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Dartmouth is a town and civil parish in the English county of Devon. It is a tourist destination set on the western bank of the estuary of the River Dart, which is a long narrow tidal ria that runs inland as far as Totnes. It lies within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and South Hams district.
Dart Lifeboat Station was reopened in 2007, the first time that a lifeboat had been stationed in the town since 1896. It has initially been kept in a temporary building in Coronation Park.
In 2010, a fire seriously damaged numerous historical properties in Fairfax Place and Higher Street. Several were Tudor and Grade I or Grade II listed buildings.
The Port of Dartmouth Royal Regatta takes place annually over three days at the end of August. The event sees the traditional regatta boat races along with markets, fun fairs, community games, musical performances, air displays including the Red Arrows and fireworks. A Royal Navy guard ship is often present at the event. Other cultural events include beer festivals in February and July (the latter in Kingswear), a music festival and an art and craft weekend in June, a food festival in October and a Christmas candlelit event.
The Flavel Centre incorporates the public library and performance spaces, featuring films, live music and comedy and exhibitions.
Bayard's Cove has been used in several television productions, including The Onedin Line a popular BBC television drama series that ran from 1971 to 1980. Many of the scenes from the BBC's popular series Down to Earth, starring Ricky Tomlinson, were filmed at various locations around the town.
Notable tourist attractions include the Dartmouth Royal Naval College, Bayard's Cove Fort, Dartmouth Castle and the Dartmouth Steam Railway which terminates at Kingswear on the opposite bank of the river.
Boat cruises to nearby places along the coast (such as Torbay and Start Bay) and up the river (to Totnes, Dittisham and the Greenway Estate) are provided by several companies. The paddlesteamer PS Kingswear Castle returned to the town in 2013. The South West Coast Path National Trail passes through the town, and also through extensive National Trust coastal properties at Little Dartmouth and Brownstone (Kingswear). The Dart Valley Trail starts in Dartmouth, with routes either side of the River Dart as far as Dittisham, and continuing to Totnes via Cornworthy, Tuckenhay and Ashprington. The area has long been well regarded for yachting, and there are extensive marinas at Sandquay, Kingswear and Noss (approximately one mile north of Kingswear).
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Rock Show Verticals Series ~ Winter 2018
*[Yes, it is... the late, great, Gregg Allman's son]
About Devon Allman(45) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devon_Allman
*[Just off Cuba - Deck-Stage - Day 2 - 12:15 AM]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=drXtQzAaAlA (One Way Out )
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5kB2Q-AZfA (instrumental)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IGEHxOZWnc (Melissa)
*[Just off Mexico - Alhambra Theatre - Day 3 - 7:00 PM]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEnfmoC5DPQ (I'll Be There)
Devon's Dad Gregg Allman (same stage) 2 years ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j22UwvZdcO8 1/23/16
*[Just off Key West -Studio B Stage - Day 4 - 12:30 AM]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T38sysv7S8M (One Way Out w/Hoey)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_VGCqrQ2I (Heart in Memphis)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=564Fli2M2sg (Purple Rain w/Gales)
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Florida Jazz and Blues Jam - Boca Raton, Florida
Devon Allman Band w/Duane Betts - Jan 27th, 2017
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcuJ83KYANE
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Rock Legends Cruise VI ~ February 15th-19th, 2018
Independence of the Seas ~ Royal Caribbean Line
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Independence_of_the_Seas
Fort Lauderdale - Cozumel - Fort Lauderdale
Twenty-two bands ~ Five Day Party ~ four stages
Concerts all day-and-night from 10AM to 3AM
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2018 Bands: Sammy Hagar & The Circle ~ Bad Company
John Kay & Steppenwolf ~ Blue Oyster Cult ~ Uriah Heep
Elvin Bishop ~ Molly Hatchet ~ Vanilla Fudge ~ Quiet Riot
Rik Emmett & Resolution 9 ~ The Black Star Riders
The Artimus Pyle Band ~ Pat Travers Band ~ Zebra
Gary Hoey ~ Eric Gales ~ The Devon Allman Band
Two Wolf ~ Mike Zito ~ Andrew Hagar aka Drew Hagus
Brandon "Taz" Niederauer ~ The Damn Truth
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Church of St Mary, Bishop's Nympton Devon
The present building dates from the 15c with the south aisle "completed" in 1621.
The tall, 15c four stage tower with set back buttresses, is a local landmark and is "one of the stateliest of north Devon" according to Pevsner
It consists of a chancel, nave, 6-bay south aisle (one bay to the chancel), west tower, south- west porch, north-east vestry and organ chamber.
The Norman 12c font survives from the earlier church it replaced. devonchurchland.co.uk/galleries/bishops-nympton-church-of...
A late Perpendicular chest and recess in the north wall of the chancel, probably used as an Easter Sepulchre, was possibly the tomb of John Basset of Whitechapel who died in 1485 (Cresswell) although earlier scholars have assigned it to Sir Lewis Pollard 1526, Justice of Common Pleas of Grilstone in the parish of Bishops Nympton . www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/6w2Hw171VF
Extensive renovations took place in the 19c. The chancel restoration of 1868 was by Edward Ashworth of Exeter, at a cost of £1,500 with further restoration of 1877 this time costing £1,090; The tower was restored in 1893 & the organ chamber in 1895
The gabled porch has late 15c / early 16c mouldings of the outer doorframe matching those of the arcade and tower arch. Entrance is through a pair of 19c timber gates
The east face of the tower has a large clock of 1897 which celebrates the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria ,
Inside are unplastered walls; The nave roof is a ceiled wagon, the wall plate 19c but the ribs and flat carved bosses probably early 16c The aisle roof, also a ceiled wagon, has a 19c wall plate and more sculptural medieval bosses at the east end, including a shield-bearing angel. devonchurchland.co.uk/galleries/bishops-nympton-church-of... The other bosses in the aisle are late 19c replacements. The chancel roof is an extremely rare example in a Devon church of a medieval arch braced roof, rather than the common wagon. Choir stalls, probably of 1869, with poppyheads and traceried frontals. The late 19c Gothic panelling in the sanctuary has been moved to the east end of the south aisle. Nave benches probably late 1860s with square-headed traceried ends. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/20g26B2FTj 19c painted slate commandment boards have been resited on the west wall of the nave.
Late 18c 19c benefaction boards are fixed to the tower walls,
A medieval timber statue of St James, thought to be of Spanish origin, formerly on the east face of the tower, has been re-sited above the vestry door. devonchurchland.co.uk/galleries/bishops-nympton-church-of...
The Caen stone pulpit has a memorial date of 1888 devonchurchland.co.uk/galleries/bishops-nympton-church-of...
There is a white marble Egyptian tablet in the chancel to Mary Jones, died 1838, signed Gould, Barum;
A Gothic gabled monument to the Toms family (memorial dates 1800-1906) in the nave; a late C19 Gothic monument to the Balman family (memorial dates 1818-1895), also in the nave, and a white marble Gothic wall monument to John Sanger of Whitechapel, died 1834, devonchurchland.co.uk/galleries/bishops-nympton-church-of... in the south aisle.
In the tower there is slate wall memorial commemorating the death & bequest of John Blackmore of Cross 1733 with fruit, flowers and the figures of Time holding a scythe & death, a skeleton holding an arrow. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/zB8b91Xq56
Picture with thanks - copyright Roger Cornfoot CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6232965
Church of St Bridget / St Bride, Bridestowe Devon is the last of 3 churches here - the first was probably of wood sited to the west near the stream.
The second, of stone, was nearby - In 1830 Rev Luxmore wrote of it “The old church remained in the churchyard and was converted by the addition of chimneys into a poorhouse After 30 years of exertion to get the nuisance removed, I succeeded”. He also reported having the arch, which divided the chancel from the body of the church, rebuilt at the principal entrance to the churchyard. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/2YmD1HnMdY
The present church having some fragments of 13c Norman work, was rebuilt c1450 - It consists of a chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled unbuttressed 3 stage western tower built of local stone - the aisles, porch and chancel are of granite ashlar. It seats 200.
it was much changed when the building "suffered savage 19c restorations" from c1820 judging from the comments of Rev Coryndon Luxmore who wrote "the church has undergone very considerable repairs within the last 10 years", the "old windows were replaced by new about 4 years since" and "the tower lately has been raised many feet and is now 40" high
with battlements and pinnacles upon it". ( the tenor bell has the inscription “these bells re-hung and the tower heightened and beautified, 1828”) There are 6 bells in total, all cast from a smaller peal, with additions in 1828
He describes the rood screen which was then in situ but was removed in 1869. The base of the screen has been preserved but in very fragmentary form behind the pulpit , reusing the tracery in the panels. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/290wa6VMq0
The old rood stairs still exist
The chancel was restored and the vestry added in 1866 sited against the north wall of the chancel.
The church was further partially restored in 1890 at a cost of £620, by Fulford and Harvey of Exeter for Rev John Loveband Francis.
New-roofed in 1893 & the tower restored at a cost of £500,
In 1900 renovations were carried out to mullions and pinnacles and much internal plaster was removed, leaving the building as we see it today.
The nave and aisle roofs are ceiled but probably have wagon roofs although not necessarily original. The chancel has a restored wagon roof.
Set into the floor of the chancel is a slate memorial slab to Thomas and Henry Burneford who died 1727 and 1757. with rhyming epitaph and carved skull and cross-bones below flanked by a winged angel's head.
In the chancel is a memorial to Honor Fortesque 1663, widow of Humphrey Prideaux of Soldon 1617 & Sir Shilston Calmady www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/1jDcK5nw2S
Nearby is a heraldic memorial to John Wrey 1576 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/U1VNH2dE7Z
The register dates from the year 1696.
There are six Table Tombs’ in the churchyard five of them being listed, and two 18c of brick .https://www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7WuS9aE368
In the village is the Georgian mansion, Millaton House, the childhood home of Lord Carrington which served as a hospital run by American soldiers during the Second World War
Also within the parish is an Elizabethan mansion Great Bidlake, the seat of the Bidlake family since 1268.
There are disused mine-workings which once produced lead and copper.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnS3lDAOP3k
Picture with thanks - copyright Tim britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101326297-church-of-st-bridg...
From May 4 to early October, 2015, while crews repair steel on the Devon Movable Bridge over the Housatonic River, Metro-North’s Waterbury Branch customers will change trains at a temporary station called Devon Transfer. On April 30, workers put the finishing touches on the station. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin
Church of St Clement, Townstal Dartmouth, Devon the mother church of the region, stands some 350ft above the main town, on the narrow tract which, since ancient times, has been a right-of-way from the coast through Longcross to the River Dart crossing at Hardnesse.
It is the oldest ecclesiastical foundation in the district. Probably of Saxon origin though it is unrecorded in the 1086 Domesday manor of Dunestal. Evidence suggests Saxon place of worship having originally been placed on Townstall Hill.
It was granted to Torre Abbey in c 1198,
The present building dates partly from the 13c with some Norman traces. The High Altar dates from James I and the font of Purbeck stone, dates from the 13c or possibly early 14c.
In 1329 the vicar of Townstall allegedly drowned himself and the Bishop of Exeter punished this crime by issuing an interdict that forbade any religious services from taking place at the church for two years. The Bishop however gave licence to William Bacon, one of the wealthiest burgesses of the town of Dartmouth, to hold private services at a chapel in his house, but nothing was done for the general public of the town.
In 1330 King Edward III visited Dartmouth and was petitioned by the town's burgesses to allow them to build a church down by the waterside which eventually became the church of St Saviour dedicated in 1372 , this saved the "very great fatigue of their bodies" in climbing the hill to St Clements .but came with the proviso that if it was neglected in favour of the mother church then it would be closed.
The building was "over restored" in 1881-5 by Ashford
in 2015 renovations took place when decayed pews and floors were removed and a new slate floor laid over underfloor
heating. • The chancel was given a blue lias floor which curves out dramatically into the crossing. New quality wooden chairs allow total flexibility of use. The curved altar rails can be removed and stored on special hooks in the North
transept. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/UagKw4mA0u
There is now a new disabled-friendly north inner porch, with adjacent oak kitchen and servery.
• Ringing chamber raised to balcony level to free up space for disabled toilet. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/wor52oG6U3
The south transept was adapted as a weekday chapel and for informal worship etc.
Complete new lighting was installed with high-efficiency lights and provision for theatre lights etc.
The driving factor in this scheme was the wish to make the whole church more attractive and inviting to worshippers, especially families with young children. In this it has been very successful and now hosts a whole variety of social activities. It is also far more adaptable for outside community events such as concerts, orchestra rehearsals, University of the Third Age, a Rock Club (all weekly) and Art exhibitions etc. .
Bluejackett01 www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2418700/st.-clements-townstal...
Church of St Mary, Dunsford Devon
According to the 'Village of Dunsford' website, 'there has been a place of worship here since Saxon times.
A later 'church was dedicated in 1261. The first known vicar Thomas de Bonville.
The present church in the 15c Perpendicular style dating from the 1420s , consists of a chancel with vestry to the north, nave, north aisle, south porch and a three stage embattled western tower containing a clock and six bells dated 1785. A battlemented north east projecting rectangular stair turret rises above the height of the tower.
It seats 200
The church was restored 1822 when the south wall and porch were rebuilt followed by the nave which was extended east by 1 bay and the chancel largely reconstructed in Decorated style in 1840, at a cost of £1,100. In 1846 a vestry was added projecting north on the north side of the chancel; with a stone chimney at the north gable end, a 2-light square-headed east window and a doorway on the west side..
The head tracery of windows in the north aisle and nave contain fragments of medieval glass including several figures of saints www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4YgXwzU9d4 and seraphim, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/jQR2S9g5HC all executed by the Doddiscombsleigh school of glass painters.
There some ancient monuments to the Fulford family in the north aisle chapel, who lived at Fulford House nearby , and also windows in their memory www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/W0fg6t7328
The registers of marriages and burials date from 1594 and of baptisms from 1597.
Picture with thanks - copyright Ian www.cornishchurches.com/Dunsford%20Church%20Devon%20-%20S...
Church of St Lawrence, Bigbury Devon, reached by a narrow lane, is a conspicuous land-mark for mariners out at sea, and the whole Bay, from Stoke Point to Bolt Tail, known as “Bigbury Bay”.
The church is thought to have been originally built in 12c its list of rectors dating back to 1274, when it consisted of chancel, nave & tower, the Lords of the Manor of Bigbury Court, being the knightly family of de Bikebury, who gave their name to the Parish . The last male representative of this family William de Bykebury, was said to have been killed in a duel at Morley Bridge, near Woodleigh, and the north aisle is thought to have been added by "his 2 daughters, in memory of their slain father, and that they themselves were commemorated in brass here in that aisle" More likely the aisle was erected by his widow www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/wbzE28Pde3 & his eldest daughter . www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/h3f2F4172F
The present building is partly early 14c and partly as rebuild by E & J. D. Sedding in 1868-72 at a cost of £1200 under the direction of architect J. Bedding with 200 sittings. - An inscription to Georgina Maria Harris d1886, wife of Rev James Parker Harris, says it was "to whose liberality the restoration of the church was mainly due" The chancel east window is dedicated to her husband who died at sea. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/zTZf23k2V5 Apart from the western tower topped by a spire very little is obviously medieval.
Chiefly in the Decorated style, it now consists of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch, south transept, ( a once private chapel) and a western tower, with spire
The 1509 carved oak pulpit www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Yf40918uCF & the painted carved oak eagle lectern www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4X8157Wwa7 are said to have been the work of a celebrated wood-carver Thomas Prideaux, of Ashburton for the church there. They were brought here in 1776 by Charles Powlett, Curate of Ashburton, on his presentation to the living of Bigbury by Harry, Duke of Bolton, the then Patron of the Living.
A large slate monument on the wall of the south transept shows the incised figures of John Pearse 1612 & wife Jane 1586 with a limerick like epitaph. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7jQpf20A2u & unauthorised coat of arms
The 6 bells in the tower date from 1788. They were re-hung on steel girders and frames in 1908, during the incumbency of the Rev. H. Bowden-Smith, - John Sparrow Wroth and B. J. Hooppell being the churchwardens.
One of the two windows in the north Aisle was given in memory of John Sparrow Wroth, and his son Walter who was killed in the Great War. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/79jorqDLPX The other is to Ellen Sparrow Wroth wife of Dr. John Adams, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Z0Uxn70920
Picture with thanks - copyright John Salmon CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1738588
Church of St. Thomas à Becket. Dodbrooke Devon,
The village of Dodbrooke could have derived its name from a Saxon thane called Dodda. Under Saxon law, no man could hold this office unless there was a place of worship on his land. This did not need to be a church: it was sometimes a wayside cross round which Christians gathered. The base of Dodbrooke's ancient wayside cross still exists, forming the base of the war memorial on the right of the church gateway.
If there was a Saxon church on this site, no trace of it remains.
The present building ,constructed of rubble stone with ashlar dressings under slate roofs, was built in the 15c, replacing an earlier Norman church.
There is reason to believe that this earlier church dedicated to Thomas A Becket, martyred in 1170, was built by one of his murderers William de Tracy, who owned land stretching from about a mile up the Totnes road to a little south of where the present church stands. Certainly the surviving Norman font is of this date www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/z53601S7GB
The present church is Perpendicular in style, and consists of a chancel, nave, north and south aisles, and embattled west tower with six bells. The 14c tower was once topped by a spire, but this was removed in 1785.
The nave and south aisle date from c 1450 although the pillars and window tracery are simpler than some elsewhere because of the hardness of the granite from which they are carved. Each pillar in the southern arcade is a monolith and is said to have been brought from Hay Tor on Dartmoor.
The capitals of the pillars in the chancel are more ornate than those in the nave, and may be later, but their remarkable decoration reminds us that splendour increases as one approaches the altar. One of these capitals shows the Lacy Knot, the token of Bishop Lacy of Exeter who died in 1455, and thus gives a clue to the date of this part of the church. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/6115qKSk69
The north aisle was once owned & maintained by the Champernownes of Dartington who were Lords of the Manor for many years. In the 17c the family allowed the aisle to fall into disrepair and eventually it had to be pulled down. The rest of the building was however well restored .
in 1886 / 1887 the people of Dodbrooke seized the opportunity to rebuild the north aisle and luckily for them, the church of South Huish, near Malborough, had fallen into disuse and ruin and its pillars and arches were brought here to form the northern arcade. Although it fits in well, one can see that this arcade is different from that in the south. At about the same time the west window was brought from South Pool. The chancel was also rebuilt The ceiling of the south aisle was taken down at the same time, exposing the oak roof, which has some fine carving and bosses.
The 15c porch probably replaced one from the earlier church. The inner doorway is earlier, and may be that of the original. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/6DggxL9Xac
The late 15c / early 16c rood screen survives though partly destroyed in 16c , the central portion having been restored in 1897 by Harry Hems with the addition of a finely carved oak cornice, and a cross between angels over the central doorway. At the same time the north aisle portion was added. The cornice was copied from that in Combe-in-Teignhead church, and the angels from two on the reredos of St. Alban's Cathedral On the shields on the screens are recorded the names of all the incumbents of the parish from 1327 to modern times. . The groining is gone. There are paintings of saints on the lower panels, these have been repainted, but some of them are copies of the old. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/s6wp1873wt
An organ was built in 1874 at a cost of £210, defrayed by subscription, &c.
A window in the aisle is filled with stained glass, representing the Adoration of the Magi, in memory of two members of the Pearse family; the north-west window is in memory of the Harris and Phillipps families.
The registers date: baptisms, 1725; marriages, 1727; burials,
1727.
The poor have £265. a year from Sir J. Acland's charity, and 20s. left by John Peter, out of the tithes of Cornworthy. The parish lands vested in 1640, for the reparation of the church, &c., comprise twelve tenements.
New to Greenslades Tours (NTSW), Devon General 325 (JFJ 505N) is parked at Torquay depot.
A 7'6" wide Bristol LH6L with Plaxton Elite bodywork.
Parked at the rear of Torquay Depot is Devon General Bristol VRT 619 (UTO 835S), one of a batch of VRT's transferred from Northern General in the summer of 1983. This one was Northern 3344
Parked at the back of Torquay Depot, Devon General Bristol VRT 1098 (PTT 98R) looks as though it is undergoing maintenance.
Just a nice view of Devon, looking north from near Kingsbridge. This was taken from the top deck of a bus back in the Summer - I just managed to get the DSLR out of the bag and snap the view before it disappeared. Thanks for looking.
Sporting a unibus advert for Paignton Zoo, Devon General Bristol VRT 1209 (LFJ 856W) rests inside Newton Road depot, Torquay.
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
Church of St George the Martyr, Dean Prior, Devon was first recorded by the Bishop in 1186 as part of the possession of the Priory of Plympton. The first known priest, Gervase of Crediton, was ordained in 1261. Of his church, however, only the late 13c / early 14c west Tower and font remain.
The remainder was rebuilt in 15c on the site of the Norman church, followed by 17c alterations and heavily restored in late 19c when the south porch was built.
The two stage tower has a central polygonal stair-turret on the south side, with bell openings and an embattled parapet.
The 12c red sandstone Norman font is intricately carved with frieze crosses, Saltire and two elongated dragons. The font cover, much restored, dates from 17c . www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/pRT0h47m28
The poet Robert Herrick 1591 - 1674 was vicar here from 1629-1647 when he was evicted during the Cromwellian period, returning after the Restoration of the monarchy in 1662 to the end of his life. In those days the parish population was about 400 people - now the population has reduced to approx 160.
Robert Herrick composed the epitaph to his patron Sir Edward Giles 1637, lord of the manor, and his wife Mary Northcote who kneel with their son on the south nave wall. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7hxf22E34r
The great yew tree in the churchyard was planted in 1780.
The lych gate was built last century www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/28v4i8082n and replaced the church house and almshouses.
The village surrounding the church, once included a school, and many cottages, these were all pulled down to build the new A38 Devon Expressway, between Exeter and Plymouth. . leaving the church lying directly to the left of the main road, flic.kr/p/2q4KEhR
The interior has plastered walls. The four bay north and south arcades with low monolithic granite octagonal piers, have crude uncarved octagonal capitals and double-chamfered two-centred arches. The arch-braced nave and aisle roofs appear to be 19c www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/E1u57FT4Co The late 19c / early 20c furnishings include:- painted wooden reredos and wainscoting in chancel, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/8aVTN26byc carved choir stall ends and octagonal pulpit.
Herrick is buried in an unmarked grave in the churchyard but is now remembered with a wall memorial and glass in the east chancel window
Janice Dennis www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2368069/st-george-the-martyr-...
Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Aylesbeare Devon
The font is late 14c, the date the chancel was begun. The tower & north aisle were added in 15c and survive in an unaltered state.
The church was restored / rebuilt in late 15c / early 16c. There is no chancel arch, but the rood turret projecting outwards externally between the nave & chancel & is lit by a tiny round-headed lancet made from a single block of stone, gives the site of a now lost screen .
The south side of the chancel is roughcast and contains a narrow priests door with 2-centred head which was repaired in the 19c. To left is an early 16c Beerstone square-headed 2-light window. To right is another similar but this is entirely 19c Bathstone.
The tall two stage west tower is unusual having opposing north and south doorways, apparently this was needed to provide a way through since the west end was formerly on the churchyard boundary. It has a semi-octagonal stair turret with tiny plain slit windows which rises above the main tower with its own embattled parapet. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/192GN7Y0wq Carved Beerstone gargoyle water spouts survive on 3 corners. Its south door is a studded plank door with moulded cover strips and large plain strap hinges which may be 17c of 18c www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Ng4u2XWbkX
The chancel was restored again c 1840 with new benches and fittings; New roofs were also erected.
Major renovation of nave too place in 1896-7 by E H Harbottle, when the south wall was rebuilt & new windows inserted. The porch was also rebuilt reusing some medieval material. It has a cobbled floot and is gabled with the Bathstone apex block bearing the initials BVM (twice) and AE.
Both nave and aisle have plain ceiled barrel-vaulted roofs with 19c wall plates. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/L5d0M52f6e
The flag floor includes some 17c & 18c well worn grave slabs
The 19c oak reredos is carved in Gothic style. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/3yJ70737Xq The pulpit is a 19c refurbishment of an 18c octagonal drum pulpit
The mural monuments to the Stoke of Minchin Court, Kenyon, Marker, Bruton, Pitt & Bennet families are all late 18c & 19c
A memorial to 25 year old Ruth Loram who died in 1919 says " she gave her youth, health and life as a nurse to the sick and wounded" www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7Po753R7Uk
The tower was restored in 1924 by Harbottle-Reed.
Recently the tower has be re-rendered after the original lime render had almost completely disappeared allowing erosion of the underlying Heavitree stone. An anonymous local donor gave money for a new gargoyle, the original having been lost . The new one was designed to mark the appointment of the first woman Bishop in the South west, and the fourth in the country as a whole. It takes the form of a mitre with symbols carved into it reflecting the Bishop’s previous career as a nurse and her honour as Dame Commander of the British Empire for her contribution to nursing and midwifery. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/2c22ri502n
Picture with thanks - copyright Derek Harper CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3087942
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Dartmouth is a town and civil parish in the English county of Devon. It is a tourist destination set on the western bank of the estuary of the River Dart, which is a long narrow tidal ria that runs inland as far as Totnes. It lies within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and South Hams district.
Dart Lifeboat Station was reopened in 2007, the first time that a lifeboat had been stationed in the town since 1896. It has initially been kept in a temporary building in Coronation Park.
In 2010, a fire seriously damaged numerous historical properties in Fairfax Place and Higher Street. Several were Tudor and Grade I or Grade II listed buildings.
The Port of Dartmouth Royal Regatta takes place annually over three days at the end of August. The event sees the traditional regatta boat races along with markets, fun fairs, community games, musical performances, air displays including the Red Arrows and fireworks. A Royal Navy guard ship is often present at the event. Other cultural events include beer festivals in February and July (the latter in Kingswear), a music festival and an art and craft weekend in June, a food festival in October and a Christmas candlelit event.
The Flavel Centre incorporates the public library and performance spaces, featuring films, live music and comedy and exhibitions.
Bayard's Cove has been used in several television productions, including The Onedin Line a popular BBC television drama series that ran from 1971 to 1980. Many of the scenes from the BBC's popular series Down to Earth, starring Ricky Tomlinson, were filmed at various locations around the town.
Notable tourist attractions include the Dartmouth Royal Naval College, Bayard's Cove Fort, Dartmouth Castle and the Dartmouth Steam Railway which terminates at Kingswear on the opposite bank of the river.
Boat cruises to nearby places along the coast (such as Torbay and Start Bay) and up the river (to Totnes, Dittisham and the Greenway Estate) are provided by several companies. The paddlesteamer PS Kingswear Castle returned to the town in 2013. The South West Coast Path National Trail passes through the town, and also through extensive National Trust coastal properties at Little Dartmouth and Brownstone (Kingswear). The Dart Valley Trail starts in Dartmouth, with routes either side of the River Dart as far as Dittisham, and continuing to Totnes via Cornworthy, Tuckenhay and Ashprington. The area has long been well regarded for yachting, and there are extensive marinas at Sandquay, Kingswear and Noss (approximately one mile north of Kingswear).
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Church of St Michael & All Saints, Awliscombe near Honiton Devon
This has been a site of worship for many hundreds, if not thousands, of years. The large irregular stone which lies outside the west door is thought to be a pagan standing stone, placed in its present position by early Christians to desecrate it.
There may well have been a church here in pre-Conquest times and there are some slight remnants of the Norman church which we know of from late 12c documents transferring the church from the Wells to to the Exeter Diocese and, in the following century, to the newly founded Abbey of Dunkeswell.
The first incumbant is recorded in 1262 . Another one was Peter Maverick, whose son the puritan Rev John Maverick took his family to Massachusetts in 1630.
The early church would have neen just the nave of late 13c with perhaps the chancel & south transcept. The tower dates from mid 15c as does the north east chapel added as a chantry, now the Lady chapel absorbed into the north aisle.
The present church built of local flint with Beerstone dressings, consists of chancel, nave, north aisle divided from the nave by 4 arches, south transept, three stage west tower with 6 bells, and south porch with two entrances to the south & west erected by Thomas Chard the last Abbot of Forde Abbey who surrended it to the Crown in 1539 and who was born in Tracey in the parish Thomas installed a chantry here (probably in the present south transept) and the mostly late 15c / early 16c single programme of upgrading and enlarging of the earlier building is thought to be due to him.
The c 1450 font www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7mv3i12369 is topped with a 1890 cover by Harry Hems of Exeter, who also carved the pulpit www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/0V4mt24L21
Entering, the floor of the church slopes upwards from the west to the east, and it is actually a case of walking up the aisle !.
Over the south door is an old fresco of the Royal arms, and on a plate is the following inscription:— This Royal Coat of Arms of the Stuart period, believed to be c 1660 (Charles ll) , was discovered at the restoration of this Church in 1887. flic.kr/p/9tchmh
In the tower arch are the painted arms of George III [r. 1760-1820], with the names of the churchwardens of the time: Josh Pring and Edward Baker, and the date 1810. flic.kr/p/9tcoEw
In the north chapel , the east window has remains of old glass showing female saints www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/and in the aisle are monuments of the Pring family of Ivedon in the parish, John Pring 1820 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/0Z68L12K2p who died 9 years after being wounded in the Peninsular War & his brother Daniel Pring 1846 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/5r65W19P57 who succeeded him & returning abroad "died a sacrifice to yellow fever in Jamaica.
The registers date from 1559.
Described by Hoskins as "mostly rebuilt in 1846" with reseating and restoration by Robert Medley Fulford in 1886-7
with the addition of the vestry/organ chamber
For more pictures see www.flickr.com/photos/sheepdog_rex/albums/72157626221480107
Picture with thanks - copyright Ian www.cornishchurches.com/Awliscombe%20Church%20Devon%20-%2...
A transfer from Exeter to Torquay, Devon General Bristol VRT 544 (VOD 544K) sits at the rear of Torquay Depot, patiently waiting for a new destination blind.
Church of St Mary, Bideford Devon
In was recorded in 1862 that “the parish church was and has been for sometime past in a very dilapidated condition, the walls and roofs being infirm and unsafe and the church generally damp, ill ventilated and unwholesome.”
On the 12th January, 1865, the present church, built in Perpendicular style, was consecrated by Bishop Henry Phillpotts with the rector, Reverend Francis Ley Bazeley in attendance.
Rev Bazeley had laid the foundation stone for the new building on Easter Monday in 1863 and the silver trowel used is displayed in the glass case near the pulpit. The architect was Edward Ashworth and it was during the re-building that evidence was found proving the existence of a pre-Norman Saxon cob and wattle building which is known to have still been in existence in 1232, its c1080 font still surviving. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/72JZ8f00Ku
The manor of Bideford is said to have been given by William the Conqueror to Sir Richard de Grenville, a Norman who distinguished himself by his successful invasion of Glamorganshire with his brother, Robert Fitz-Hamon.
The present church in turn replaced one built In 1259 by Sir Richard Grenville, second son of Hamon of Corbell, , built over the Saxon one; which was dedicated by Bishop Bronscombe in November of that year, with renovations & additions taking place over the years, especially in the 15c
Of that construction only the tower & the holy water stoup in the north porch now remain.
It consists of a three stage west tower with 5 sided stair turret to north face of 1260 , nave with north & south aisles with attached chapel on north, chancel, north & south chancel chapels, north & south porches
The doors in tower arch are made up of early 16c carved bench-ends. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7s44X08378
A traceried stone screen between chancel and south chapel incorporates the tomb of Sir Thomas Grenville 1513; flic.kr/p/y9QRAb whose family were still patrons of the living.
On the south aisle wall is a monument with the portrait bust of benefactor of town & church, merchant John Strange 1646 , four times mayor of Bideford; with an inscription recording "the former mayor having deserted his duty, he voluntarily took the office, and by his active exertions, and excellent regulations, saved the lives of many of his fellow townsmen, and checked the progress of that fatal malady (the plague) to which he himself fell a sacrifice". flic.kr/p/ytEc5U
The south All Saints' Chapel sits on an area once reserved for the Mayor and Corporation
The tower topped with a battlemented parapet, has eight bells, five of which were cast in 1722 and three in 1876.
A modern external memorial records the burial of Raleigh, one of the first Native Americans to be brought to England. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/91R1186VTr
During the Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549 an incident occurred in St Mary's churchyard when the Rev Richard Gilbert fell foul of Sir William Coffin of Routledge; the latter was riding by the church when he heard a heated altercation between Gilbert and a funeral cortège who had brought the coffin of a poor peasant to the churchyard for burial. The mourners explained to Coffin that Gilbert had refused to conduct the service until he received the deceased's best cow as payment for his fee. Sir William ordered Gilbert to conduct the service immediately and when he refused Coffin ordered the mourners to bury the priest alive in the newly dug grave. They seized Gilbert and bundled him into the hole and set to filling it with their shovels. When only his head was visible above the soil did they pay heed to the terrified Gilbert's shrieks for mercy and his promise that he would bury the old man without taking his fee.
Picture with thanks - copyright Laveen N Arbrham www.google.co.uk/search?q=bideford+st+mary%27s+church&...