Caring for the Coronation Chair at Westminster Abbey

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The Coronation Chair has taken centre stage during coronation ceremonies at Westminster Abbey since 1308. It is one of the most precious and famous pieces of furniture in the world.
Watch Conservator Krista Blessley talk about the history of the Chair, the damage it has sustained and how it is cared for before it is used again for the first time in almost 70 years.
More about the Coronation Chair: www.westminster-abbey.org/abo...
Coronations at the Abbey: www.westminster-abbey.org/abo...
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  • @jumblyman
    @jumblyman Жыл бұрын

    More than the golden crowns and all the bling I couldn't take my eyes off the beautiful texture of this chair during the coronation.

  • @saradecapua3264

    @saradecapua3264

    Жыл бұрын

    How sad that people have disfigured that beautiful hair. I would love to have seen it in it's original state.

  • @aulikkijarvinen-nummi1878
    @aulikkijarvinen-nummi1878 Жыл бұрын

    Important work! For whole world this is important to maintain history. 🇫🇮😍

  • @josef27
    @josef27 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this interesting window into the preservation of this beautiful and deeply meaningful Medieval treasure.

  • @alina3254
    @alina3254 Жыл бұрын

    wonderful story!

  • @welshmanjasonpatrick8607
    @welshmanjasonpatrick8607 Жыл бұрын

    Great chair of history

  • @marcse7en
    @marcse7en Жыл бұрын

    I tried to order a Coronation Chair online from furniture retailer DFS, but there's a 700 year waiting list, so I went to Argos instead! 🤣

  • @deporz-bihanyann8072
    @deporz-bihanyann8072 Жыл бұрын

    plutôt que de l'entendre on voudrait voir ce qu'elle fait comme travail sur ce trône !!!!!

  • @pinkpanther5849
    @pinkpanther58499 ай бұрын

    I could tell you a bit more to be honest, before Scotland this chair was in Palestine as the throne of David made out of stone, the bottom half of the throne was taken from Palestine to Ireland then to Scotland where it was made into a chair then to London, so this throne is over thousand years old easy

  • @chrimbo90
    @chrimbo90 Жыл бұрын

    Seems to be a trending video right now for some reason…

  • @Michael-pn5lp
    @Michael-pn5lp2 ай бұрын

    The stolen Stone of Scone was recovered from Westminster Abby on Christmas Day 1950 ! On the Dead Sea Scroll's solar calendar, after the Vernal Equinox starting the next Biblical Year, it was placed on the altar in the ruins of Arbroath Abbey on the 11th April 1951. With a 21st March Vernal Equinox that year, this means that the Stone of Scone was placed on the altar of Arbroath Abby on the last seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread: a Holy High Day ! So in the same BIBLICAL year: • 1951 was 3400 years and the 68th Jubilee after the Exodus from Egypt ! (Working with a 4BC birth of Christ) • Before the next Vernal Equinox King George VI died on the 6th of February 1951. • Queen Elizabeth II immediately ascended the throne - although only later coronated. i.e. The Stone of Scone was recovered in the Jubilee 7x7 49th year of 1950, and later placed on the High Altar of Arbroath Abby on the seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread - in the Jubilee 50th year of 1951 ! The Declaration of Scottish Independence drafted at Arbroath Abby and dated the 6th April 1320, was also in the midst of the Feast of Unleavened Bread: The vernal equinox was the 20th March that year and the 7th April was the 4th day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread that year: the day of Christ’s resurrection on the Biblical annual calendar. So 631 years later (6+3+1=10), on the last 7th Day of Unleavened Bread, being a High Day, the Stone of Scone was placed on the High Alter in the ruins of that very same Arbroath Abby, wrapped in the “Saltire” or “Saint Andrews Cross” - the national flag of Scotland. Saint Andrew was the brother of Peter, and also an apostle and disciple of Christ. In the 1320 “Declaration of Arbroath” the Scott’s claimed to be Israelites who migrated from Egypt to Spain to Ireland and then to Scotland ! Legend has it that the Stone of Scone would sometimes groan when a king was crowned on it. It is now apparent that the Stone of Scone had a flaw in it. It had a faint fracture that could be the cause of the noise when some weightier kings were crowned sitting on it: the fracture gradually progressed further and further under the weight and hence the “groans”. When it was removed from beneath the coronation throne in Westminster Abby on Christmas Day 1950, it finally broke into two pieces in the process. The smaller piece was secretly returned to Scotland almost immediately and the larger piece was returned sometime later. Once re-assembled and re-enforced into the semblance of one stone, it was placed on the alter as described above. When it was later back in Westminster Abby, Queen Elisabeth II was coronated on a broken Stone of Scone - what is the significance and implication of that as we see history unfold ???.. , , , ,..

  • @maikaellubis316
    @maikaellubis316 Жыл бұрын

    The church is in decline of congregations for sunday services

  • @mauricerose3082
    @mauricerose3082 Жыл бұрын

    ...the Sabbath is Saturday...just because the Abbey now looks like the Vatican...

  • @realbhopwood
    @realbhopwood Жыл бұрын

    Biden is banned from the Queens funeral and the coronation.😂FJB

  • @hlondon2408

    @hlondon2408

    Жыл бұрын

    HUH????

  • @josephsf2452

    @josephsf2452

    Жыл бұрын

    Go back on your Trump channels and preach your BS Conspiracy Theories ‼‼‼‼‼‼

  • @ernestchacon4928
    @ernestchacon4928 Жыл бұрын

    This coronation has no value as it did in 1953.

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