Arlington Devon
Church of St. James on the National Trust’s Arlington Court Estate in Exmoor Devon, the home of the Chichester family.
since mid 14c.
There are monuments to the family, mainly from the 19c as they were Catholic and were barred from involvement in church affairs for several centuries after the 16c Reformation.
The present church replaced a medieval building on the orders of Sir John Palmer Bruce Chichester 1st Baronet in 1844 It was designed by architect R D Gould who almost completely rebuilt the old church, leaving only the mediaval three stage tower.
It consists of a tower, nave, chancel and south transept.
The interior was also entirely refurbished by the Victorians including font & pulpit replacements.
A 14c survivor is the effigy of a woman, lying under an arch on the chancel north wall , thought to be Thomasine Raleigh, one of the De Raleigh family who owned the manor before it passed by marriage to the Chichesters in 1365.
Rosalie Caroline Chichester, the last of the Chichesters of Arlington , bequeathed her property to the National Trust
Meanwhile the family's home went through various stages of rebuilding. A Georgian mansion stood for only 30 years built by architect John Meadows www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/5Y06K55Cr6 and commissioned by Colonel John Palmer Chichester (1769-1823) after he married his 1st wife Mary Anne Cary www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/C1X2G36j2E in 1790 to replace the Tudor manor house he had inherited. After the death of Mary the next year in childbirth, Colonel Chichester married the Protestant, Agnes Hamilton, with whom he had 6 children. To the great distress of his family, he publicly renounced his Catholic faith in Exeter Cathedral in 1793;
By the early 1820s, it became apparent that the Colonel’s Georgian house had structural issues and he commissioned the architect Thomas Lee to build him a new house in the Neoclassical style. This house was completed in 1823. Sadly, Colonel Chichester died the same year and never lived in it.)
Picture with thanks - copyright Basher Eyre CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4499371
Arlington Devon
Church of St. James on the National Trust’s Arlington Court Estate in Exmoor Devon, the home of the Chichester family.
since mid 14c.
There are monuments to the family, mainly from the 19c as they were Catholic and were barred from involvement in church affairs for several centuries after the 16c Reformation.
The present church replaced a medieval building on the orders of Sir John Palmer Bruce Chichester 1st Baronet in 1844 It was designed by architect R D Gould who almost completely rebuilt the old church, leaving only the mediaval three stage tower.
It consists of a tower, nave, chancel and south transept.
The interior was also entirely refurbished by the Victorians including font & pulpit replacements.
A 14c survivor is the effigy of a woman, lying under an arch on the chancel north wall , thought to be Thomasine Raleigh, one of the De Raleigh family who owned the manor before it passed by marriage to the Chichesters in 1365.
Rosalie Caroline Chichester, the last of the Chichesters of Arlington , bequeathed her property to the National Trust
Meanwhile the family's home went through various stages of rebuilding. A Georgian mansion stood for only 30 years built by architect John Meadows www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/5Y06K55Cr6 and commissioned by Colonel John Palmer Chichester (1769-1823) after he married his 1st wife Mary Anne Cary www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/C1X2G36j2E in 1790 to replace the Tudor manor house he had inherited. After the death of Mary the next year in childbirth, Colonel Chichester married the Protestant, Agnes Hamilton, with whom he had 6 children. To the great distress of his family, he publicly renounced his Catholic faith in Exeter Cathedral in 1793;
By the early 1820s, it became apparent that the Colonel’s Georgian house had structural issues and he commissioned the architect Thomas Lee to build him a new house in the Neoclassical style. This house was completed in 1823. Sadly, Colonel Chichester died the same year and never lived in it.)
Picture with thanks - copyright Basher Eyre CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4499371