Old city 'labyrinth' discovered by dog

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A DOG helped to unearth what could be an ancient labyrinth under the city after it smelled a rat when builders unearthed a mysterious hole in a car park.

Builders were resurfacing the Tarmac of the Old Vicarage, on Zetland Street, when they came across the hole on Monday.

The discovery re-ignited rumours about a serious of tunnels linking the old vicarage to the cathedral and possibly beyond.

Dave Wiper, of the Modern Savage Tattoo Parlour, one of a number of shops based in the building, was the first to discover there might be some truth to the whispers when he fell down the hole chasing after a friend’s dog and ended up in the masonic lodge across the road.

http://www.wakefieldtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=702&ArticleID=1085992


'God's Banker's dog'?

[Teaser]

1. The Templars are coming!!!

Don't mess with their shit.

[WCGreen]

2. And I didn't eve know they were excited.....

[papau]

3. Interesting - a thousand years of history!

Wakefield Cathedral - (a church was built on this site in 1080),
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Northgate
Wakefield
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THE CHURCH OF ALL-SAINTS or ALL-HALLOWS, WAKEFIELD,stands in the centre of the town, near the Market Place and at the junction of the three principal streets, Kirkgate, Westgate and Northgate. Till within the last few years it was so surrounded by houses that the whole of it could not be seen at any one point; but through the praise-worthy exertions of the Inhabitants, these obstacles were in the year 1821 removed, the church yard increased in extent and surrounded by an elegant iron railing which allows a full view of the beautiful fabricwithin it.

The Church itself is a spacious and lofty structure of Gothic Architecture, onsisting of a nave, chancel, side aisles, clere story, and two porches, one on the North, the other on the South-side; over this latter is a small room, now unoccupied, which used formerly to be the place wherein the Governors of the Free Grammar School, who are also Trustees of numerous other Charities in this Town, held their meetings. The Tower is very large,embattled and pinnacled, containing a Clock and Chimes, together with a fine peal of ten bells, and having a Spire,which is one of the loftiest in the kingdom. The chancel door is also on the south side of the building.

This Church was given by William Earl Warren to God and St. Pancras, and the Monks of Lewes in Sussex.Geoffrey Plantagenet, Archbishop of York confirmed to them the pension of sixty shillings out of it, most probablyas a compensation for releasing the advowson to the representative of the original patron.

On the 4th of the Ides of August, Anno 1329, William de Melton, Archbishop of York, dedicated and consecrated the "Parish Church of Wakefield", together with these altars therein, viz. <snip>