsMemesLiving in mindlessness is not something to envy.
@@LUIS-ox1bv man wtf are you on about. It’s like you googled “philosophy” and picked the first phrase you found
I love that street, really takes you back in time
I was there not long ago. Beautiful city!
Wells is my nearest city. Love it there! Though the cobbles are problematic for my wheelchair. So glad they paced the main street in modern slabs
In Pittsburgh, PA we had many cobblestone streets when I was young. They were wonderful in ice, snow.
The cars wouldn't slide on the cobblestone streets. All my schools had them surrounding so parents could drop their children off safely.
i went to visit wells ages ago (as one of my favourite movies was filmed there) and i loved it! one of the most pretty places I’ve gone to
How wonderful..what an absolute gem... I'd love to go see it..or even live there if it were possible...it looks so pristine...😯
Become a professional singer and you may have a chance (not sure if they accept women though 😢)
@@lady_of_the_mercians well that's never going to happen...but we can dream 🤗
Have to be quick mate 50 years this village will be housing 💩 faces 😢
Cool! So beautiful and fascinating. I often think of ghosts with such old places too.
Beautiful.
Our Catholic heritage.
Fascinating place! 😦
Big up wells tennis club! Absolutely fire there ❤
so cool thanks for sharing
Yes Wells Cathedral....my favourite. I always pop in there and light a candle 🕯️ before going to Glastonbury ❤
Just beautiful and well preserved..LOVE your musical chorals
Thank you for the video.
Beautifully articulate
I always find myself drawn to remaims of medieval era.
I've heard of these houses with fireplaces on the outside walls but actually seeing a whole street of them. WOW!
I think what makes it fascinating is that they're terraced houses with the chimneys on the front wall, rather than shared via the adjoining wall, with back to back fireplaces.
So instead of the chimney exiting via the ridge of the roof, which are ten a penny, they extend from the lowest part of the roof line.
Due to the stacks needing the hight with which to create 'draw force' for the fires, it produces an aesthetic which, firstly, is not often seen, and secondly, is absolutely gorgeous to observe, especially with the architectural design.
@@deeayenn That pretty well sums it up. 👍👍👍
Been there!
We visited wells cathedral in 2015.. that double arch in the cathedral is awesome..and yes that street is pretty cool.
Beautiful! My fiancé and I are planning on getting married in Ireland next year and then going around the British isles/Europe for our honeymoon. I love your videos but I was wondering if you have any recommendations for more long form history docs so I can study up beforehand? Love from Indiana, USA ♥️
I really enjoyed Dan Jones’ castle documentaries. Think they’re on Netflix 😊
@@lady_of_the_mercians amazing! Thank you so much, I’ll be sure to check those out asap 🥰
Don't get married it's a trap..
Over 20 years ago, I was lucky enough to walk down that street on a visit. Until now, I had no idea it was so historically significant. I just thought it was a cool street! :)
That is a beautiful street
Love that road, I adore old stone and moss so that really works for me. So very cool that it still fulfils its original purpose too. this one really brought a smile, thank you.
Still Beautiful! What lucky men!
Beautiful!
What's even MORE amazing..... for those who can see the comparison.... is that it is MUCH BETTER PAVED for a FIFTEENTH Century European street than the OLDEST road in Arlington VIRGINIA, USA, which is made of roughshod COBBLESTONE laid by Hessian soldiers in the EIGTHEENTH Century. Apparently the "Krauts" wanted to INconvenience their American colonial enemies.
Didn't try it, but looked like one of the ROUGHEST roads to walk OR ride on!!
Incredible, thank you! ♥
Love the road.
Reminds me of my childhood and my mother and me on the old streets of Louisville. When the city decided to pave over the rock, she dug up a few to take home. They were on our steps until she passed
I love your content, keep it up!
❤ from Tucson Arizona
Thank you! (You’re probably bored of this meme, but What We Do in the Shadows has definitely changed the way I interpret that city name 😂)
@@lady_of_the_mercians that never gets old! 🤣
@@jonathancady3018wheres Arizona?
@@yeetjones927 southwestern United States. One and a half hours from the border with Mexico. It's a beautiful green desert at the base of 2 mountain ranges. That's Tucson. Arizona itself is a border state
Beautiful
There’s a reason Great Britain got its name and it doesn’t take much to look at a history book or take a walk and find that out, it’s a shame this day and age it’s common to just talk your country down as though it’s all bad and all evil and never did anything good and we should all just let others take over because we aren’t good but as we see that’s clearly not the case when parts of brains in aren’t that great anymore and we know why
Oh my. That is fascinating
Amazing.
How w beautiful!
I live in a new build so i understand that British architecture and housing design is basically dead, seeing videos like this genuinely make me sad at how we thought that the stuff we have today is good enough. This street is beautiful, but i wish we had a city where most houses are like this, similar to prague. Old European houses, are so charming with their own national and cultural twists.
You are so right. I moved away from London thirty years ago, we lived in Chiswick. We live about ten miles away from where this video is filmed now, in a house that was built in the 18th century.
It was the best decision we ever made.
Greetings from Somerset. 😊
Brings back many happy memories of visiting there as a child and youngster with my parents
Loved the cathedral and surrounding areas, they had such a calmness and gentleness, especially inside the cathedral.
The author Elizabeth Goudge was resident in this area as her father was in charge of the cathedral. Makes it special to me as her novel "Linnets and Valarians" was the first book I was given instead of an Easter egg by my dad and I literally devoured it, still have the very tatty, disreputable and much loved book, will never part with it (he specifically chose it for me)
Oooh I’ll have to give it a read if I see it, sounds like the sort of book I love
I love this. Now it's time to view all your uploads. Subscribed.
I hope you enjoy! (More to come 😉)
There is nothing wrong with the word chorale. We would use the word choir nowadays, but chorale is still in use. This street is exquisite. It is wonderful to see it not only preserved but used as people's homes
I live in wells ❤
How come Henry 8 didn’t destroy this fabulous street ? Or did he just throw out the catholics ?
It's prime real estate.
Henry evicted the Catholics and gave to property to his friends and supporters.
Very cool!
Love the clips Lady :)
❤❤❤
I should visit Wells
Yo the dude who paved the street must have beat so many dungeons
I saw a similar video by another woman. She provide a o review map of the area. That’s all that’s missing in this clip.
Wells where they filmed Hot fuzz , great comedy if you haven't seen it.
I went to a house party in one of those houses once kinda mad
I live in Wells :)
So do I
I love Wells.
Nice place
Wish I lived there 😅
to me, entering it just feels like walking the kids home from school. Yes the residents do have plumming
It’s really very beautiful. It’s good to know that there are some truly fantastic places in this country, not just post-industrial landscapes dotted with brutalist blocks, hideous identical new builds and cheap, dilapidated flats.
The nature is incredible but the old cities still have plenty to offer.
Oh I must go there, thanks.
Terraced houses, 14th century style!
So... no Internet or satellite TV for the 12 men of the chorale?
I like this
😊😊😊
Wells best city
Smallest city, best city 💪
Ive been there
Very cool. You do make interesting and informative content. Thanks ☺️
Thank you for watching!
You are just lovely
Could I paint the house bright yellow if I lived there? I'm guessing not?
Absolutely not 😂 most grade 1 listed buildings and yellow do not mix
@lady_of_the_mercians I thought as much.
If people have lived there for 650 years then how old are they now? And what is their diet?
Was this before or after the battle and Helm's Deep?
does it have a pub?
im not religious but if i had access to a private chapel you know id be going in there to just vibe
Are you from Bristol
Wells next the Sea?
Beautiful but what’s the name of this street?
Vicars’ Close.
There she is
Returned from my mysterious absence 😅
Well, not the same people 😁 that would be incredible 😉
A _street_ built to house a priest?
{:o:O:}
12 of them. And priests and friars often visited each others churches, and bishops would often visit as well. And seminarians. So it's for roughly 18 people as well as plenty of space for visitors
How cool that Jesus will be back soon !
Where's he been?
@@jacobreisser8034 What a question.
Who lives in these houses how much rent do they pay😅
Why are we whispering...?
Just want to point out...Catholic...not Anglican. Though I'm sure it was taken over by Anglicans now. Hopefully it'll come back to the church now that the Anglican church is collapsing.
haunted?
Why are you talking like this into the mic.
What is a "close"?
A Cathedral Close is the land around a cathedral, often lots of green space and accommodation for the various people needed for the services.
"Close" liked closed, they were often walled and gated. All of the land being owned by the Church.
Jeeez it’s British it’ll full of old history love. 10th century bath house you piss against on your way home from the pub!
Some of us find joy in the specifics 😊
Wow🎉🎉🎉🎉
You are one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen in my entire life
If only those who live and sing there, would speak out against what the hell is being tort in the "church of England"selling the Qur'an in st Martin's in the feald, queerly beloved, thing gay and beautiful bill board's at the door,gay pride flag from the bell towers.The great falling away.
This sentence was typed out by a conservative dribbling on their Ipad I can tell that much
Hogwarts?
Why dont you ever say specifically where you are? Whats the name of the street? How do I get there in Wells? Give coordinates
It is called “Vicars’ Close” in the city of Wells, Somerset, England.
@@tamaracarter1836 ok thank you. Its like its a bloody secret or something
They literally have the street name in the description...
@@edwardharris2388 yeah its been added since I commented