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John Cunningham & Louise Palmer, married at the Old Rectory, Pyworthy in Devon on Saturday 13th September 2014. Photographer: Rogan Macdonald
A little closer to the mainland and this might have a bridge to it and a house on top like the island off Towan Beach in Newquay.
Church of St Andrew , Colyton Devon - Mainly rebuilt 15c / early 16c retaining c1200 work in lower parts of the tower and chancel.
15c nave its upper part and north and south arcades rebuilt in 1765 and 1816 keeps an early 14c east window. . The tower has 15c octagonal top stage .
Restored after a fire in 1933.
The church consists of chancel, nave, north and south aisles, and central octagonal tower. The east end of each aisle is screened off, forming a chapel. There is a priest's door in the chancel, and piscinas in the chancel, and north and south chapels. The south porch at one time had a parvise, but when there was a gallery in the south aisle an exterior staircase was made to give access to the parvise, and from thence to the gallery. This gallery has now been removed, and the parvise is used as a small gallery looking into the south aisle. The tower is reached through an exterior doorway to the south by means of a staircase and wooden gallery crossing the interior of the south aisle, and not adding to its beauty. The west window is fine, reaching almost to the ground, the doorway forming part of the window; the doorway is old, but the tracery of the window has been replaced with new, the part taken out being preserved in the east end of the churchyard.
The reredos, pulpit, and font are modern.
There are two stone screens in the church, those enclosing the chapels at the ends of the aisles. That enclosing the south, or Pole Chapel, is the best of the two, and is a very fine specimen of carved stone work; it consists of five bays, the upper parts filled with tracery. It was erected by Thomas Brerewood, vicar from 1524 to 1544. On the doorway are shields, one bearing a rebus of Brerewood — a briar tree [Erica arborea] — and the initials "T.B.; the other has a girdle and the initials "F.R. [plate 67a]. The screen on the north side [plate 67b] encloses the Yonge Chapel; it is a stone screen of Jacobean character and of good design. On the east wall of the Pole Chapel is the monument of Mary, wife of Sir William Pole of Shute, Knt., eldest daughter of Sir W. Periam of Fulford, Knt. She had four sons and five daughters (sculptured on the monument), and died May 2nd 1605, aged 38 years and 1 month. She was married to her husband 22 years and 10 months. In the same chapel is the elaborate monument of Sir John and Lady Elizabeth Pole. He was the first Baronet, and died on April 16th, and was buried at Colyton on July 13th 1658.
The most interesting monument in the church is on the north side of the chancel [plate 67c], removed here from its position in the north transept in 1818. It represents a female figure, beneath an elaborate canopy, with shields bearing the Royal and Courtenay arms. An inscription at the back of the tomb states that it is the monument of Margaret, daughter of William Courtenay, Earl of Devon, and the Princess Katherine [1479-1527], youngest daughter of Edward IV [r. 1461-1470 & 1471-1483], and that she was choked by a fishbone in 1512. This, however, is said to be a mistake, and that the figure represents Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Devonshire, daughter of John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset, eldest son of John of Gaunt [1340-1399], by his wife Margaret, daughter of Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent, half brother of Richard II [r. 1377-1399] and Alice Fitzhalan.
The first vicar recorded is Robert de la Hille, admitted 1237.
The registers date from 1538, and there are some interesting entries. The plague is referred to as commencing in November 1645, and ending in November 1646. There is also a license signed by John Wilkins, vicar, dated 1660, giving permission to Sir John Yonge, to eat flesh on account of his indisposition.
It has many monuments to the Pole family and Margaret Countess of Devon
Plymouth is a port city and unitary authority in South West England. It is located on the south coast of Devon, approximately 36 miles (58 km) south-west of Exeter and 193 miles (311 km) south-west of London. It is bordered by Cornwall to the west and south-west.
Plymouth's early history extends to the Bronze Age when a first settlement emerged at Mount Batten. This settlement continued as a trading post for the Roman Empire, until it was surpassed by the more prosperous village of Sutton founded in the ninth century, now called Plymouth. In 1620, the Pilgrim Fathers departed Plymouth for the New World and established Plymouth Colony, the second English settlement in what is now the United States of America. During the English Civil War, the town was held by the Parliamentarians and was besieged between 1642 and 1646.
Throughout the Industrial Revolution, Plymouth grew as a commercial shipping port, handling imports and passengers from the Americas, and exporting local minerals (tin, copper, lime, china clay and arsenic). The neighbouring town of Devonport became strategically important to the Royal Navy for its shipyards and dockyards. In 1914, three neighbouring independent towns, viz. the county borough of Plymouth, the County Borough of Devonport, and the urban district of East Stonehouse were merged, becoming the County Borough of Plymouth. In 1928, it achieved city status. During World War II, due to the city's naval importance, the German military targeted and partially destroyed the city by bombing, an act known as the Plymouth Blitz. After the war, the city centre was completely rebuilt. Subsequent expansion led to the incorporation of Plympton, Plymstock, and other outlying suburbs, in 1967.
The city is home to 262,100 (mid-2019 est.) people, making it the 30th-most populous built-up area in the United Kingdom and the second-largest city in the South West, after Bristol. It is governed locally by Plymouth City Council and is represented nationally by two MPs. Plymouth's economy remains strongly influenced by shipbuilding and seafaring but has tended toward a service economy since the 1990s. It has ferry links to Brittany (Roscoff and St Malo) and to Spain (Santander). It has the largest operational naval base in Western Europe, HMNB Devonport, and is home to the University of Plymouth. Plymouth is categorized as a Small-Port City using the Southampton System for port-city classification.
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Grimspound, Devon 2011
Grimspound is a late Bronze Age settlement, situated on Dartmoor in Devon, England. It consists of a set of 24 hut circles surrounded by a low stone wall. The name was first recorded by the Reverend Richard Polwhele in 1797; it was probably derived from the Anglo-Saxon god of war, Grim (more commonly known as Woden, or Odin).
In 1893 an archaeological dig was carried out by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, which recorded many details of Grimspound as well as, controversially, making a reconstruction of the site.
Contents
1History
1.1Early descriptions
1.2Excavation
2Location
3Description
3.1The hut circles
3.2Other objects
4References
5External links
History
The site was first settled in about 1300 BC. The 24 hut circles are surrounded by a massive granite perimeter wall, which may have stood at 1.7 metres in places. The roundhouses, with an average diameter of 3.4 metres, were each built of a double ring of granite slabs with a rubble infill, a technique still used in dry-stone walling. Hut 3 has a surviving porchway, with the two jamb stones still upright, although the lintel has fallen.
There is evidence of human activity: artefacts include pottery, scrapers and pot boilers. Organic remains such as wood and textiles have not survived owing to the acid nature of the soil.
Early descriptions
The name Grimspound was first recorded by the Reverend Polwhele in his History of Devon of 1797. He called it "The seat of judicature" for the River Dart area, and also surmised that it was "one of the principal temples of the Druids. Other ideas about Grimspound include supposed uses as an Iron Age fort, an encampment for tin miners and even a Phoenician settlement.[1]
Grimspound was first mapped by A. C. Shillibear in 1829. An 1855 plan by Nick Whitely shows hut circles outlying the perimeter wall, unrecorded elsewhere.
Excavation
In 1893 the Dartmoor Exploration Committee began a dig at the site.[2] The dig, one of whose members was the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould, reconstructed some of the site, a move criticised by some of the Committee at the time and also by later researchers, including R. Hansford Worth.[3]
Location
Grimspound is located in the valley between Hameldown Tor and Hookney Tor, at 450 metres above sea level. The nearest village, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, is a few miles to the south.
Description
Eastern end of Grimspound
Grimspound's outer wall
The site is enclosed by a stone wall, interrupted by a large, paved entrance facing south, uphill towards Hameldown. The wall would have been substantial – in some places its ruins are more than 15 feet (4.5 m) in thickness. However, the site is of limited value from a defensive point of view, so the assumption is that the wall was to keep livestock in, and predators out. It is possible that it was topped by a hedge or fence.[4] On the northern edge of the site is the start of the West Webburn, which was the main water source for the settlement.
Grimspound's southern entrance
The entrance is described as "the most imposing of all" by Jeremy Butler.[5] It is a paved and stepped corridor 5.5 metres long and almost 2 metres wide, with megaliths and other large stones forming the sides. Butler states that it was not designed to exclude livestock.
Excavations at other sites on Dartmoor have shown that such walls were probably built by small teams of men working simultaneously on a section each, as shown by differences in building style; some evidence of this is visible here.[3] However, these may simply be due to the reconstruction work by the 1894 excavation (see below).
The hut circles
One of Grimspound's hut circles
Twenty-four stone hut circles have been officially recorded here, although there are probably remains of more within the enclosure, which has an area of over 16,000 square metres (four acres). Many of these hut circles feature L-shaped porches. The doorways are paved with naturally flat stones, and all face both downhill and away from the prevailing wind.
The 1894 excavation reported that the huts nearest the entrance (save for Hut 12) were devoid of signs of human habitation, and were therefore used for livestock or storage, as was hut 2 at the opposite side of the compound.
The huts range between 9 and 15 feet (2.7–4.5 metres) in diameter, with walls about 3 feet (1 metre) thick, made of upright granite slabs packed with an infill of rubble and possibly peat. Excavations at sites such as Holne Moor have shown that such huts had an interior plank lining.[6]
The hearth was variously located at the centre of the hut, or opposite the door. Ash from the hearths was found to be from oak and willow twigs. A lack of log remains and the presence of peat ash shows that by the time of Grimspound's occupation, the local forests had been replaced by enough peat buildup for it to be cut for fuel. Cooking holes contained granite pot boilers, pieces of stone heated in the fire and dropped into pots of water sunk into the ground (the pottery of the time not being fireproof).[7]
One of Grimspound's hut circles
To the right of each hut entrance is a raised, level area, which the Committee called a "dais" and which was probably the sleeping area.
Four of the huts (3, 7, 17 and 18) contain raised or upright stones, described as "anvil" stones, the purpose of which is unknown.[8]
Unlike many similar sites on Dartmoor, there is no obviously larger hut that can be identified as a headman's dwelling, although the Committee did suggest that a pillar outside Hut 19 could have meant that the headman lived there.[9]
Other objects
The acidic soil of Dartmoor has destroyed nearly all organic material; it is therefore difficult to tell what Grimspound must have been like during its occupation. A flint arrowhead found nearby, and the lack of querns for grinding cereals, hint at some dependency on goods from outside the area (flint is not local to Dartmoor). The Exploration Committee also declared that the clay used in pottery fragments did not come from a local source.[10]
Filleigh (NORTH DEVON) parish church of St Paul. Effectively the chapel to the Fortescues of Castle Hill
Devon works 20 hours per week at St. Anthony's Hospital in Pendleton in the restaurant as a food service associate. Nov. 2014. (photo: Lightflies)
The Denbury Millenium Tapestry is attached to the front of the west balcony. It was a community project and took local villagers 8 years to design and make. It covers the history of the village from 1100AD
The first panel covers the period to 1100AD. It includes elements of prehistoric life in nearby limestone caves; small Celtic fields on the hillside; two Celts praying at the Holy Well (now Halwell); visiting clergy from Tavistock, the mother abbey. The Domesday book which mentions ‘Deveneberie’ is being held by Aeldred, and he is seen crowning William the Conqueror; depicted in the same style as the crowning of King Harold in the Bayeux Tapestry. denbury tapestry 1
The second panel gives an impression of life here in the Middle Ages. The Saxon Church was enlarged, and the yew trees which now dominate the churchyard were probably planted before the church was dedicated in 1318. The Manor house was well established by this period. Strip cultivation is shown, together with orchards and beekeeping. Denbury was a thriving medieval town, and received its first Charter from King Edward I in 1285, for a weekly Wednesday market and a three-day fair in September.
The third panel depicts activities in the period from medieval times up to the 19th century. The foreground shows the weekly market on the village green, with people selling cider, fruit, sheep, cattle, ponies, ribbons, roast meat and milk. The Union Inn was a focal point for traders and travellers, as well as local people. Denbury was still an important local centre, at one time rivalling Newton Abbot. Inside the shed is a horse driven apple crusher, as found on most Denbury farms. The wheelwright is mending a broken cart and the smith is shoeing a horse. The labourers above the lime kiln fill it with stone and coal before it can be lit and converted into lime for the fields.
The middle (fourth) panel shows the interior of the church, surrounded by two side panels with inscriptions that are to be found round the Tenor bell in the tower. Great care was taken to ensure that the dimensions of the church were accurate, and to find ways of realistically depicting the stained glass windows and slate floor.
The fifth panel depicts the annual fair which was started in the 13th century and ran until 1866, when it was stopped by the prevalence of rinderpest, an infectious disease in cattle. The scene is set in the nineteenth century. The cart in the foreground is being loaded with bales of cloth, which was woven in the village for woollen mills in Newton Abbot. In 1841 Denbury listed a great variety of tradesmen, including 33 weavers. The buildings shown include the Church House Inn, the Baptist chapel, the village school and the Rectory.
The sixth panel shows the village green in the first half of the 20th century. There are two soldiers from World War One, and traditional activities of the time including the South Devon Hunt, Maypole dancing and a charabanc outing. Also shown are a horse-drawn rake, a steam elevator, a cider crushing house, and an aeroplane – an airfield on what is now the site of Channings Wood prison was briefly active in 1935.
The right hand (seventh) panel has elements illustrating village life in the second half of the 20th century: various styles of modern village houses, the village hall, a local nursing home, a playgroup, Bonfire Night, carol singers, a tractor, the prison, and the post office, now the only shop.
- Church of St Mary the Virgin, Denbury Devon
Devon Kane of Notre Dame Prep at Blue Chip Basketball's Super Saturday Shootout. Lit by two SB-800s, each mounted in the corners, attached to the side of bleachers. This is one of my first attempts to use flashes to shoot basketball, which I usually shoot with available light. Learn how to light at Strobist.