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Buckfast Abbey forms part of an active Benedictine monastery at Buckfast, near Buckfastleigh, Devon, England. Buckfast first became home to an abbey in 1018. The first Benedictine abbey was followed by a Savignac (later Cistercian) abbey constructed on the site of the current abbey in 1134. The monastery was surrendered for dissolution in 1539, with the monastic buildings stripped and left as ruins, before being finally demolished. The former abbey site was used as a quarry, and later became home to a Gothic mansion house.
In 1882 the site was purchased by a group of French Benedictine monks, who refounded a monastery on the site, dedicated to Saint Mary. New monastic buildings and a temporary church were constructed incorporating the existing Gothic house. Buckfast was formally reinstated as an Abbey in 1902, and the first abbot of the new institution, Boniface Natter, was blessed in 1903. Work on a new abbey church, which was constructed mostly on the footprint of the former Cistercian abbey, started in 1907. The church was consecrated in 1932 but not completed until 1938. The abbey continues to operate as a Benedictine foundation today, and is a registered charity under English law. As of 2020, the abbey has 13 monks
Taken from the top deck of a Bristol VRT, Devon General 839 (XTA 839) slowly makes its way down to Sennen Cove on 21st April 2025. A Willowbrook bodied Albion Nimbus
Former Methodist chapel c2009 to the present showing renovation work over the years. - Chevithorne Devon
Pictures with thanks - copyright Derek Harper www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1395815 Roger Cornfoot www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5197495
At Richmond Close, Sampford Peverell whilst taking part in the Devon General Remembered running day at Tiverton on 5th September 2021 was preserved DR817 (VDV 817) , a Metro Cammell bodied AEC Regent V.
Part of the Devon General Omnibus Trust collection
Devon Sawa speaking at the 2024 WonderCon, for "Chucky", at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
Queso Devon Blue (Devon). Leche de vaca pasteurizada, cuajo vegetal
Pasteurised cows' milk, vegetarian rennet.
Para leer más sobre este queso en castellano, visite www.mundoquesos.com/2008/06/devon-blue.html
To find out more about this cheese, see www.cookipedia.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Devon_Blue_cheese
Church of All Saints, Combeinteignhead, Devon
Grade II* Listed
List Entry Number: 1147932
Details
SX 9071 16/94
HACCOMBE-WITH-COMBE COMBEINTEIGNHEAD Church of All Saints
GII* Parish church.C12 font, medieval fabric partly C13,extended by aisles,probably in the C15,tower described as having had a Decorated west window but looks C15;restorations of 1851(date on porch)and 1887(architect R.M. Fulford).Coursed red sandstone with Beerstone and Ham Hill dressings;slate roof.PLAN:Nave,chancel,north and south transepts,three bay north and south aisles,west tower,north west porch, south east organ chamber.An illustration and descriptions of the church prior to 1851 indicate that the origins of the chancel and transepts are Early English(Thorne).The three bay aisles are probably C15,the date at which the tower may have been rebuilt or remodelled.Few Early English details survive,most of the windows are 1851 Perpendicular and the chancel was largely rebuilt and extended at the same date;the nave,south transept and aisle roofs were replaced and the north porch was rebuilt.A more sensitive restoration by Robert Medley Fulford in 1887 involved repairing the screen,a new timber chancel arch,stepping up the chancel,providing the north east organ chamber and re-seating the nave.EXTERIOR:Chancel largely 1851 with deep diagonal buttresses and a carved stone eaves cornice;three-light C19 Perpendicular east window with carved label stops,priest's door with moulded frame on south side,embattled 1887 organ chamber on north side with a three-light cusped north window.Diagonal buttresses to north and south transepts with C19 Decorated north and south three-light windows with carved label stops.Blocked opening on east wall of north transept,blocked lancet to east wall of south transept,visible from the interior.Three bay buttressed north and south aisles with C19 Perpendicular three-light windows.Battlemented west tower with diagonal buttresses,tall corner pinnacles and an embattled polygonal north east stair turret.Shallow-moulded west doorway below a three-light C19 Perpendicular west window.Two-light traceried belfry openings on all four faces,cusped one-light opening at bellringers' stage on the north side.North porch in westernmost bay of north aisle with an 1851 date on the label stop of the moulded outer doorway;diagonal buttresses,quartrefoil windows to the returns;C19 arched brace roof and good C19 inner door in a moulded door frame.INTERIOR:Plastered walls;1887 timber chancel arch;plain rounded tower arch;three-bay north and south arcades with octagonal piers and capitals and rounded double-chamfered arches;unusual junction between transept and aisle roofs,the aisle roof wall-plate over-sailing the transepts and supported on upward curving braces on corbels(q.v. Stokeinteignhead).It is not clear whether this is a copy of the medieval arrangement.Ceiled wagon roofs,mostly of 1851,with roll-moulded ribs and small uniform carved bosses,the chancel roof with cross ribs and a wall plate carved with cherubs' heads.Five-bay rood screen with renewed coving and narrow,sharply-pointed openings.C19 chancel fittings,the 1851 reredos with blind tracery and stone cresting flanked by gabled commandment boards. North and south stone seats to the sanctuary below heavily crocketted nodding ogee arches;low stone communion screen pierced with trefoils.1887 choir stalls with carved ends of an unusual profile.On the north side of the choir an 1887 stone canopied recess is associated with a two-light hagioscope into the transept.An arched opening into the chancel from the south transept,blocked in 1851,was re-opened as a hagioscope in 1887.The nave has a C12 font,probably re-cut,with palmette motifs on the bowl,saltire crosses decorating the rim and a heavy cable moulding above the stem;C19 timber drum pulpit with open traceried panels;set of late C19 bench ends.Dado tiling to the aisle walls,of a rather startling glazed pink,added in 1907.The north transept which became the Gregory Fokeray chantry in the C15,has a rounded,chamfered piscina in the east wall and four C15 benches with two frontals,the bench ends crowned with crouching animals and carved with figures and tracery.The south transept has a tomb recess in the south wall with a C17 slate ledger stone fixed beneath the arch.Monuments:Notable monument to the Hockmore family in the north transept,the detail large-scale and rustic and said to be modelled in local clay(Thorne).A rustic ogee arch above a chest tomb,the arch decorated with pomegranates and crowned by an archievement,the chest with armorial bearings in wreaths divided by bead and reel moulding and half-palmettes,with a brass inscription panel in a Purbeck matrix under the arch.The lid of the chest commemorates Gregory Hockmore,died 1571,the ogival arch is said to be 1613,commemorating Alice Hockmore(Thorne).Two large slate ledger stones with coloured armorial bearings in relief are fixed to the transept walls and commemorate William Hockmore,died 1626 and Gregory Hockmore,died 1655.A number of late C18 and C19 black and white marble wall tablets including a good late C19 tablet,gabled and crocketted,in the south transept signed T.H. Knight,Teignmouth.Stained Glass:Remnants of an 1850s or 1860s glazing scheme in the head tracery of the aisle and transept windows.1880s west window,probably by Drake of Exeter,east window 1905 by Drake of Exeter.Devon Nineteenth Century Churches Project.
Listing NGR: SX9018471535
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147932
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The first mention of a church All Saints Churchon this site occurs in a Bishop’s Register of 1259, when Sir Henry de Brattone was instituted as Rector. However, the fine Norman font, with its cable twist and star mountings, provides evidence of a church in the 11th century. The earliest parts of the present building, such as the east wall of the south transept, may date from this period.
Many of the carved oak rood screen dates from around 1450, while the Elizabethan carved bench ends in the north transept are among the best in the country. There are ancient memorial tablets, and a fine arched altar tomb. The restoration work of 1850 and 1887 includes windows depicting the Ascension and the Good Shepherd.
As the original title of the church is unknown, it was dedicated to ‘All Saints’ by the Bishop of Exeter in 1986. The church is open daily, and a service is normally held every Sunday.
A Peregrine Falcon (Tiercel, Male) on the South Devon Coast, England.
Using a Leica APO 77 with Sony compact W15