Dartington Devon
Church of St Mary, Dartington, Devon
There was an earlier church here sited nearer the Hall which was replaced by a 14c building of which only the tower now survives. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/W782JS1eLh After restoring this latter building in c 1850, architect J L Pearson, 28 years afterwards, rebuilt the present church in Perpendicular style on a new site reusing some of its material after its demolition in 1873
Pearson re-used the window traceries from the old church for the chapels and sanctuary wherever he could and designed windows to match in the nave aisles and lower stage of the tower,
The reused external material included the vaulting of the 14c south porch, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Vb5G63xu28 parts of its doorway with its sanctuary knocker, the south doorway and door, the old granite battlements, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/R39EB9o2JB tracery in the south corridor of the chancel and the window in the east end of the south aisle; possibly also the doorways to the rood stairs;
The reused internal furnishings include the 15c / 13c (?) font with its plain octagonal granite bowl, bevelled beneath and supported on an octagonal stem decorated with trefoiled arches, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/H1z7155F5K the much restored octagonal carved wooden wine glass pulpit which 'records of accounts imply… was under construction in 1499' www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7m6M0752bQ , and the 15c screen (unfortunately incomplete and much restored in 1913 by Hems of Exeter.) www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Z530h3A424 The carved oak seats, some old and some like the fine open roof, dating from the 1850 restoration, were used in the new church. The old oak had long ago been repaired with deal, and then painted over with oak graining, but so well toned that visitors often fail to discover the difference.
Pearson also built the new tower, which contains 6 bells cast in 1880, and the 1893 clock is a memorial of the late rector, Rev Richard Champernowne d1890 who bore the largest share of the expense of moving the church.
The present church consists of a nave, north and south aisles and chancel under one roof; west tower; south porch with chamber over and vestry on the north side of the chancel in the angle with the north aisle
The registers date: baptisms, 1542; marriages, 1538; burials, 1539.
(Dartington was anciently the seat of a barony, which, at the time of the 1086 Domesday survey, belonged to William de Falesia but shortly afterwards came to Robert son of Martin de Tours, Lord of Camois in Wales, probably by marriage, This family of Fitz Martin / Martyn, continued to possess and live here for 6 generations . Upon the death of William Lord Martin, the estate devolved to James Lord Audley, whose father had married one of Martin's co-heiress sisters . Upon the death of Nicholas Lord Audley, it passed, in default of issue male, to the Crown In 1385, King Richard II. granted it with other manors to Robert de Vere aand afterwards to his half-brother, John Holland Duke of Exeter, who lived here, and is said to have built most of the present mansion with its great medieval hall. After the death of Henry Duke of Exeter, who married one of the sisters of King Edward IV., it again went to the Crown. Margaret Countess of Richmond mother of Henry Vll, had a grant of it for life in 1487. Some time afterward it was purchased by Ailworth, who is thought to have exchanged it with Sir Arthur Champernowne 1578 flic.kr/p/pSLKmw , a younger son of Sir Philip Champernowne, of Modbury, for the site of the abbey of Polesloe, near Exeter. Sir Arthur Champernowne possessed and lived here , and it continued to be the seat of this branch of the family till the death of Rawlin Champernowne in 1774, when, pursuant to a remainder in the will of Arthur Champernowne who died in 1766, it devolved to his nephew Arthur Harington)
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Dartington Devon
Church of St Mary, Dartington, Devon
There was an earlier church here sited nearer the Hall which was replaced by a 14c building of which only the tower now survives. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/W782JS1eLh After restoring this latter building in c 1850, architect J L Pearson, 28 years afterwards, rebuilt the present church in Perpendicular style on a new site reusing some of its material after its demolition in 1873
Pearson re-used the window traceries from the old church for the chapels and sanctuary wherever he could and designed windows to match in the nave aisles and lower stage of the tower,
The reused external material included the vaulting of the 14c south porch, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Vb5G63xu28 parts of its doorway with its sanctuary knocker, the south doorway and door, the old granite battlements, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/R39EB9o2JB tracery in the south corridor of the chancel and the window in the east end of the south aisle; possibly also the doorways to the rood stairs;
The reused internal furnishings include the 15c / 13c (?) font with its plain octagonal granite bowl, bevelled beneath and supported on an octagonal stem decorated with trefoiled arches, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/H1z7155F5K the much restored octagonal carved wooden wine glass pulpit which 'records of accounts imply… was under construction in 1499' www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7m6M0752bQ , and the 15c screen (unfortunately incomplete and much restored in 1913 by Hems of Exeter.) www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Z530h3A424 The carved oak seats, some old and some like the fine open roof, dating from the 1850 restoration, were used in the new church. The old oak had long ago been repaired with deal, and then painted over with oak graining, but so well toned that visitors often fail to discover the difference.
Pearson also built the new tower, which contains 6 bells cast in 1880, and the 1893 clock is a memorial of the late rector, Rev Richard Champernowne d1890 who bore the largest share of the expense of moving the church.
The present church consists of a nave, north and south aisles and chancel under one roof; west tower; south porch with chamber over and vestry on the north side of the chancel in the angle with the north aisle
The registers date: baptisms, 1542; marriages, 1538; burials, 1539.
(Dartington was anciently the seat of a barony, which, at the time of the 1086 Domesday survey, belonged to William de Falesia but shortly afterwards came to Robert son of Martin de Tours, Lord of Camois in Wales, probably by marriage, This family of Fitz Martin / Martyn, continued to possess and live here for 6 generations . Upon the death of William Lord Martin, the estate devolved to James Lord Audley, whose father had married one of Martin's co-heiress sisters . Upon the death of Nicholas Lord Audley, it passed, in default of issue male, to the Crown In 1385, King Richard II. granted it with other manors to Robert de Vere aand afterwards to his half-brother, John Holland Duke of Exeter, who lived here, and is said to have built most of the present mansion with its great medieval hall. After the death of Henry Duke of Exeter, who married one of the sisters of King Edward IV., it again went to the Crown. Margaret Countess of Richmond mother of Henry Vll, had a grant of it for life in 1487. Some time afterward it was purchased by Ailworth, who is thought to have exchanged it with Sir Arthur Champernowne 1578 flic.kr/p/pSLKmw , a younger son of Sir Philip Champernowne, of Modbury, for the site of the abbey of Polesloe, near Exeter. Sir Arthur Champernowne possessed and lived here , and it continued to be the seat of this branch of the family till the death of Rawlin Champernowne in 1774, when, pursuant to a remainder in the will of Arthur Champernowne who died in 1766, it devolved to his nephew Arthur Harington)
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