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Aka where did you get that hat!? Happy Selfie Sunday. Actually taken yesterday at Pixieland Dartmeet, Devon :)).
VWS3124 Copyright © VW Selburn 2015: From my archive. Taken on a visit to Sidmouth on holiday with my sister. I love the seaside towns. The English Channel waters lap around the beacon as it stands embedded in the rocky shore.
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Churchstow Devon - the village name derives from an earlier building which was built on the apex of a high ridge, the place thereafter being known as "church-stow." "Stow" meaning a "holy place" in Saxon.
The present church was built from dark local slate stone with granite dressings in the late 14c / early 15c with a continuous nave & chancel, south aisle & chantry chapel to the east wall of the chancel, added in early 16c, its granite pillars slightly leaning southwards, north transept & vestry, massive two-storey porch & three stage tower with a central octagonal stair turret on south face rising to battlement above
The 19c pulpit on a flared base, incorporates some 15c panels.
The font has a square bowl with some arca ding, possibly 12c on Victorian base. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/6r6YwD2144
There is a small painted panel with coat of arms is to John Petters Esq died 1715 "Coustemer of Devon", who gave 20 shillings yearly to the poor in his will www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/v96Q0782p3
Opposite , as with many churches, is an old historic Inn believed to date from the 13c, aptly named the Church House, which like the church, once belonged to the Benedictine monks of Buckfast Abbey www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7MGzYVpxo2
Originally a rest house for the monks and later used to house masons rebuilding the late 14c / 15c church opposite
It was later the original parish hall, an eating place, ale house for the legal consumption of ale brewed by the church wardens, somewhere to go to get warm before or after a church service, and a place to hold religious feasts.
Picture with thanks - copyright Martin Bodman CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5680905
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/
Well folks Ive been putting off telling you all, for far too long now. We got the news that Devons testicular cancer has metastasized to his lung and he will have to will undergo chemotherapy treatments starting next week I believe. We will be alright. I will be with him every step of the way. Were scared but in positive spirits mostly. Dr. Madden says this is still in early stages and still very curable albeit a difficult road.
This was last weekend at the Riverwalk I thought the boulder looked like a chair so I asked Devon to sit for a pic. Can you believe he flipped me off! Typical teenage doo doo head!
WOW all my Flickr pals have been up to so much fun stuff since I stepped out. Im so glad to jump back in the fray! Wheeeeee
St Christopher & the Christ Child between 2 saints on the inner south parclose screen facing into the south chapel
Detail from the painted rood screen, dating from the early 16c
- restoration and recolouring carried out in 1853
- Church of St Dionysius / St Disen, Bradninch Devon
Picture with thanks - copyright Bill Stebbing britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101307064-parish-church-of-s...
Church of St. James, Chawleigh Devon - mostly 15c & early 16c with major renovation in 1840s.
It consists of a nave and chancel, south aisle and south Radford Chapel under parallel roofs, west tower, south porch and low 19c vestry built in Tudor Gothic style in the angle between east end of the aisle and chancel.
There is no chancel arch, instead there is an early 16c oak rood screen of 12 bays which was " faithfully renovated" in 1910 according to a brass plaque, and includes empty doorways to the chancel & south chapel.
There are ceiled wagon roofs throughout. The similar roofs to nave and aisle appear wholly 19c whilst the more ornate chancel wagon roof with its small panels, cross braces and carved bosses may include 16c carpentry - It has unusual delicate openwork wall plate, more the type of carving to be expected on a rood screen.
The three stage west tower is roughcast with mostly original early 16c granite dressings and is topped by 19c brass weather cock. The 19c round clock faces have Roman numerals.
"A local band ring the bells hanging in the tapering tower; the Local Ministry Team, small choir and regular organist all help to maintain welcoming weekly Sunday morning services. This together with various other activities gives a Christian presence in the village".
Picture with thanks - copyright www.youtube.com/watch?v=mybRgIAJt54
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
Basking in the sun after being put out to grass is Devon General Bristol LH 118 (STT 410R).
It later saw service with Trimdon Motor Services.
Graveyard stone:"
171583 Private E Adams; 3rd Bn Canadian Infantry
1st January 1918 aged 56
Until the day break and the shadows flee away"
(Edward Adams was the eldest son of Richard and Mary Adams, of Crediton & husband of Agnes Adams of Toronto, Ontario).
- Collegiate church of the Holy Cross and the Mother of Him who hung thereon, Crediton, Devon
Michael Garlick CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7639036
Church of St Andrew, East Allington Devon has probably 13c origins and had only a nave and chancel
The building appears to have been enlarged in the 14c by the addition of a north aisle and possibly the west tower. However the tower might have been largely rebuilt in the early 16c when the whole church was remodelled and enlarged with a south aisle & chapel and integral porch.
It now consists of a three stage west tower, nave and chancel in one, 5-bay, north and south aisles, The south aisle has a west bay occupied by an integral porch with a stair turret at the west end in the angle with the tower, which gives access to a chamber over the porch. The rood stair turret is on the north side.
The church was restored & refurbished by William Cubitt and reopened in 1875
The 1547 finely carved dark oak rood screen spanning across the nave and aisles is largely complete but the canopy is missing; It has the arms of the Fortescues and other families who intermarried with them. One of the carved bench ends fixed to the base is dated 1633. One bay of the south parclose screen survives. The north parclose is 20c but incorporates fragments of old tracery. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/m979FTA707
The base and panels of the pulpit are 16c with Gothic foliage between the panels which have canopied niches The body bears Tudor characteristics; the billeted cornice round the top is Jacobean, and was probably added later. On the panels are carved the Prince of Wales' feathers, the harp, portcullis, rose, thistle, fleur-de-lis, unicorn and lion; there are also shields bearing the arms of the Fortescue family. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/e4Zg437440
The chancel has monuments to the 18c Wells family. The south chapel and aisle has many to the Fortescue lords of the manor from 16c to 19c. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/2E51978WD3
Most of the windows have 19c plain glass with red borders but there is a small fragment of Medieval glass surviving in one of the north chapel windows. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7s7o02JUDQ www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/k9JDmE055k www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/K715aG0g40
The tower has 6 bells, four of which were cast in 1723, one in 1861, and one in 1908.
The registers date: baptisms, 1554; marriages, 1555; burials, 1554.
Robin Stott CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2338900
15c Stained glass survives in the tracery of a window on the south wall showing 4 apostles with their symbols - the last one being St Andrew
- Church of St George & St Mary, Cockington, Devon
Picture with thanks - copyright www.cockingtonchurch.org/history/picture-gallery?pgid=l85...
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
Straight out of repaint, Devon General Leyland National 2819 (MOD 819P) awaits its next duty allocation at Torquay Depot.
Church of St Lawrence, Clyst St Lawrence Devon, probably Norman in origin thought to be founded in 1203 , but all rebuilt in the 15c. It is one of a few churches named after the River Clyst nearby
A small church, it consists of a nave with north porch, a narrower and lower chancel and tall three stage west tower which has on the north side a semi-hexagonal embattled stair turret lit by small quatrefoil lights, which rises above the tower parapet and is topped by a wrought iron weather vane.
On the stair turret looking down onto the porch is an image niche with a crocketted canopy under which stands the lovely statue of the BVM & Child possibly surviving from the 15c. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/q5785g80R0
At the top are grotesque gargoyles. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/2y1z1RM097
Inside the nave has a good ceiled wagon roof with moulded ribs with carved oak bosses devonchurchland.co.uk/galleries/clyst-st-lawrence-church-... The chancel roof is a plain plaster vault of uncertain date.
The floor is tiled and includes some 17c & 18c grave slabs.
The 19c altar table is flanked by probably 18c newly-headed painted commandment boards.
The oak gothic stalls are 19c .
There is a 15c screen of five bays across the chancel www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/w6P10M6NxA which retains its ancient colour and gilding, devonchurchland.co.uk/galleries/clyst-st-lawrence-church-... devonchurchland.co.uk/galleries/clyst-st-lawrence-church-... but the tracery has all been removed from the bays and the ancient cresting has been replaced by a plain wooden one;.
On each side of the tower arch are carved grotesque heads showing the Green Man and other men grimacing with their tongues out. devonchurchland.co.uk/galleries/clyst-st-lawrence-church-... .
The Royal Arms are preserved beneath the tower.
The unornamental girdled c1203 Norman font is made from a single block of volcanic stone, topped with a 17c oak cover.
The registers date: baptisms, 1539; marriages, 1540; burials, 1541.
The old 15c preaching cross survives in the churchyard which once had a canopied saint on top www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/vbF8ki88nD
Picture with thanks - copyright David Smith CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2239664
Church of The Holy Trinity. Exmouth Devon stands on an elevated position in the town.
It was originally built on this site between 1824 and 1825 for John, 1st Baron Rolle at the cost of £13,000 and replaced an earlier building dating back to 1412 on Chapel Hill.
The chancel was added by Lady Rolle in 1856.
It was described by the Building News and Engineering Journal in May of 1916 as, "a sample of the worst type of so-called Gothic churches built about 1830"
It appears that this 1824 church had by the turn of the 20c fallen into disrepair and was poorly maintained, so John Rolle's nephew Mark Rolle, commissioned a total re-modelling between 1905 and 1907, appointing architect George Halford Fellowes Prynne to carry out the works. The cost estimate at £6,092 went up to £15,000. External walls were re-faced with Ipplepen stone'; Mouldings, doorways and windows were replaced with Bath stone; Window tracery and doors were renewed, roofs reconstructed. The Lady Chapel was added to north transept; Minstrels’ gallery, organ chamber, vestries and new west galleries were built' Galleries in north and south aisles were removed; The chancel was lengthened by what is now the sanctuary. Heating was installed by Kinnell & Co. Windows designed by Fellowes Prynne and executed by Percy Bacon Brothers, gave a united scheme to fit in with the rest of the rebuilding. However it was not to the taste of Pevsner who said it had been "completely and regrettably renewed by the indefatigable Fellowes Prynne" A more praising anonymous report said "the architect’s new design did away with the angularity of the old church and produced the graceful and magnificent unity of style".
In February 1942 German aircraft dropped 3 bombs which exploded in the area of The Beacon. One bomb north west of the church and a great deal of the glazing in the north and south of the nave, including the those by the Bacon Brothers were badly damaged. Only the east window and those in the Lady Chapel on the east side of the north transept survived intact.
Chris Downer CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1477005
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.
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
The River Avon at Aveton Gifford, Devon...and the tidal road that runs alongside... accessible for a couple of hours either side of low tide....very important to check the 'little book' of high and low tides!!
texture thanks to Tóta.
Detail: Chancel east window, with 14c stained glass that is "reputedly the oldest in Devon except for a few of the windows in Exeter Cathedral" www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/X52Q8i3JJx
In the left panel Sir William de Ferrers c1290 - c 1337 holds a model of the church and a latin inscription says "Wills Fereys me fecit". (William Ferrers made me) www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/3Dzrzoxk50
On the right kneels his wife Matilda Carminow www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/6zrqT2sGk1
Between them Christ in Majesty stands in the centre panel
Below is a likeness of a pilgrim, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/JcN1E2y54z
Above are roundels with the dead rising from their graves on the day of judgement. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9479z3u0f9
William was the son of Reginald de Ferrers c1305 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/B5huo1D8ia & Margaret daughter of Isabel & Henry Dennys / Dennis
He was the grandson of Sir William de Ferrers 1280 & 1st wife Matilda Champernon www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/6406be1197
He m Matilda daughter if Sir Roger Carminow & Joan daughter of Sir Geoffrey de Dinham
Children
1. John 1315 - 1372 m Matilda daughter of Sir John Chiverston
& Matilda daughter of Sir William Pipard
2. Robert
3. Stephen
4. Martin
5. Andrew
c 1332 William extended the church, in part with money from a successful silver mine nearby . However the success of the mine came to the attention of Edward I who annexed it for the Crown, ordering the Ferrers send the silver to London.
c 1332 William extended the church, in part with money from a successful silver mine nearby . However the success of the mine came to the attention of Edward I who annexed it for the Crown, ordering the Ferrers send the silver to London.
His grandparents had rebuilt the church c 1243
(Dr. Oliver says, in Monasticon Dioecesis Exoniensis, p. 289:- "Sir William de Ferrariis having rebuilt the parish church was desirous of making it collegiate. For this purpose he assigned a sufficient endowment for an arch-priest, and four other clergymen in priest's orders who were to live in common under the same roof. Provision was also made for an assistant deacon, a sub-deacon or at least a clerk. The community were to perform the daily and nightly office (at the 5 altars) in the church and to offer up perpetual prayers for the prosperity of the founder and his lady, Matilda, during their lives, and for their souls after their death, as also for the souls of (his parents) Reginald de Ferrers and Margery / Margaret , and the souls of (wife Matilda's parents) )Sir Roger de Carminow, Knt., and his lady Joan; and the bishops of Exeter were to be remembered, both living and dead.
Bishop Grandisson and the Dean and Chapter of his cathedral approved and confirmed this foundation in 1333-4, but secured the yearly payment therefrom of 20s. for the chorister boys of the cathedral. The founder did not long survive his charitable work, for we find in Bishop Grandisson's Register, Vol. 2, folio 219, that his relict and executrix Matilda obtained from the Bishop, on December 15th, 1338, an acknowledgement of having well and faithfully administered to her late husband's property, and that only the sum of £20 in arrear ad comletionem cantarie de Biry.")
The presbytery was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1533, but even today the rector of Bere Ferrers bears the title of Arch Priest.
- Church of St Andrew, Bere Ferrers Devon
Picture with thanks - copyright Derek Harper CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6316702
Advertising the Torbay Freedom Bus Ticket, Warship class convertible open top VRT 938 (VDV 138S) " Warspite" is parked at the rear of Torquay depot.
An unusual shot of Devon General Bristol VRT 1219 (LFJ 866W) taken in Torquay depot.
Previously carrying an all over advert livery for Livery Dole, Exeter, this view shows all of the lettering and images removed before entering the paintshop, re-emerging as the Exeter Airport all over advert.