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People have been asking me a lot how well does Devon pose and the answer is superbly. Thanks to her double jointed knees and elbows, she can even sit in seiza. I have wired her legs so she can hold a pose better and stand unsupported. She could stand without a stand before too, but the knees had some side movement and I am so use to wired BJDs that I wanted to wire her too.
Former Devon General 1978 built Bristol VR VDV123S (584) is seen at the Red Funnel terminal in Southampton, waiting for it's passage over to Cowes to participate in the Isle of Wight Classic Buses Beer & Walks Weekend, where it could be found operating on route T Newport Quay to Alum Bay/Yarmouth.
11th October 2019
A sunny Sunday at South Milton, on the South Devon coast, looked like an ideal KAP outing, with a good onshore breeze. However my temporary fix to my R/C KAP rig (busted in Italy) failed to work.
As a result I had no control over pan, tilt or shutter, so I pointed the camera straight down and used an SDM intervalometer script to take shots every 6 seconds as I walked along the beach.
The resulting stitched panorama is some 17700 by 5300 pixels (around 93 megapixels) - not quite up to Cris Benton's epic, but not too shabby. This picture has a quarter of the pixels of the original (8800 by 2650 pixels)
Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 - ADL Enviro 200 B38F
New to this Operator during July-2008 .
139 is heading for Beacon Park and Ham , working on Route 35A.
Royal Parade , Plymouth , Devon .
Tuesday morning 19th-October-2021
Put out to grass, Devon General Bristol RE 228 (ATA 228L) contemplates its future after withdrawal at the back of Torquay Depot.
Alongside is one of the chassis converted to store the roofs from the open top fleet in the summer.
In April we went to the Leica Fellowship weekend in Devon. We were based in Tiverton but didn't get too much time to explore the place, these are a few snaps.
Church of the Holy Trinity Gidleigh Devon
"Ghiderleia" (the clearing of Gydda ), in the 1086 Domesday Survey , it was at that time held by Godwin the Priest from the Count of Mortain which indicates there was a church in existence at that time or before in Saxon times.
It was later from the time of Henry ll held by the Prouz / Prous family and the ruins of a Norman castle which was their seat, still survives near the church. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/6G28Lcw321 This elder branch became extinct in the reign of Edward II when Gidley castle and manor passed with its heiress to the Mules family, and from the Mules in like manner to the Damarell family - William Damarell gave this estate to his daughter, the wife of Walter Coade of Morvall in Cornwall, in whose descendants it continued. Of late years it became the property of Bartholomew Gidley www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/5Yr55JmA46 on whose death in mid 18c the estate passed into the family of Rattery . The manor and advowson was then purchased under a decree of the court of chancery by the Rev. Thomas Whipham, vicar of King's Teignton.
The church was completely rebuilt at the end of the 15c. At that time the building would have had a thatched roof which according to records was re-thatched in 1753. The church underwent some reconstruction in the 1600s, the roof slated in the late 1700s and apart from that very little has been changed,
It now comprises a nave continuous with the chancel under a late 15c / early 16c ceiled wagon roof of Devon oak. The chancel has moulded ribs and purlins with some plain ,maybe 19c replacement) carved bosses. The south aisle roof is the same as the nave. The side aisle on the south side is separated from the nave by a three-bay arcade, supported by granite columns.
The west two stage tower now missing its pinnacles has a peal of 5 bells with the three oldest dating from c1450. which are rung from the floor of the church. Four were recorded in 1864;
Bell 1 – “lebs ois plaudit ut me tam sepius audit,” (The people rejoice the more they hear me).
Bell 2 – “Alexander Vagwell Church Warden T & P Exon 1674
Bell 3 – “Ste toma ora pro nobis,” (St. Thomas pray for us).
Bell 4 – “Est michi collatum ihc istud nomen amatum,” (To me is given Jesus that beloved name).
The 5th "Peace" bell was placed in the 1920s as a thanksgiving after the war.
Sadly by the 1970s the bell frame had become seriously unsafe and to avoid a collapse bell ringing stopped and the bells went silent for the next 20 years. Thanks to a concerted local fund raising effort which was boosted by a grant from the Millennium Commission the bell frame and its bells were restored in 1998. At the same time the tower was cleaned and the early plaster and bitumen lining removed the result of which is now a fine view of the tower’s inside. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/241k0B9KE8 Like many other churches there was some concern as to the strength of the tower and to ensure its stability an iron band was placed around it in the 1800s carried out by a local blacksmith Tom Hill of Throwleigh which is still visible near the top of the tower, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/45s9vtW337
Over the centuries the 15c screen has undergone various changes, it is thought that for some reason it was taken down and rebuilt sometime in the 1500s. During this process a large cross was removed from it in accordance with the demands of the Reformation. In 1853 the main section of the screen was repainted at which time the colour scheme was changed from gold, white, red and green to simply red, gold and blue. At that time the lower panels were embellished with transfers depicting various saints. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/ix72qsz721
The 15c font is topped by a wooden cover made in 1843 by Charles Finch, the parish clerk. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/F3j9X6PmY6
In 1853, John Aggett carved the granite pulpit and lectern and later the reredos in 1868 which was originally installed in Chagford church.
The chancel has recently undergone a scheme of renovation which included the laying of a new floor which made local headlines. During this work a small stone came loose revealing a late medieval crypt inside which were 2 coffins. After lowering a camera through the gap it was realised that one of the coffins was made of what appeared to be lead and of adult size. The other coffin belonged to a child and was made from oak wood. The photographs also revealed that under the chancel screen was an arched doorway and a set of blocked steps which would have led up into the central aisle. At this point it was decided to take the investigation no further and the loose stone was mortared back in-situ. However as work carried on another and much larger hole appeared due to the weight of the workmen and their wheelbarrows. This time the hole was big enough for a person to get through thus allowing access to the crypt when it was discovered that the supposed coffin was in fact made from galvanised metal not lead. Inside this was another coffin made from oak on which was a brass plate which named the occupant as Aurthur (sic) Whipham who lived from 1810 to 1882 who had in 1844 inherited the manor from his father Thomas who had bought it , and also served as rector. It is thought that the child’s coffin belongs to one of his daughters, possibly Carla who died at the age of five months in 1851, (In 1863 the rector, Arthur Whipham, submitted a petition for divorce from his wife on the grounds of her alleged adultery with Philip Rowe, a farmer's son from Berrydown farm, Gidleigh. They were caught in bed together at the rectory by P.C. James Bird of the Devon constabulary).
The pipe organ sits at the back of the south aisle. It was built by Murdoch, Murdoch and Company of London and comprises 5 stops, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/6SL23Pnb44
The wall that now stands around the church was built sometime in the 1800s and was built from the recycled stone from the local Poor House - It was erected at the behest of the Rural Dean who was appalled that some of the villagers hung their washing on the tombstones to dry
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©2013 Daniel Novotny, Devon Fish (2). Transparent Watercolor on Paper, 38 x 56 centimeters, 15 x 22 inches.
Looking east down the south aisle rebuilt & refurbished after the disastrous fire of 1688 destroyed the 1529 church.
The Cruwys family pew, has behind it pews for servants at the manor house.
Some have names printed on them showing where families sat.
The box pews in the nave were available for rent at rates varying from a sixpence to a shilling per year. One seat is reserved for girls under 14 and another for young boys under 16.
- Church of the Holy Cross, Cruwys Morchard Devon
Roger Cornfoot CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5673853
Looking very smart in its traditional Grey Cars livery is Devon General 3320 (AFJ 740T) a narrow Plaxton bodied Bristol LH, seen here at Torquay depot.
Looking across the fields to the village of Hemyock in Devon
Lewis Clarke CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6429141
19c Pulpit in Gothic style
- Church of All Saints, Culmstock Devon
Chris Kinnersley www.google.co.uk/search?q=culmstock+church+devon&sca_...
Church of St John the Baptist, Bradworthy Devon built of random rubble local stone. It was originally dedicated to St. Peter. +++
Before the Conquest the manor was held by Tovi. At the time of 1086 Domesday Survey, it had passed to Ralph de Pomeroy. Ralph sold it in 1198 to William, Lord Brewer in whose family it passed, by successive female heirs, to Mohun, Strange, and Stanley, Earl of Derby: William Bruer was one of the most powerful nobleman of his day and was a favourite of 4 successive monarchs - Henry ll, Richard, John and Henry lll. On King Richard's going to the Holy land, he was, with the bishops of Durham and Ely, and Hugh Bardulph, appointed to the government of the realm. King John granted him many manors, and Henry lll made him sheriff over 12 counties. He founded the abbeys of Tor and Dunkeswell.
King John granted a fair to be held here on St John's Day.
William, Lord Brewer in 1198 gave the church to Torre Abbey whose Canons served here for a short time - later in 1240 Bishop Brewer (Lord Brewer's nephew) made the living a Vicarage. The first vicar firmly recorded is John Battyn, instituted in 1328, although R. de Bosco is mentioned earlier as a vicar.
Originally a small late Norman building, it was enlarged in the 13c in the Early English cruciform pattern, with a shallow north transept where the manoral pew known as the Berridon pew of the Griffin family was later situated, west tower and north & south porches.
The south transept roof is higher than the nave with offsets on tower indicating the pitch of the earlier nave roofline,
After severe damage by lightning in 1395, a rebuilding was completed by the year 1400, with an enlarged chancel, mainly in the Perpendicular style as we see it today.
The fine crenellated and unbuttressed 3-stage tower was added c 1500.
The Norman 12c square topped font survives www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/qLP90vWz5H
On the south side of the chancel is a piscina with drain and pointed arch, on each side there is a smaller recess probably used for the cruets. The 18c / 19sc baluster communion rails , possibly reused. In front of the communion rails are a large number of old Barnstaple encaustic tiles with designs of the rose, lion, pelican, etc., these tiles also extend down the chancel aisle, and are placed on the sides of the nave aisle. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/04a3dsjT41
Over the south door are the arms of George lll
The organ is at the west end of the church, rather blocking out the light from the west window.
c1700 Octagonal pulpit with carved frieze of winged putti and acanthus volutes, and a dado of bay leaves, turned balusters where originally there were panels www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/19Y753XXSX
The registers date: baptisms, 1596; marriages, 1558; burials, 1558.
Arthur Mee says there is a curious gap in the list of vicars in the 17c when it would seem that a Mr Lang "neither died nor resigned." He adds "it is a pity he is there at all as he was a forger and a threatener who went to prison for his misdeeds"
After it was gutted by fire, the church was restored in the 18c. Restored & reroofed in 1883-4 with new south porch
Restored again and reseated in 1840
Restored and reroofed 1883-4, tower restored 1897.
+++ Nearby is St Peter's Well www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312... used as a water supply in the past. which was renovated for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012 by local resident Les Tanner, with help from Sean Heard.
Picture with thanks - copyright www.achurchnearyou.com/church/9046/
Exeter High Street.
Originally delivered in the Red & Yellow livery, Devon General 10 (A930 MDV) is seen here after repainting in Green & Gold.
Working route A to Alphington, it is a Carlyle converted Ford Transit.
Blue & Silver 723 (C723 FFJ), converted by Robin Hood, can also be seen.
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Church of All Saints, Thurlestone Devon dates from the 13c.
with major rebuilding in 15c, a repair in 1685 and restoration in 1904 by G. Fellowes Prynne.
The tower built later c 1450 , however by 1848 to correct a severe list to the east, the top 20 feet was removed and rebuilt with a weight tilt to the west. Inside are six bells, the 6th being added in the early 20c
The first stone church was built in 1230 on top of the old wattle and daub church of c 900AD, a narrow building (the main nave and chancel of the present church www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/uuML169W23 ) together with a low tower.
The earliest features are the 13c windows in the chancel and the 12c font but most of the structure dates from a major rebuild in the 15c ;
In 1400 the Lady Chapel was built on the right of the High Altar and in 1450 the church was widened, doubling its size and putting in a complete roofed south aisle between the granite pillars and a new South wall. The squat tower was also replaced with a new one three times as high. Of the ancient beams in the chancel, a few of the ribs of the oak panel work and 12 of the original 15 bosses of 1450 remain.
The south aisle was apparently given new windows in 1685. At this date the north wall of the nave was rebuilt and the vestry might also date from this period.
On the choir side of the old organ case which separates the chancel from the lady chapel , there is an inscription copied from a mediaeval one near Winchester: ‘Amor non clamor ascendit in aures Dei' - 'Love and not shouting reaches the ears of God.' On the other 'Magnificat anima mea Dominum' : 'My soul doth magnify the Lord'.
The red sandstone of the big chalice-shaped Norman font came from a quarry near Paignton at the end of the first millennium. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/RJX283v1r0
The beautiful carved Rood of the Crucifixion carved by one of the actors in the Oberammergau Passion play, was given in 1919 by Mrs. Francis Chandos-Pole in memory of her husband and hangs exactly where the ancient rood must have stood upon the top of the now lost rood-screen.
There are memorials to the Stephens family of Clannacombe in the Lady Chapel, including one in memory of 3 deaths in the year 1658 - the father Thomas Stephens, his daughter Amia Pearse & her baby son Thomas. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/J2Rk04aM51
Over the Priest's door kneels there is the kneeling effigy of Henry Luscombe, rector heree for 37 years who died in 1634. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/vgLGnygkL8
The south porch built in the early part of the 16c, once had a tiny room over it. The floor has now been removed
On the top right of the inner doorway, is a very worn stone carving of a man, girded with a sword, holding a tree in one hand and a ring - possibly referencing a local dignitary's wedding, at a time when the first part of the wedding service took place in the porch. Later it was said its flat roof was often the hiding place for more than 50 barrels of smuggled French brandy.
An endowment trust fund was set up in 1995 to help maintain the fabric and surrounds of the church. The PCC is extremely grateful for the considerable help of the Friends over past years in contributing to major repairs, including re-roofing the church, new lighting and latterly the enormous task of repairing the tower.
The churchyard is also maintained by a group of volunteers and is open for burials.
Picture with thanks - copyright David Smith CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5028193
Entering Newton Abbot Bus Station after working a journey on route 12 is Devon General 804 (E804 WDV), a Mellor bodied Ford Transit. Yet to receive fleetnames, this is a far cry from the Scania E400's that currently operate route 12.
First 2011 senior shoot! Devon is awesome. We got a ton of sick shots! This is just one of my favorites.
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Nikon D90
18-105mm VR
Strobist: SB-900 w/ shoot through umbrella, camera left, triggered wirelessly
Dartmouth Steam Railway
The Riviera Line
Paignton Station
Devon Belle
The Devon Belle was a luxury express passenger train which ran between London Waterloo station and Ilfracombe and Plymouth in Devon in the years from 1947 to 1954.
This is one of two distinctive observation cars that were used on the service.
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Shot my first wedding this weekend with these two! Congrats guys, if your life together was as fun as the wedding, you'll be in great shape. More pics up at: kurtmillerphoto.smugmug.com/Blog/People/Devon-and-RJ-Wedding.
Parked at the rear of Torquay depot, awaiting a new front nearside upper deck window and a repaint back into poppy red is now preserved Devon General Bristol VRT 563 (ATA 563L)
Church of St. Augustine, Heanton Punchardon Devon overlooks the Taw & Torridge estuary with views to Lundy and Hartland . The village is partly named after Robert de Pont-Chardon who came over with William the Conqueror and held the tenancy of "Hantone" from Baldwin de Meules "the Sheriff" - His descendants in the direct male line were here until the end of the 13c, when Sir John Punchardon divided his estates between his 3 daughters when it came by marriage to the Beaumont family whose heiress later carried it again by marriage to the Bassetts of Heanton Hall. They stayed until 1852 when they sold the estate to Sir William Williams
It is believed there has been a church on this site since the 11c or 12c. . - Curiously there is an account in the patent rolls of 1281 - 1292 that there was a fire here c1285 which must have been a very serious affair, if we may judge from the fact that some 90 persons were charged with arson and robbery. The names of the prisoners which included the parson of the church and other clergy - The conflagration was an outcome of the feud between Bishop Quivel (?) and John Pycot who claimed to be Dean of Exeter, which resulted in the murder of Walter de Lechlade, the Precentor.
The present building is of 13c origins, but mostly 14c Early English. The tower and aisle are of coursed dressed stone with some laced stone in 2nd tower stage. Nave, chancel, south and north porches are of random rubble
It consists of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch, and embattled three stage west tower with internal stair turret on the north side, containing 6 bells cast in 1829 in Bideford. The treble was recast when the church & tower were restored and the bells rehung in 1889-90 at the expense of Sir William Williams
Nave and chancel probably incorporate earlier fabric but both heavily remodelled in late 15c / early 16c when the west tower and north aisle were added. Windows in north aisle suggest possibly early 17c refenestration and 1675 datestone below east window may indicate rebuilding of gable end wall of chancel. North aisle arcade rebuilt and piers remodelled in 18c & early 19c . Nave and chancel refenestrated in 19c .
The nave and chancel are separated by a richly carved screen which has been restored, but a good deal of the original work remains.
The earliest survivors are the Norman font www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7Wb8252367 & ancient south plank door www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/8hZ12WsE2r
In the chancel as requested in his will is the finely carved tomb surmounted by a rich canopy of Richard Coffin 1523 who was master of the Horse for Henry Vlll. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/8vBQ3f9eAh This may have also been used as an Easter Sepulchre. There are also here two wall monuments to the Ballyman / Bellarmine family.
The chapel on the north side of the chancel contains several monuments to 4 generations of the 17c & 18c Bassetts www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Qra12VUeaS
The vestry is not open to the public but considered to be part of a very early church, one where the incumbent lived 'above the shop'. The evidence of an upper floor is still easily seen. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/5ks082X4K6 The date 1704 is written in the plaster of a filled in fireplace that once heated the upper floor. No external access route to the upper floor has been found, so this may have been internally by ladder. !
The registers date: baptisms, 1657; marriages, 1559; burials, 1559.
There is a strong musical tradition. There is a robed, four part choir of 12 which helps to lead the music in worship. Most Sundays there is an organist or else a laptop system of recorded music or CDs with hymns projected onto screens.
Previously before the introduction of an harmonium in 1868, worship was lead by a choir of about twelve boys and girls with an adult leader, accompanied by a small band of a fiddle, clarinet and trombone. The band sat in the gallery at the west end of the church, concealed by curtains until the hymn was announced.
In 1954 the harmonium was replaced by the present organ, installed in memory of rector Rev. Arthur Desmond Shaw.
Additional to the organ now, a keyboard is sometimes used and occasionally a guitar.
During World War II, the parish churchyard was enlarged to accommodate a war graves plot on new ground. It now contains two burials of the First World War and 85 from the Second World War. It also has 38 post-war Royal Air Force burials and one Italian war grave. In total it has 126 active military personnel graves - all maintained by the War Graves Commission. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/nbsW36okpi
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A wintry morning outside the 'The White Hart' public house, Wilmington, East Devon shortly after 08.00 on Saturday 18th December 2010, sees Stagecaoch Devon Volvo B10M 52343 (P803 XTA) waiting to get out on Rail Replacement work.
Brought out from Exeter the previous evening to work the first trip in from Axminster, the vehicle eventually did a scratch 10.45am Axminster-Exeter St. Davids, in what turned out to be the only 'live' working of the Templecombe-Axminster/Exeter 'buses replace trains' scheduled for that week-end.
Due to the atrocious weather conditions, the engineering work was eventually cancelled by South West Trains
Church of St Mary, Hemyock Devon built of local flints and cherts, occupies a central position in the village bordering St Margaret's brook
Hemyock is the largest village on the Blackdown Hills. It has a very long history with prehistoric remains being found, from about 100 BC to well beyond. In the middle ages local iron ores were smelted in small bloomeries (furnaces) to produce pure iron.
In Saxon times the battle of Hemyock was fought at Simonsburrow between the native Britons and King Ime's Saxon army, which put an end (temporarily) to the Kings expansion to the west.
The name Hemyock could have originated from the British stream name "Samiaco" (meaning summer), other authorities suggest a Saxon origin from a personal name "Hemman" coupled with a Saxon word for a bend or a hook (occi).
Hemyock gave its name to the Hemyock Hundred, a central town surrounded by hamlets of 7 parishes, that was an administrative unit of local government during the Saxon period.
After the Norman conquest a castle, now a ruin, was built adjacent to the church.
From the 1500's to the early 1800's much of the parishes wealth came from the production of wool.
The church has had its dedication changed several times. In the 1400s it was St Mary's, after the reformation St. George and by the mid 1700s it was St. Peter's, reverting to St. Mary's in the 1760s
The first written record dates from the year 1268, but it is obvious that parts of the building are much older. Remains of Norman arches may be seen in the interior walls of the tower and it would appear that the first church on the site could have been cruciform in shape with the tower at the centre.
Originally the church had a spire on top of the tower, but it was removed in the late 1600s and this may be the reason why the present tower is not very high.
It now consists of a chancel, north east chancel chapel & vestry, nave, north and south aisles and early Norman three stage battlemented west tower with inset south porch .
Inside the building, the bowl of the font survives from 1200. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/v7S42amH60
The southern aisle was formally a chantry dedicated to St. Katherine. There is a piscina there and hagioscopes on each side of the chancel arch give a view of the main altar to the side altars
Partial rebuilding of 1847 by Richard Carver of Taunton included a new west gallery replacing two older ones, new windows & furnishings. 15c alterations were largely destroyed, but Carver's work respected certain intriguing peculiarities of the medieval ground plan which was retained along with the tower .
The tower has early Norman arches to the north, south and east. There is no evidence of a west arch, although it may have been destroyed when the late 19c west window was inserted. The north arch alone is visible externally. There is no masonry joint between the west face of the tower and the adjoining south tower porch, and the quoining of the south-west angle of the tower stops at the level of the parapet of the porch. This suggests that it is a contemporary build. The north-west angle has been disturbed by the addition of a buttress. Furthermore the south wall of the tower porch is on the line of the old nave south wall, the present south arcade, ie. the tower arch facing the nave and the chancel arch are off centre to the present nave. The possibility of the west tower having once been a crossing tower has been suggested, although the close proximity of a stream to the west, and the lack of any evidence of a west tower arch disputes this . The puzzle is complicated further by the existence of a medieval flight of stairs that runs from the tower porch to what is now a west nave gallery; the point at which the stairs enter the nave west wall is between the line of the present south arcade and the south impost of the Norman east tower arch. Where can they have led originally? Possibly there was a screen intended to house relics www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/W4wb74mK82.
The registers date from 1635.
On the west wall are the lists of the village charities, together with a list of the "Dog Whippers" who kept the church free of dogs during services
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Waiting at Hill Head is Devon General Warship class convertible open top Bristol VRT "Revenge" 936 (VDV 136S). It is in its winter guise with roof on, the remnants of a snowfall can be seen in the background. This particular trip was the meal relief to the main Kingswear winter duty.
Church of St. James, Christow Devon consists of a chancel, nave, north and south aisles, south porch and west tower
According to the church website the origins go back to the 13c, with the present building dating largely from the 15c, with substantial repairs in the 17c and 19c'.
The three stage granite ashlar west tower is a Gothic Survival addition of 1630 and has a ring of eight bells. - John III and Christopher IV Pennington of Stoke Climsland, Cornwall cast six bells in 1785. Afterwards John Taylor & Co of Loughborough added a new treble and second bell in 1973
The rood screen is without groining is coloured and gilt, and the lower panels are painted in blue and red ornamented with gilt stars. The scroll moulding on the main mullions and around the arcade is of unusual design. Part of the screen, once across the south aisle, is now fitted as a tower screen.
The plaster Royal arms are preserved on the wall of the north aisle with the inscription:— Tho: Moore, Chr: Hoore Wardes. 1682. flic.kr/p/UzhPLE
The seats in the aisles are old with carved ends; the drum pulpit is late 19c with carved panels incorporating 16c blind tracery. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/b8tUM62WvC ]The 12c square Norman font thought to be carved out of hollowed stone capital www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/hT2X1BypU0
The east window in the chancel is in the memory of Edward, 4th Viscount Exmouth of Canonteign House nearby, who died October 31st 1899 during whose tenure as lord of the manor, the church was restored in 1862 to designs by the architect Edward Ashworth which included rebuilding the chancel, the porch, adding the vestry, reseating, and repairing and repainting the screen. His forbears earned their fame as Admirals in the Royal Navy at the time of Nelson and their monuments here include Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth ahttps://www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/XA5q85k790 nd his son the 2nd Viscount, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/MxE59XU975 both of whom died in 1833.
The window at the east end of the south aisle is in memory of members of the Woolcombe family.
Nathaniel Bussell, the parish clerk, is said to have been shot by the Roundheads on February 19th 1631, (a very early date for the Civil War !) and to have been buried in the porch where he fell, because he refused to deliver up the keys of the church for the building to be ransacked. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/muFD1P310h
The registers date: baptisms, 1557; marriages, 1555; burials, 1557.
Picture with thanks - copyright Chris Andrews CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5119505
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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