Today's Church. Caution, contains dead people

[zigs]

St. Leonard's, Hythe

One of 2 surviving ossuarys in the U.K.

This one looked familiar

 

[zigs]

Someone's hair from 700 years ago..

 

[DrCase]

Thats just a little weird .... Zigs

 

[Esther Knapicius]

Why? what is the history behind why that is done.

 

[Chuck]

Zigs I see you are staring at a head with what looks like a bashed in skull. Any thoughts on who, what, when, where and why?

 

[Esther Knapicius]

Crypt (Ossuary) - The Parish of St Leonard, Hythe

The parish of Hythe, in Kent, with the parish church of St Leonard - known as the church with the bones because of the ossuary in teh church crypt.

www.slhk.org

 

[MaryMary]

This is fascinating. I saw a show years ago on National Geographic ( I think...) about a guy that incorporated thousands of animal bones to build his house. (He made walls out of stacks of them, he lined up skulls in the stair risers, he put them everywhere! I must not be putting in the right search terms, I can't find it now. )

This one looked familiar

Maybe it's an ancient relative!

Zigs I see you are staring at a head with what looks like a bashed in skull. Any thoughts on who, what, when, where and why?

Maybe it's an ancient relative!



@Esther Knapicius, thank you for the link, but it still doesn't answer "Why?"



zigs, in Esther's link I read, "Postcards in the early 1900s with photographs of the crypt show the layout much the same as it is today."

Umm... er... (...Insert much hemming and hawing....) By any chance, do they still sell those postcards today?? No particular reason, of course...

 

[zigs]

Maybe it's an ancient relative!

Might have been an ancient relative