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Font disappears from Templar cave!

Damage done to ancient sites by vandals and cult members performing their rituals - or is it a media panic?

Caynton Caves in the English county of Shropshire has long been rumoured to be an underground construction by the Knights Templar – though that is hotly disputed of course! But now – in sad news – it seems that a stone font in the cave has been stolen. A horrible act of vandalism! Theft at Templar cave A local historian visiting the cave noticed that the font was missing while filming recently.…

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Caynton Caves

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Rabbit hole leads to a secret 700-year-old cave network built by Knights Templar

This rabbit hole looks regular at first, but it’s actually an entrance to The Caynton Caves, a 700-year-old underground hideout. Just like the one Alice took, it leads to a magical wonderland, invisible to the average passer-by.

Located in Shropshire, England, this ancient space belonged to The Knights Templar, a feared Catholic military order that built its power and wealth by fighting in the Crusades. Later the caves were used by druids, pagans, and secretive religious sects, looking for a safe ceremony space. However, it was shut down by landowners in 2012 after they got sick and tired of a never-ending stream of visitors. But Birmingham-based photographer Michael Scott managed to get inside and document the mythical place in pictures.

This rabbit hole turned out to be an entrance to a secret 700-year-old cave network

Entrance to the caverns

Located in Shropshire, England, The Caynton Caves once belonged to The Knights Templar

It was a feared Catholic military order that built its power and wealth by fighting in the Crusades

Later the caves were used by druids and pagans who were looking for a safe ceremony space

Even secretive religious sects made their mark

Detail of some of the pillars and carvings in the grotto.

Underground in the Caynton Hall grotto.

Birmingham-based photographer Michael Scott recently got inside and documented the eerie place in amazing photos

“If you didn’t know it was there you would just walk right past it,” Michael said

“It’s probably less than a metre underground, so it’s more into the field than under it”

“Considering how long it’s been there it’s in amazing condition, it’s like an underground temple”

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Deep in the heart of the Shire, the entrance might look just like a rabbit hole, just a meter beneath these tunnels leads to a stunning cave known locally as The Caynton Caves.  These 700 year hand-made caves carved out of sandstone were used as a secret place of worship by followers of the Knights Templar, whom are believed to have been among the wealthiest and most powerful of the Western Christian military orders.

Who went through all that effort to dig this place? Was it really followers of the Knights Templar? Or something else entirely?

And what of even further implications? If this place is hidden in a discreet hole in the ground in the middle of woodland, only a few miles from where I grew up, how many others are out there, centuries old and waiting for discovery?

The hole to the underground Cavern is hidden in dense woodland in the small Hamlet of Caynton, near Shifnal the entrance to a man-made neo-Romanesque cavern, hidden less than a metre beneath a farmer’s field. They are located about 250 metres (820 ft) west of Caynton Hall. 

 Caynton Hall, (also known as Coynton Hall), interestingly has listed on the Parks and Gardens website a grotto which states that the grotto was created: 1800 to 1850. 

“The grotto is cut from a disused red sandstone quarry. The entrance is plain, but the interior, which comprises a series of ‘ambulatories’ and ‘sanctuaries’ supported on pillars, is decorated in the neo-Norman style” http://www.parksandgardens.org/places-and-people/site/5040/description

Why are they associated with the Knights Templars? 

The Templars, who had acquired estates in Shropshire by 1158, owed their original endowments to William FitzAlan and Herbert de Castello. Looking through all the properties listed in the Shropshire Archives which have been composed for Shropshire-History Website, no properties or land was listed in Caynton or the surrounding areas, many of the properties listed were in the South of the County, so this really is an enigma.  

The caves in Shropshire were once a place of pilgrimage and worship for followers of the Knights Templar, a feared fighting force during the Crusades who built an international power base on their reputation and spoils.

The untouched caverns date back to a time when the Knights were prominent before King Philip IV of France, fearful of their power and deeply in their debt, attempted to dismantle the renowned group.

The Knights Templar were a wealthy order of knights created in 1129 by the Pope who wore distinctive white mantles with a red cross over their armour. Its original purpose was to protect pilgrims from bandits on their journey to Jerusalem.  The Templars built their churches with circular naves, in imitation of the circular Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

The religious group were rumoured to have carried round the Holy Grail, most commonly identified as the cup that Jesus drank from at the Last Supper and that Joseph of Arimathea used to collect Jesus’s blood when he was crucified.

The incredibly religiously significant artefact has never been discovered, but there is a chance it may have been used by the Knights Templar in Shropshire. Out of fear that they would lose the artefact during the suppression of their beliefs in 1307, it is believed the order smuggled the Holy Grail to Scotland where it remains buried beneath Rosslyn Chapel.The Holy Grail could well have passed through Shropshire en route to its final resting place.

However, a 2006 book claims that the Grail was instead taken to Northern Spain, and protected by the Knights Templar there.

These stunning caves have lay dormant for years and it is still not known exactly when they were carved. Some believe it was by their knights 700 years ago while some think it was by their followers in the 17th century. If this is a temple, it’s rather exciting as only six churches were built in England by The Knights Templars.   

When looking at the font which has been reported by the owners to have been moved around somewhat, it does lend itself in design to that which belongs to Garway Church. 

The Hospitaller font with serpent and cross carving. The triangular motifs

In 2012, it was widespread reported in the local press and a couple of British Tabloids that the owners of the caves closed them to people wanting to visit after they found they had been filled with candles, graffiti and rubbish. The entrance to the caves was sealed up in attempt to keep the trespassers at bay.

The Daily Mail reported in 2012 that dark forces were at work and a section of the Caynton Caves which were littered with sinister symbols and rubbish after being taken over by a Satanic Cult.

  Amongst the mystic mystic sigils (seals) competed for crowded wall space with more modern scrawled messages, written by youths who have turned the temple into a drinking den, that was closed by the Owners in 2012.

The site ranks alongside Castle Ring, a public Stone Age monument near Cannock Wood, Staffordshire, which has become a hotspot for Druids.  Some believe the grotto is more recent, dug out in the 1850s by a wealthy family (The Legge Family) which also owned the hall as family folly. 

Photographer Michael Scott, from Birmingham, 33, captured the eerie pictures of the inside for the first time since it was shut in 2012.

Shropshire’s Links with The Templars

Within Ludlow Castle is an early Norman chapel dedicated to St Mary Magdalene.  Some people say it may have been associated with the Templars as the interior carvings include two Templar crosses and because of the group’s affiliation to St Mary Magdalene. It also has a round nave, again in the image of the Holy Sepulchre Church.

Penkridge Hall, Leebotwood

Penkridge Hall in Leebotwood was built on the site of the former Lydley Preceptory, a building serving as an administration centre for a group of Templars.  It was founded in 1158 and closed in 1308 when the order was dissolved.

St Jame’s Church in Cardington was acquired by the Templars in 1186 and the first documented priest was Arnulf. After the suppression of the Templars in 1308, Cardington Church was taken over by the Crown and given to the Knights Hospitaller in 1314, an order of knights created in 1113 by the Pope to provide care for sick, poor or injured pilgrims.

Stanton Long Grange was founded in 1221 as a farm and closed in 1308 when the order was dissolved.  The site is at the hamlet of Brookhampton but nothing now remains.

This is not the only underground cave system which has unusual carvings in the Shire.  Kinver Million Cave houses what appears to be a statue to a Pagan Goddess. 

Kinver Million Cave a Pagan Goddess

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jfvqZR1C5C0

So, whether this enigmatic labyrinth was a rich families folly or a secret temple that housed the holy grail who is to know ? One thing is certain, this sleepy little Hamlet deep in the Shropshire Countryside is receiving worldwide attention.   

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  Sources and further reading

Caynton Caves http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2090338/Caynton-Caves-Black-magic-rituals-force-closure-mysterious-site-owners-lose-patience-trespassing-cult.html#ixzz4alyJT2GY

Read more at http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2017/03/07/in-pictures-secret-knights-templar-caves-beneath-a-shropshire-field/#36diQwxoGTyeS2Fp.99

Read more at http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2017/03/07/in-pictures-secret-knights-templar-caves-beneath-a-shropshire-field/#36diQwxoGTyeS2Fp.99

Templars in Shropshire, British History http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/salop/vol2/pp85-86

Shropshire History, The Templars. http://www.shropshirehistory.com/military/templar.htm

The accounts for the Templars’ estates in Shropshire and Staffordshire, 1308-9 and 1311-13 http://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/knightstemplarsestates/2015/11/03/the-accounts-for-the-templars-estates-in-shropshire-and-staffordshire-1308-9-and-1311-13/

Caynton Hall http://www.parksandgardens.org/places-and-people/site/5040/description

Mysterious Knights Templars Caverns Revealed in the Shire Deep in the heart of the Shire, the entrance might look just like a rabbit hole, just a meter beneath these tunnels leads to a stunning cave known locally as The Caynton Caves.

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Knights Templar's Mysterious Underground Chambers Hidden In The Caynton Caves Discovered | Ancient Pages

Knights Templar’s Mysterious Underground Chambers Hidden In The Caynton Caves Discovered | Ancient Pages

https://www.ancientpages.com/2021/04/13/knights-templars-mysterious-underground-chambers-hidden-in-the-caynton-caves-discovered/

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Sword found in Shropshire's mysterious Caynton caves actually belongs to 13thC Knights Templar https://www.anglenews.com/sword-found-in-shropshires-mysterious-caynton-caves-actually-belongs-to-13thc-knights-templar/

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Rabbit hole leads to 'Knights Templar' cave

An apparently ordinary rabbit’s hole in a farmer’s field leads to an underground sanctuary said to have been used by devotees of a medieval religious order – but is everything what it seems?

According to local legend, the Caynton Caves, near Shifnal, in Shropshire, were used by followers of the Knights Templar in the 17th Century.

Located less than a metre underground, they appear to be untouched structurally.

Their original purpose is shrouded in mystery, but Historic England, which describes the caves as a “grotto”, believes they were probably built in the late 18th or early 19th Century – hundreds of years after the Templar order was dissolved.

In its report, it said the caves appear to be used for “black magic rites” by modern-day visitors.

Michael Scott, from Birmingham, went to photograph the caves after seeing a video of them online.

Read more…

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Rabbit Gap Leads To A Secret 700-12 months-Previous Cave Community Constructed By Knights Templar

Rabbit Gap Leads To A Secret 700-12 months-Previous Cave Community Constructed By Knights Templar

This rabbit gap appears to be like common at first, nevertheless it’s really an entrance to The Caynton Caves, a 700-year-old underground hideout. Identical to the one Alice took, it results in a magical wonderland, invisible to the typical passer-by.

Situated in Shropshire, England, this historic area belonged to The Knights Templar, a feared Catholic navy order that constructed its energy…

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According to local legend, the Caynton Caves, near Shifnal, in Shropshire, were used by followers of the Knights Templar in the 17th Century.

Located less than a metre underground, they appear to be untouched structurally. (x)

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Caynton Cave

This mysterious underground cave is said to be the site of secret rituals conducted by the medieval religious order.  

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Via BBC #Shropshire Shropshire 'sword in the sand' could be from 13th Century

Mark Lawton kept the sword on his windowsill after finding it in Shropshire's Caynton caves. https://bbc.in/2N0NfqF

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700 лет кроличья нора скрывала за собой вход в пещеру тамплиеров

Эта ничем непримечательная с виду кроличья нора находится в Великобритании в графстве Шропшир и является маскировкой входа в пещерный комплекс Caynton Caves, построенный 700 лет назад рыцарями ордена тамплиеров. Оказавшись внутри, вы попадаете в большой зал с арками, ступеньками и резными нишами. Убежище находится всего лишь на метровой глубине, однако заметить его снаружи практически невозможно.

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You Never Know What You’ll Find Down the Rabbit Hole! Were the Spooky Caynton Caves a Secret Templar Sanctuary? | Ancient Origins

You Never Know What You’ll Find Down the Rabbit Hole! Were the Spooky Caynton Caves a Secret Templar Sanctuary? | Ancient Origins

Source: You Never Know What You’ll Find Down the Rabbit Hole! Were the Spooky Caynton Caves a Secret Templar Sanctuary? | Ancient Origins

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A sword discovered 30 years ago in a cave has turned out to be a lot more significant than previously thought. #knightstemplar #Shropshire #KingArthur https://www.anglenews.com/sword-found-in-shropshires-mysterious-caynton-caves-actually-belongs-to-13thc-knights-templar/

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@thecowboycamper: Disappointed the caynton house Templar caves are closed to the public. What to do now! #roadtrip #vanlife #shropshire

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