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Church of St Paul, Chudleigh Knighton Devon stands in the centre of this little village, with the school opposite
The land for the church was consecrated in 1841 and the building consecrated in 1849. It was a Chapel of Ease for the parishioners who previously would have had to have walked the three miles to Hennock. At that time it was known as Knighton Chapel.
The architectural style of this early Victorian Church is of Early English. The architect is believed to have been George Gilbert Scott, the grandfather of Giles Gilbert Scott architect of Liverpool Cathedral. The interior of the chapel was decorated and fitted by Revd. John Medley in 1846.
The exterior of St. Paul's is of Plymouth limestone and Haldon flint, placed with the rounded side facing outwards, which gives it a knobbled effect. Flint churches of Norfolk have the knapped side to the exterior. As far as is known St. Paul's is the only flint church in Devon.
On the roof-ridge east to west are Staffordshire blue roll ridge tiles. These were reserved from Chudleigh railway station at the time of its demolition, by Mr Colin Walker, a member of St Paul's PCC. He had been clerk of works at Canterbury Cathedral.
The Church gateposts became the War Memorial for those who fell in the First World War, forming an arched entrance to the Church grounds. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/45r2p7rWuk
By an Order of the Queen in Council bearing the date February 26th 1880, a District or Ecclesiastical Parish has been assigned to the Church of St. Paul, Chudleigh Knighton. The first Incumbent of the Chapelry of St. Paul (consolidated 28th February, 1880 from the three parishes of Hennock, Kingsteignton, and Bovey Tracey) was Rev. Remorden Sandilands. The window above the door in the south transept is a memorial to him and has a brass tablet below.
The second Incumbent was Revd. F.G Riley of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge who was inducted an 7th April 1891.
A Faculty for the re-seating and alteration of the interior was granted in 1876. The Incorporated Society for building Churches made a grant in 1878, on condition that 220 seats be free and 43 seats rented. It was possibly at this time that the gallery was added to provide the extra seating,
The single bell in the west turret
www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/0gG35yq5Ga was given by Katherine Fellows in June 1956 as a memorial to her brothers. At 23 inches in diameter it was cast by John Taylor & Co. of Loughborough at a cost of £130.
A Faculty for a further re-arrangement was granted in March 1961 to replace the east window and remove the organ from the north transept into the gallery and enclose the choir vestry, early in the incumbency of Rev. Edward Powell Price. Originally the vestry was behind the organ in the north transept and the present vestry was the choir vestry.
The east window glass was moved to the north transept to allow for the new east window, which had been designed by Harry Stammers, in memory of Hugh and Hilda Yeoman of Pitt House in the parish , and dedicated on 12th November 1961. The north and south chancel windows are in memory of Mr & Mrs Chichester, of Stokelake - Caroline Chichester to the north of the altar and Arthur Chichester to the south.
Memorial tablets testify that the lives of 18 men were taken from this small village during the 1914-18 War. A further tablet commemorates three members of the Gibb Family who were killed in an air raid on Plymouth on 19th April 1941. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/agS00H93f7
In August 2023 Fundraising efforts were underway to help save the building after the roof was found to be in urgent need of repair work Total repairs are expected to exceed £100,000, with the most urgent costing at least £17,000.
A spokesperson for the parish said: ‘As the PCC does not have funds to undertake any of this work, it has launched a fundraising appeal and will be holding a series of events over the next few months. Please help by supporting these events and donating to the appeal.’
www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news/support-desperately-nee...
A friendly and active church, there are weekly 9.15am services alternating between Holy Communion and All Age worship with traditional and modern hymns accompanied by an organ. The church site says "There’s no charge, you don’t need to be a Christian already, and you can wear what you like. We hope to see you soon!"
Picture with thanks - copyright Ian www.cornishchurches.com/Chudleigh%20Knighton%20Church%20D...
One of the original fleet of minibuses for Exeter City services was Devon General 17 (A687 KDV), a Ford Transit with body conversion by Carlyle.
It is seen here outside the then minibus offices on the lower level of Exeter Bus Station.
Church of St Michael and All Angels, Clyst Honiton Devon
The nave, chancel and three stage west tower appear to be a 15c rebuilding of the earlier late 12c church from which the granite font survives. Everything much reordered with nearly all the detail (except for fabric in the north aisle) replaced in the 1875 restoration, when a new south chapel and south porch were added.
Unusually the chancel is taller than the nave.
The tower has low set-back buttresses and an embattled parapet. A semicircular stair turret with tiny slit windows and its own embattled parapet a little above the level of the main parapet projects from the north side. On top is a large 19c wrought iron weather cock. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/2j3170t2Qz There is also a 19c painted iron clock face in a moulded Hamstone frame.
The south chapel projects a little further forward and has steep gabled ends with coping and apex crosses. There is a narrow Hamstone priests door on the south side
The chancel has similar 19c gable coping and apex cross and flanking corner buttresses.
The interior of the church is also largely the result of the 1875 restoration. All the roofs date from that time. The nave and chancel lie under a continuous 6-bay roof comprising heavy arch-braced trusses springing from large timber corbels. There is a similar 2-bay roof in the south chapel and 4-bay roof to the north aisle.
Inside the tower the ringing floor is 19c but the stair doorway is the original 15c and has an ancient plank door hung on strap hinges. The Beerstone arcade to the north aisle is also 15c. .
The floor is made up of patterns of polychrome tiles and flagstones. The granite flag under the lectern has a fragment of an illegible 17c gravestone.
The chancel has a Beerstone reredos carved in Gothic style, the centre panel is plain as a background for the altar cross and flanked by painted portraits of St Gabriel and St Michael and flanked again by painted commandment boards. The oak altar is Victorian but appears to incorporate 17c heavy turned balusters, possibly from the former altar rails. The present 19c furnishings include and oak altar rail , Gothic stalls, low chancel screen, pulpit and tower screen. eagle lectern and plain pine benches. There is a contemporary brass chandelier in chancel.
The oldest and finest monuments have been reset together in the north aisle. There is a Beerstone table tomb with inset coat of arms is inscribed 'Here lieth John Paul Elquier who ended this liffe the third of Maye 1575' to which has been added 'and his wiffe Jenfr'
Above this is an undated 17c marble plaque in memory of Edward Yarde with a rhyming elegy and carved symbols of a skull, book, scythe, hourglass, etc., with ribbons and flanked by cherubs on their sides as wings, an open pediment above with coat of arms and more winged skulls & hourglasses.
Below the shelf heraldic achievements flank a bas relief carving of a shrouded corpse and the apron below contains a cherub.
Immediately to left of these a carved slate plaque in memory of John Short 1657 with four coats of arms
19c Monuments include those in memory of Harriet Collyns 1868 & Abraham Smith 1821 . Frederick le Mesurier 1868 &
white marble sarcophagus-shaped plaque in memory of John Franklin.1831
In the south chapel is a white marble plaque in memory of Barbara Force 1832 and husband William 1838.
There are also some loose fragments from demolished 17c monuments; a marble plaque in memory of Hugh Vaughan 1631 in the north aisle and in the south chapel an heraldic achievement and 2 carved putti.
There is Victorian stained glass in the chancel and early 20c stained glass in the nave and tower.
(All sounds interesting, but sadly this church must be kept locked as there are only external pictures on the internet)
An old wayside cross shaft has been moved into the graveyard , with a new cross added. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/6e6L1V1525
Picture with thanks - copyright Robin Drayton CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1322076
Church of St Thomas, Chevithorne Devon built as a chapel in 1843 by Benjamin Ferrey, during the incumbency of Rev. William Rayer.
It stands with only a couple of cottages nearby, built of red local stone with dry slate roofs
It consists of a chancel with north vestry and nave with south porch. The west end is surmounted by a turret with one bell.
For a thousand years Chevithorne was part of the large parish of St Peter’s in Tiverton, It was part of "the Tidcombe Portion", with its own dedicated priest.
In the 1840s the priest of this ‘Portion’ was William Rayer, whose father shortly before his son's appointment, had bought the right to appoint the rector and collect the tithes
This chapel that Rev William Rayer built cost c £1000, £300 of which was donated by him.
Inside there are wall memorials to the local Heathcote-Amorys - parents & 2 sons who lived at Knightshayes Court and are buried in the family plot in the graveyard .
Their farmer ancestor from Nottingham, who made his fortune by , aged 25, inventing a lace making machine , in 1816 moved his factory to nearby Tiverton, and bought the estate. Another of the family is thought to have used his influence to allow Chevithorne to become a parish in its own right by Act of Parliament in 1889,.
The last of their line Derick, 1st & last Viscount Amory of Tiverton died in 1981 after which their estate was given to the National Trust.
Picture with thanks - copyright Lewis Clarke CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7347171
Parked at the back of Torquay depot, its Devon General service having come to an end is Bristol VRT 572 (MOD 572P).
Luckily, thie bus saw further service with Moffat & Williamson
Not a brilliant photo, but it shows Devon General VRT 1231 (LFJ 878W) in Newton Road depot, Torquay, freshly painted in the cream & red livery, the first bus to be painted.
A rather mucky day back in January 1986 sees Devon General 1401 (A941 MDV), a MCW Metroliner, waiting in Buckingham Palace Road with the iconic Victoria Coach Station as a backdrop, before starting its return journey to the Westcountry. It's two years old and has already lost some of the letters from the maker's badge and some wheeltrims. A similar machine from Western National sits behind.
There appears to be a maze set out in front of the north side of the church of Holy Trinity, Galmpton in Devon - why I am not sure - why I am not sure - artistic lawnmowing ??
Daniel French www.google.co.uk/search?q=galmpton+church+devon&sca_e...
Aka where did you get that hat!? Happy Selfie Sunday. Actually taken yesterday at Pixieland Dartmeet, Devon :)).
Working Brixham Town Service 117, Devon General 2819 (MOD 819P) is seen at the Breakwater Beach, Berry Head Road terminus before returning to the Town Centre and Furzeham.
Of note are the rather small route number blinds fitted.
Church of St Thomas, Chevithorne Devon built as a chapel in 1843 by Benjamin Ferrey, during the incumbency of Rev. William Rayer.
It stands with only a couple of cottages nearby, built of red local stone with dry slate roofs
It consists of a chancel with north vestry and nave with south porch. The west end is surmounted by a turret with one bell.
For a thousand years Chevithorne was part of the large parish of St Peter’s in Tiverton, It was part of "the Tidcombe Portion", with its own dedicated priest.
In the 1840s the priest of this ‘Portion’ was William Rayer, whose father shortly before his son's appointment, had bought the right to appoint the rector and collect the tithes
This chapel that Rev William Rayer built cost c £1000, £300 of which was donated by him.
Inside there are wall memorials to the local Heathcote-Amorys - parents & 2 sons who lived at Knightshayes Court and are buried in the family plot in the graveyard .
Their farmer ancestor from Nottingham, who made his fortune by , aged 25, inventing a lace making machine , in 1816 moved his factory to nearby Tiverton, and bought the estate. Another of the family is thought to have used his influence to allow Chevithorne to become a parish in its own right by Act of Parliament in 1889,.
The last of their line Derick, 1st & last Viscount Amory of Tiverton died in 1981 after which their estate was given to the National Trust.
Picture with thanks - copyright www.achurchnearyou.com/church/8840/
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Diptford Devon is a medieval structure originally comprising of a nave, chancel & west tower, the first rector was appointed in 1226, with the 19 year old monarch Henry III as patron.
Whilst the church has its origins in the 13c it was markedly altered in the subsequent 14c by major rebuilding - In 1336 Bishop Grandisson dedicated the high altar which suggests the chancel had been rebuilt .
The result is a mixture of conflicting dating evidence as the rebuilding added new and reused old fabric in their construction. Several parts of the church show styles conflicting between Early English Gothic & Decorated within the same piece adding to the confusion. Such is the mixed evidence that Pevsner declines to date the church, merely describing its main features. English Heritage indicate that a basic nave, chancel & small western tower from the 13c were enhanced in the 14c by the addition of the broach spire to the tower and in the 15c of the aisles. ( the arcades with their octagonal piers and 2-centred arches however seem to be earlier and perhaps part of the early 14c rebuilding)
At least 3 campaigns of Victorian restoration also add to the mix, that of 1840 adding the vestry on the south side of the west tower in the angle with the north aisle.
However in 1848 the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society describes it as "an interesting Decorated church in a state of dilapidation - chancel is destroyed and there is an unsightly vestry on the north west".
Further work occurred in both 1870 & 1908 when the north aisle is said to have been reroofed / repaired and the north wall of the chancel demolished to may room for the organ chamber. .
The 6 bells in the tower were recast in 1822. The clock of 1886 by Gillett and Co of Croydon
The south porch has a sundial inscribed: ":P.W. 1694. T.K.U.
As time and hours passeth away, So doth the life of man decay."
The registers date from 1653.
Derek Harper CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/187418
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
My favourite Devon General Leyland National to drive was 2866 (VOD 606S), seen here parked between duties inside Torquay depot, again during the time DG buses were being painted green.
War memorial in the churchyard of the church of St Mary, Brixton Devon
"To the glory of God and in grateful remembrance of the men of Brixton who fell in the Great War 1914 - 1919
The Lord grant unto them that they may find mercy of the Lord in that day
Ernest Dicker; James Ernest Downing; Sydney George Goad; Frederick J S Hardy; Frederick W Hewitt CF; Sydney Albert Husk; Frederick N E Kitson; Hubert Lang; Herbert Manning; Harry Nicholas; James Robbins; Frederick John Sargent; William Alfred Sharp;
Erected by the parishioners"
"To the glory of God and in loving memory of the men who gave their lives in the war 1939 - 1945
Frederick Thomas Martin; Blair Hunter ; Patrick Gospard; Roy Daw; Garfield Daw; Noel Edwaard Robins; Arthur Broad"
www.devonheritage.org/Places/Brixton/BrixtonWarMemorial19...
Gwyn Jones CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/66685
Leyland National 2848 (PTT 88R) (along with sisters 2845 and 2849) became part of the Devon General fleet when Western national closed their Totnes Depot in the early 80's.
It was caught here whilst resting inside Torquay Depot.
Church of St Bartholomew, Coffinswell Devon
The village seems to have developed as a settlement beside the springs (one perhaps a sacred well) where the lands of 2 agricultural Manors of that time met. - Tavistock Manor to the north east owned from Saxon times by the Abbey of Tavistock who leased the land to a succession of tenant gentry. The other on the north and west known as the Lay Manor as it never belonged to the Church. In 1086 Lay Manor was held by Radulph Paganel and the Exeter doomsday survey of this year places both Manors in "Willa / Wille".
c1155 with the advent of the third manor of Daccombe to the south east, a site for a church was chosen where all 3 manorial boundaries came together and in 1191 the name of the area is givenas Wille et Daccumbe. (Later Church records of 1193 name it Willa et Daggecumba and a deed of 1225 mentions de Welle de Dacum).
c 1230 the Coffyn family acquired Lay Manor and by 1282 the Manor was called Welle Coffyn.
A visitation of 1301 reported that the chapel had a good missal with musical notes, an old gradale, a good troparium and ordinale, a legenda and psalter, an old monastic antiphonale, a manuale and hymnale. A fairly good chalice, gilt inside. Two complete sets of vestments and two alb, nine altar cloths. a thurible, wooden chrismatory and a wooden pyx for the eucharist without a lock. Also 2 surplices and a rochet, a lenten veil. a processional cross, two cruets & 2 bells for the dead..
By 1326 it was clearly differentiated from the Tavistock Manor by is name of Coffinswille, and consisted of the village of Coffinswell and the hamlet of Daccombe.
The Norman font www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7iNSyHF4ZM survives from the original building of c 1159 which was an oblong thatched structure of stone or cob with a small south chapel to the east, with narrow unglazed Norman windows .
It now consists of a continuous nave & chancel (the waggon roof extending from the east end to the west), a north aisle divided from the nave by 4 arches supported on columns with carved capitals, a small transept, north porch, and west tower
The earliest part now is the 70ft red sandstone two stage tower, now dark roughcast, dating to c1220, its walls 2.0 metres thick and not quite square with the nave It has 6 bells; (two being of pre-Reformation date (Henry Vll) inscribed in Old English lettering:" Protege Virgo Pia quos Sancta Maria" (Protect us, Virgin Pious, Holy Mary;) ; two date from 1626 and 1637, and have the inscription: "Soli Deo detur gloria" (Glory is given to God alone;) ; the latter was recast in 1894 when a fifth bell was added with the inscription: Sit Deo gloria" (To God be the glory) .; the sixth bell was added in 1904.
Glass windows in the decorated style were inserted mid-14c when a small south transept was built . A three-light granite window in the south-west corner near the tower was added in the 15c
The north aisle erected late 15c with 14c style windows was also thatched and a broad trench around it caught the rain dropping off the thatch. The most westerly column dividing it from the nave has several coats of arms which refer to the Holbeame family and their connections (Scobahull, Leyton, and Gambon). This suggests that the aisle was erected by John Holbeame, a local gentleman who died in 1473.
The chancel altar was at St Mary church before 1855, one of the several copies made in wood of the high altar in Cologne cathedral. An older oak table altar with carved sides stood in the vestry but was removed in 1925 to the chapel of the retreat house at West Ogwell. The altar rails of oak are carved in the Gothic style. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9t90prBH82
The vestry was built in 1820, blocking the west window of the north aisle. inside are preserved the old stocks, remarkable for the fact that the board with the holes for the feet is flat instead of upright, so that the prisoners would either have to stand in them, or sit in a very cramped position. The old parish chest with slits for coins and two iron clasps for double locking. is also kept here, and some pieces of lead with foot and hand marks on them. ( It is said at one time visitors to the roof used to amuse themselves by tracing the shape of their hands and feet on the lead covering, and when the rood was re-leaded these shapes were preserved). devonhistoricgraffiti.org.uk/coffinswell-st-bartholomew/
The vestry has recently been refurbished with the facilities of kitchenette and WC, allowing for concerts and communal events to take place here
A fine granite cross in the churchyard was found supporting a cattle shed in the village. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7Upg0S0o53
The registers date: baptisms, 1560; marriages, 1560; burials, 1561.
Near the church is Court Barton, a manor house of partly 16c date; the southern part of which was used as a court house by Torre Abbey. There are many traditional cob and thatch cottages of which 29 are listed.
Picture with thanks - copyright historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1164557
Stood in the early morning sun before the Kingsbridge Running Day on 17th September 2022 is preserved Devon General SR478 (HTT 487), A Weymann bodied AEC Regal.
Alongside is Western National 333 (DOD 518) a Beadle bodied Bristol L5G
Devon General Leyland Titan Fleet No. 9992 Reg No. LRV992 on display at Teignmouth on 31 May 2015
Camera: Olympus FE-120 digital compact.
Taken inside Newton Road depot, Torquay, Devon General 938 (VDV 138S), a convertible open top ECW bodied Bristol VRT is parked between duties. Named Warspite, this bus formed one of the Warship class of open tops (934-944) and still remains in service today with East Yorkshire at Scarborough.
The church of St Peter , Cornworthy Devon stands at the head of the descending street, commanding the village below. Where, before the middle of the 13c, the Priory rose above the western end of the same street, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7766rvY1n2
The church dates from the late 14c / early 15c and replaced an earlier building from which the 12c font survives. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/J617vb7zVH
It consists of a continuous nave and chancel, embattled west tower which has 6 bells cast in 1781 by , 5-bay north and south aisles, early 17c south porch at the west end of the south side of the south aisle; vestry formed in the east end of the north aisle which continues up to the east end of the chancel.
It consists of chancel, nave, north and south aisles, south porch, and embattled west tower with clock and six bells, all cast in 1781 by John Christopher Pennington.
According to the Exeter Faculty Books the church was entirely refitted in 1788 (Hoskins) but the box pews and replaced wooden window tracery appear to have been done along with a gallery in the c1835 restoration. White's Directory of 1878 states that "the church was recently cleaned and beautified throughout at a cost of upwards of £400", but it seems to have largely escaped Victorian restoration.
The internal walls of the church are plastered, the floors are quarry tiled and concrete paved. The nave, chancel and aisle roofs are ceiled hiding the early roof structures. The 5 -bay north and south granite & beer stone arcades are carved with foliage / grapes on the south side and flowers on the north. The piers have been mutilated to take the rood screen and pulpit. There is a piscina in the south wall of the chancel south chapel and hagioscopes at the east ends of the arcades in the chancel.
The 15c rood screen spans the full width of the church, the canopy is missing but it is otherwise largely intact and has some remains of colour with the pomegranates of Catherine of Aragon still visable
The early 18c octagonal pulpit from Ashprington church has a rebuilt stem but the fine sounding board, original to the church, has a dome with a gilded trumpeting angel finial. devonchurchland.co.uk/galleries/cornworthy-church-of-st-p...
It has its own brass candelabra and there is also a fine 18c brass candelabra over the nave. devonchurchland.co.uk/galleries/cornworthy-church-of-st-p...
There is an almost complete set of Georgian pews dating from 1788 with 19c graffiti inside.- At the west end of the pews there are 4 large round corner ports with fluted pinnacles which probably formerly supported the gallery which has been removed. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/sX9o4841HX Dado panelling on the aisle walls is continued in the recess under the windows as seats.
There is a large monument to Sir Thomas Harris 1610 & family which In 1788 was said to be " an obstruction" on the north side of the chancel and was moved to its present site on the south sadly the wrong way round. This resulted in a considerable amount of money and a great deal of skill in 2011 to repair the damage caused and place Sir Thomas, his lady & the two children in their correct positions. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4H7S4i87pk
There is also a slate monument to Lucy Sperway who died in 1687 and another to Frances Newton d1744.
The registers date: baptisms, 1565; marriages, 1568; burials, 1562.
kindnessmatters80 www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2470450/st-peter%27s-churchya...
Looking past the narrow priests door to the south aisle chapel with its Tudor arch, down the graveyard path
- Church of St Edmund, Dolton Devon
Derek Harper CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3425628