WEBVTT 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:28.900 Thank you Lydia, for a fascinating talk 00:46:49.000 --> 00:46:49.900 Am I right to think that Colchester Town station was originally called St Botolph's? 00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:54.900 Michael Sewell: not St Botolph's but the Colchester castle ruins were the location for the 1909 Colchester Historical Pageant which concludes with a scene depicting the siege https://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1036/ 00:49:18.000 --> 00:49:18.900 To Michael Roth: were there any pious texts on the foundation stones, such us, prayer, request, laudation? 00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:22.900 My question for Lydia is whether there is evidence of civil war damage in south-west churches or of glass being rearrranged after damage 00:53:51.000 --> 00:53:51.900 Michael Roth: building on Beat's question, you mentioned that local communities were entreated to remember the foundation stones. I was thinking of prospective memory here. How did memory work in this context? Were there any formal rituals, ceremonies designed to purposefully remember the stones and the artefacts held with them? 00:53:54.000 --> 00:53:54.900 A Colchester question (not for answering now): did Colchester's status in the 19thC as an important garrison town affect local attitudes to destruction caused by soldiers? 00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:08.900 Thanks Lydia. I'm esp. interested in attitudes to the pre-Conquest sculpture which came to light during rebuilding campaigns. 00:56:03.000 --> 00:56:03.900 Responding to Ann Hughes' comment - there is much complaint in loyalist memories about destruction of the trees on the glebe by interregnum incumbents. 00:56:28.000 --> 00:56:28.900 Re: civil war and glass, there is ofcourse the famous example of Fairfax ordering the protection of stained glass at York Minster after the siege of the city. These actions saved the majority for us today 00:57:22.000 --> 00:57:22.900 f course soldiers who wanted to destroy stained glass would not have had to pay for its replacement 00:58:09.000 --> 00:58:09.900 Michael Sewell: Cromwell as the destroyer is popular in East Anglian folklore. I had a similar question to one asked earlier about ownership. Priories were often privileged places of sanctuary - operating outside the jurisdiction of the town authorities. Is this the case in Colchester? 00:58:11.000 --> 00:58:11.900 Responding to Andy - yes it is astonishing how much survives in all the York churches compared to the meagre amounts elsewhere. 00:58:14.000 --> 00:58:14.900 Thank you everyone! There is also evidence that the famous windows at St Neots in Cornwall were whitewashed to protect them from Civil War destruction 00:58:43.000 --> 00:58:43.900 Also, on destruction of stained glass, there is much more evidence for the destruction of stained glass in Wales during the Civil War than during the sixteenth century. thanks Lydia! 00:58:47.000 --> 00:58:47.900 Lydia - ooh ...do you have a reference for that? I'm really interested in these kinds of decisions. 00:59:59.000 --> 00:59:59.900 Martin that does not surprise me given Wales was considered one of the 'dark corners of the land' but according to royalist accounts had very aggressive and active Godly clergy and sequestrators!