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  • Nights in the Nave: A Champing Podcast

    1 season

    Step into the world of "Champing" - camping overnight in historic churches cared for by the Churches Conservation Trust. Join host Victoria Jenner as she invites a new guest to join her for a night in a different church each week.

  • Nights in the Nave: A Good Knight's Sleep

    Experience the unique concept of "champing" - camping overnight in historic churches - as we journey to a medieval church in the charming village of Aldwincle. Join host Victoria Jenner as she invites a new guest each week to spend the night within ancient walls, exploring the secrets and mysteri...

  • Nights in the Nave: Sleep like a Tudor

    Join Victoria Jenner on a journey to the past in our latest episode, as she uncovers the secrets of a rare church built during Queen Mary I's reign. With local charm and historical intrigue, we also delve into the fascinating world of sleep care practices in 16th-century Lancashire with special g...

  • Nights in the Nave: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

    Join host Victoria Jenner on an exciting journey to St Mary's in Edlesborough, a magnificent church nestled in the stunning Dunstable Downs countryside. Discover the allure of Victorian art and architecture, as Victoria visits a new exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum. But that's not all - get rea...

  • Nights in the Nave: An Arthurian Knight to Remember

    Join host Victoria Jenner on a mystical journey to St Cuthbert's Church in Holme Lacy, Herefordshire. Immerse yourself in the legends of King Arthur as you enter this enchanting church filled with ancient artifacts and grand monuments to his knights. Let the story of Archibald Lucas-Tooth, a fall...

  • Nights in the Nave: Searching for a Shadow Church

    Welcome to the penultimate episode of our gripping series, where host Victoria Jenner takes you on a journey through history. In this episode, we invite you to explore the forgotten village of Wolfhampcote, and its haunting church that has refused to die. Joined by renowned author Matthew Green, ...

  • Nights in the Nave: A Medieval Pilgrim's Tale

    Prepare for an epic and final journey as host Victoria Jenner embarks on her last sleepover adventure with renowned historian, Helen Carr. Together, they venture to the ancient All Saints church, perched atop a hill overlooking the murky River Parrett and the remnants of a long-lost Benedictine a...

  • England's Royal Churches

    From places of contemplation and refuge to symbolising national celebration, the CCT navigates the monarch’s connections with some beautiful churches that are no longer used for regular worship and reside with the Churches Conservation Trust.

  • The English Parish Church: An Introduction

    In this introduction to the English Parish Church, Alice Loxton travels across the country to uncover some gems of England’s heritage. From the whitewashing of the Reformation to Wesley’s hymns to William Morris’ efforts to preserve the past, there is lots to discover. And Alice is joined around ...

  • Cornwall's Maritime Churches

    1 season

    Cornwall, located in the far west of Great Britain on a peninsula tumbling into the vast Atlantic Ocean, bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the Channel, and to the east by the River Tamar.

    Victoria Jenner, a historian of decorative art and architecture, uses diffe...

  • The English Organ

    1 season

    As a title, The English Organ is unassuming. However, as we’ll discover, well-tailored restraint is one of the hallmarks of the English organ and its music. But there is nothing restrained about this series that sets out both to show and celebrate the arc and development of the English organ and ...

  • Medieval Death: Exploring Cadaver Tombs

    In the late middle ages a macabre funerary monument came into fashion in England; the Cadaver or Transi Tomb. These typically showed an emaciated dead or dying person lying naked on a burial shroud. Why were they created? Who made them? What did they symbolise? Come on a mini transi-trail with on...

  • Churchcrawls in Solitude

    1 season

    In September 2020 the Oxford University Professor of History, Diarmaid MacCulloch, sought sanctuary in his lifelong hobby ‘churchcrawling’. Over the course of this series, you’ll be taken on a journey around some of England’s beautiful and historic churches. Enjoy exploring the beauty of these sp...

  • Indigenous Textiles for the Catholic Church in Latin America

    The talk will explain how various textile types from the Pre-Columbian Americas were adapted to create Catholic church ornaments beginning in the sixteenth century. Examples will be drawn from each of the chapters of Dr. Stanfield-Mazzi’s new book, Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textil...

  • Naughty Things In Parish Churches

    Gazing at the inside or outside of an historic church, your eyes are likely to encounter strange beasts, frolicking figures and twisted foliage staring back at you from doorways, windows, friezes, corbel tables, roof bosses and stained glass – although plenty are just hidden enough to fool the ey...

  • Medieval Death: Exploring Cadaver Tombs

    1 season

    Follow Dr Christina Welch as she explores a unique form of medieval funerary monument, the Cadaver or Transi Tomb. These are stone or sometimes wooden figures in churches and cathedrals carved between four and five hundred years ago that typically show an extraordinary thin person, dead, or neari...