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Sgith mi suas gu h-rd, gu h-rd...
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Aig a mhullach bha rud dathach a bha crathadh anns a
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ghaoth agus a diogaileadh mo mhionach...
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ach be itealag a bhann. Mar seo.
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Ach an dfhuair thu m bratach?
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Fhuair mi rud rd, geal... um...
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Crann. S e!
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Fhuair mi crann rd geal s sgith mi suas s suas is lorg mi...
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Rudeigin dathach...
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Rud crathach?
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Seadh! Agus bha cruthan air.
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D sersa cruthan?
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Ar cruthan fhin!
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Mo dhuilleag!
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Mo bhuilgein!
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Mo rionnag!
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THA IAD A' GAIREACHDAINN
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Ach cil Seren?
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S beag mfhios! Peek-a-boo!
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THA IAD A' GAIREACHDAINN
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Thall an-seo!
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Fhuair thu mach d bhann am bratach. Math fhin, Seren.
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Tha sibh morbhaileach, Abadas! Tapadh leibh, Ben!
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# Tha thd ann falbh, bha e math bhith cluich,
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# Abadas, Abadas
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# Ch sinn a-rithist sibh a-staigh s a-muigh,
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# Tioraidh! #
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Tioraidh, Hari. Tioraidh!
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Ch mi dhaithghearr sibh!
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MAMMAIDH: Ben! Trobhad!
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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MALE CHOIR SINGS "Sanctus"
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It looks such a straightforward place from the outside,
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too much so for me, really. A bit plain.
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And it seems that way inside, too, to begin with.
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You walk through the nave, which is quite short because when it was built few people used it,
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only visitors and onlookers,
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the real business of the Abbey, the worship of God, done elsewhere...through these gates.
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This is the choir and ahead is the sanctuary and the high altar.
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Beyond that, there seems to be another chapel, and ramparts beyond that.
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Unlike the nave, the choir is long, as it had to be to accommodate the whole of the monastic community,
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which, seven or eight times a day, gathered here to sing and worship.
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This was the hub of Westminster Abbey.
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There's no going up the altar steps. Instead one goes round the side, where there are more gates...
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and tombs at every turn, a cemetery in fact.
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Though it's also not unlike walking round the outside deck of a liner -
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the high altar, the sanctuary and the shrine like the bridge and the engine room in the middle -
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until you come up these unexpected steps and pass yet more gates
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into the prow of the Abbey and its tremendous surprise - the Lady Chapel, the chapel of Henry VII.
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It was finished around 1512, the last great flowering of medieval Christianity.
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Seeing it now, grey as a shinbone,
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it's hard to imagine that then every inch of it was painted and gilded
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and the windows bright with coloured glass.
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But scarcely had the builders carted away their rubble when the medieval church was split apart.
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The Reformation had begun and abbeys such as this faced ruin.
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Within a few years, Henry VIII had closed down the monasteries, taken over their lands,
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carted away the furniture and fittings, and the remains were left to decay and gather dust.
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Today, we think the destruction at the Reformation was shocking, criminal.
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But I don't know. The secular side of the Reformation, and certainly the dissolution of the monasteries,
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ought to be more understandable to us in the 1990s than at any time in the last 400 years.
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What happened to the monasteries was simply a process of privatisation;
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their assets sold off at a quick, short-term profit for the government,
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the beneficiaries largely those who are well-disposed to the regime,
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and the monks - the employees - made redundant. More or less what happens today.
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Had the Abbey been anywhere else but Westminster,
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Henry VIII's commissioners would've taken the gold and precious stones, stripped the lead off the roof,
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and left the rest to nature and market forces,
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which is what happened at Fountains Abbey and Kirkstall, Revo. But then...
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THEY weren't the burial place of kings.
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ORGAN PIPES DRONE
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TUNING ORGAN
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Queen Victoria sat in the chair twice. Firstly, in 1837,
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in her crown at the coronation,
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and 50 years later at her jubilee in her white bonnet and black dress.
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Anybody could sit here in the 18th century, provided they tipped the verger.
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They could also wield Edward III's sword which used to stand beside it.
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While not quite stripped pine, it suits our present-day fad for natural surfaces.
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But when it was first made, around 1300,
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it was gilded, painted and covered in semi-precious stones and beads,
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and must have looked as much fairground as Gothic! Perhaps even a bit common.
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What has brought it down to its present tasteful state is time,
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and a series of terrible indignities.
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A suffragette's bomb that exploded behind it.
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The theft of the stone in 1950 by Scottish Nationalists. George IV sawed off all the crockets.
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And the Victorians varnished it so heavily that most of the original paintwork was destroyed.
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Generations of Westminster schoolboys have carved their names on it,
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including one boy who slept in it one night in 1800 and left a message on the seat.
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Someone in Victorian times added the lions, but they needn't have bothered.
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It's such a familiar stick of national furniture,
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and the monarchy nowadays so anxious not to be remote,
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they could've dispensed with the lions and just put it on rockers.
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Once upon a time, the monks would rise at three to say prime, the first office of the day.
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Devotions nowadays begin at seven, with half an hour's silent prayer in St Faith's Chapel
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followed by the saying of matins.
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CANON AND CONGREGATION: ..And guide our feet in the way of peace. Glory to the Father...
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