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Church of St Leonard, Halwell Devon - "Hagewile" in the 1086 Domesday Book, its name coming from the Old English halig: "holy" plus wylle: "well".‘ Holy Well which is still to be found in the churchyard.
A place of habitation since the Iron Age, the parish contains the earthwork enclosures of the 2 hillforts of Stanborough Camp and Halwell Camp. It was important in the 10c as one of 4 burhs or fortified settlements, established in Devon by Alfred the Great to defend against invasion by the Vikings - According to the 10c Burghal Hidage document Halwell's town wall was 1,237 feet long and the garrison consisted of 300 men who could be drawn from the surrounding district in the event of an attack. However by the 11c it had lost this position to Totnes after the Noman castle was built there in 11c
According to William Pole d1635, from the reign of King Edward I the manor was the seat of the de Halgawell family, who were here for several generations. Sir John Halgawell / Halliwell was Steward of the Duchy of Cornwall under Henry VII (1485-1509), also Admiral of the Fleet and a Knight of the Body. His son was Richard Halgawell, the last in the male line, who married Joan heiress of John Norbury of Stoke in Surrey. His daughter and heiress was Joan Halgawell, who married Edmund 1st Baron Braye 1539 of Eaton Bray in Bedfordshire. Her eventual heiress and inheritor of the manor was the second of her 6 daughters, Elizabeth Bray 1573 wife of Sir Ralph Verney 1546) flic.kr/p/9gpAtR at Aldbury Herts whose heraldic robe has the 3 goats argent of Hallighwell
By the 13tc there are mentions in parish records of a religious building here. In one document dated 1274 a chapel is mentioned as a daughter building to nearby Halberton .
A mention in 1536 must be the existing late 15c rebuilding but parts of the present church seem to have reused fabric of the older one especially in the doorframes and the west window of the tower which has intersecting tracery must date from about late 13c or early 14c . Therefore a church may have been built here soon after the 1288 returns which does not mention a church,
It now comprises a nave, chancel, north aisle of 5 granite bays with semicircular arches, three stage west tower with a 3-sided granite battlemented rood stair turret,. south porch & a small vestry In the angle of the chancel and north aisle . In 1553 there were 4 bells which were recast as 6 bells in 1763 by Pennington; the 4th bell was recast again in 1823 by Hambling of Blackawton.
The rood screen was removed in 1810. ( ! ! )
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales of 1870 described the building as " old and plain and recently was dilapidated."
Something had to be done, and In 1896 / 7 the church was restored when the whole building was reroofed. This appears to have involved the rebuilding of the south wall of the nave, reusing the 15c windows. A small vestry was added on the north side of the chancel in the angle with the north aisle. Also the south porch was rebuilt with a reset medieval doorframe similar to that of the west tower doorway .
The late 19c organ has painted pipes and a keyboard from the USA.
Later there was much refurbishment in early 20c when the carved oak altar, freestone reredos & altar rail were placed in the chancel
Jonathan Billinger CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1079066
Best viewed on black ( just press "L" on you keyboard).
The first sunshine we have seen in weeks. It only lasted a few hours. Then like so many things it faded into the mist.
Clayhidon is a village and parish in East Devon. The parish church is St. Andrews. The parish is in the Blackdown Hills and lies close to the Somerset border.
A SEPTA commuter train basks in the late day light as it prepares to make a stop at the Devon station. This portion of Amtrak's Harrisburg Line / Keystone Corridor is one of the few places left using ex-Pennsy CTC.
- Church of St John the Evangelist, Countisbury Devon
The early manor belonged to the abbot and convent of Ford.
The church now consists of a 3-bay nave with north aisle and south porch, chancel with lean-to north vestry, and unbuttressed 3 stage west tower.
The nave was rebuilt on the site of a previous church in 1796 with the south porch following soon after. There was further remodeling / refurbishment in 19c .
In 1832 the old chancel and tower still survived. Rev. Walter Stevenson Halliday began his house at Glenthorne nearby in 1829, and carried out much work on the estate.
The tower south-east pinnacle base is inscribed: "RVD WS /HALLIDAY / 1836", south-west pinnacle inscribed: "RVD W S /H / 1836" and north-west pinnacle inscribed: "W R / BUILDR".
suggesting the top stage was added at that date.
Rev Walter Stevenson Halliday also financed the rebuilding of the chancel & vestry & north aisle additions in 1846
According to the Exmoor Review Rev Halliday at that time purchased the c1700 chancel screen www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/SL6HuUbBiN from Chittlehampton church and also probably the late 15c bench end with carved chained swan www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/34t4259D88
An inscription states that the church roof was completely restored under the generous bequest of Miss Rose Nercombe in 1972
On 1 April 2013 the parish was abolished and merged with Brendon to form "Brendon and Countisbury".
It is now believed the Iron Age promontory fort of Wind Hill on Countisbury Hill was the site of the Battle of Cynuit in 878.
Chris McCauley CCL commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_John_the_Baptist_Church_(geograph_4467098).jpg
Devon, UK
Camera: Minolta Dynax 7000i
Lens: Sigma Zoom (I think 28-200mm)
Film: Fuji Super G 200
Scanned from the negative - Epson Perfection V100
Taken in Woolacombe Devon , if i remember rightly i used a cokin nd grad on this . but i took lots so could be wrong lol :)
Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Lens: Sigma 10-20mm f/4
Exposure: 20.7
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal Length: 10 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Cokin nd 4 soft grad
Explored #156 Aug 30, 2009. dont know why , but it only just shown in scout ? sept 17...
Holcombe Court, Holcombe Rogus Devon, the home of the Bluett family lords of the manor
Roger Bluett 1566 inherited Holcombe and began to rebuild Holcombe Court, which up to his day had been a simple one storeyed manor house. He enlarged it with a tower, a porch with the Bluett Coat of Arms emblazoned in stone, a Great Hall and a charming dovecote which remains unchanged to the present day.
Roger Bluett's grandson Richard 1614 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/665a9K , continued improving the Court in 1591, when the threat of a Spanish invasion was over. A handsome drawing room was built over the old kitchen with a fine fireplace. This room had its own separate staircase from outside and was used as a court room, with a private staircase to the Judge's room below. There is a long Gallery running the length of the building which was formed when the ceiling of the Great Hall was put in place. There are rows of cells along the gallery, thought to have been occupied by the daughters of neighbouring gentry, who came to be educated in domestic skills by the Lady of the Manor. The Court is noted for its early Tudor ceilings and chimney pieces and carving, and is an attractive example of a Tudor country house set in walled grounds.
Picture with thanks - copyright David Smith CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5111751
Bovisand beach, Devon. This amazing light was a result of a weather front clearing from the Atlantic at sunset, illuminating the 'ceiling' of cloud.
I met up with a good friend yesterday (Andy Farrer) and spent the day out shooting in Devon and Somerset.
We started at Blackchurch Rock for sunrise and finished up at Valley of Rocks for sunset.A very long and tiring day in very bright conditions for most of the day, but we had a great day out with the cameras.
We left my place at 2.00 am and arrived back at around 11.30 pm.
Church of St John the Baptist, Hawkchurch Devon built mostly of local Greensand chert rubble with later Victorian dressings of ginger-coloured shelly limestone with dark brown streaks, quarried at Ham Hill in Somerset.
The original name of the village was 'Hafoc’schurch' /
"Avekchurche" indicating the presence of a building in Saxon times which sadly does not survive.
The first recorded rector is 1295 when the church belonged to Cerne Abbey in the hundred of Whitchurch
The earliest visible component when the building comprised a nave & chancel only is the two centred chancel arch sitting on 12c responds, one with plainer scalloped cushion capital (south), www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/224714Ns66 the other with interlacing and fighting dragons at the base. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/L6y6kXJ1Z6
In the mid 12c the north aisle & arcade was added. The rebuilding of the south side with an aisle and arcade in the early English style came later c 1200
The 12c north arcade has wide double chamfered round arches, short round piers and square scalloped capitals. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/p9xe23sfKq The c1200 south arcade is much more ornate with fine leaf capitals with small figures. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/N9F774tN25 The eastern respond of the aisle has a more religious theme www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/5p374tTj80
The four stage tower was rebuilt in early 16c . It has a polygonal stair turret on the north side www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Q0992T403z
The major reconstruction of the church in 1859-62 involved the rebuilding of the choir and external walls of the aisles - The insertion of a taller clerestory in the nave allowed in more light and a new hammerbeam roofs were placed retaining the original external corbels which were reset www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/h6991vJV7H . The south porch was rebuilt, its south doorway still retains its early 13c shafts with leaf capitals www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/72Xf7D26u9 - all overseen by architect John Hicks of Dorchester & financed by the Rev. Edward Cay Adams who made sure all of the Norman work was saved. The writer Thomas Hardy was an apprentice here at this time.
In 1963 the east end of the south aisle was furnished and equipped "as a Lady Chapel in memory of the Briscoe family, descendants of the Revs Edward Cay Adams, priest, rector 1853 - 1873 & son William Pigott Cay Adams, priest, rector 1873 - 1878
Ray Jennings CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7637601
Passing along Torquay Seafront below Rock Walk, Devon General Bristol VR, DGR477S-623, arrives with a 118 service from Brixham in April 1990.
Registration: DGR477S
Fleet Number 623
New: 1978
Chassis: Bristol VRT/SL3/6LXB
Bodywork: Eastern Coach Works H74F
Route: 118 (Brixham-Torquay)
Location: Rock Walk, Torbay Road, Torquay Seafront
Date: April 1990
The 50-story Devon Energy Center in Oklahoma City was completed in 2012. It is the tallest building in the state.
Showing my wfe's knees outside the Tradesman's Arms pub. This scene looks just the same 50 years on
Taken on a Minolta SR-1 SLR camera with a 50mm f2 Rokkor lens
Time flies and it seems just a heartbeat since Volvo B9R Plaxton Panther 53604 (KX58 NBM) was delivered new for the Oxford to Cambridge service X5 but now here it is in its latest guise as a driver trainer with Stagecoach Devon, Exeter 20th November, 2018.
Immaculada is an OOAK Commission piece for a lovely lady down under. It is the perfect blend of Spring Summer (which you've already seen) and Fall Winter (Santita) collections. So it should be familiarity and anticipation of the unknown at the same time...
Not for Sale.
BR Standard Class 4MT 4-6-0 75014 steams through the Devon countryside near Greenway Halt on the Paignton & Dartmouth Steam Railway during a Timeline Events photo charter.
Looking west from the pulpit, down the Norman nave with was restored & refurbished in 19c
Church of St Peter, Berrynarbor, Devon
Picture with thanks - copyright Basher Eyre CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4549280
Church of St Paul, Filleigh Devon - The name of the village derives from the name of a monk, Saint Fili, who founded a church here in Saxon times.
According the 1086 Domesday Survey "Baldwin the sheriff has 1 estate which is called Filleigh, which Osfrith held on the day that King Eadweard was alive and dead, and it paid 〈geld〉 for 4 virgates. 8 ploughs can plough these. Of it Baldwin has 1 virgate and 3 ploughs in demesne and the villans 2 virgates and 6 ploughs. There Baldwin has 9 villans and 6 bordars and 3 slaves and 3 swineherds, who pay 15 pigs, and 14 beasts and 10 pigs and 60 sheep and 10 acres of woodland and 7 acres of meadow and 30 acres of grazing-land; and it is worth 3 pounds a year and, when he received it, it was worth as much 40 shillings"
The manor was held in the 14c by a family which took its name from the manor, de Filleigh
On default of male heirs, the manor passed by marriage to the Denzell / Densyll family. .
In 1454 Sir Martin Fortescue 1472 second son of Sir John Fortescue 1485, Chief Justice, of Ebrington Manor Gloc. flic.kr/p/2dxAxJD married Elizabeth Densyll 1508 a daughter and co-heiress of Richard Densyll of Filleigh, and thereby the manor became a possession of the Fortescue family, together with substantial other Densyll manors including Weare Giffard, Buckland Filleigh, Combe and Tamerton. Elizabeth Denzell survived her first husband and remarried to Sir Richard de Pomeroy 1496 of Berry Pomeroy in 1473 flic.kr/p/ywRdcg
The old mediaeval church was demolished by Hugh Fortescue, Lord Clinton in c 1730.
The only surviving objects from the old church are two monumental brasses on the north wall of the nave which formerly adorned the now lost tomb-monument of Richard Fortescue 1570 flic.kr/p/iEdToj & his brother in law Sir Bernard Drake 1586 flic.kr/p/iFRa23
The present parish church was built in 1732 on a new site 1/2-mile west of the new Palladian mansion of Castle Hill which was then being built by Lord Clinton.
Originally Classical in style, It was re-modelled in 1876–1877 to the plans of Clark of Newmarket, (Gilbert Scott having been consulted) in 1864, this Victorian remodelling converted the church into the Norman style, with the addition of a south aisle, now the "Fortescue Chapel", and a new chancel in the form of an apse. There are several memorials to members of the Fortescue on the walls , furnishings and in stained glass..
It now consists of a west tower, nave, short transepts, south aisle and apsidal chancel.
The nave, north transept and chancel windows are all round-arched single lights with Norman style mouldings applied to the original Georgian openings, The gabled south porch has an external stair turret to the organ gallery on west side. It is topped with a large wheel window above doorway with fishscale patterning to the tympanum.
The north transept terminates in the Fortescue vault with embattled parapet, inscribed on the north side 'to memory of Hugh 3rd Earl Fortescue and of 4 generations of his ancestors',
The two stage tower was topped with a spire in late 19c.
Inside there are semi-circular headed arches in Norman style to tower and transepts, and to 2 bay south aisle arcade with scalloped capitals. The ceiled wagon roofs throughout have panels painted with foliated decoration, were painted by Lady Susan Fortescue c. 1880.
The chancel apse ceiling is panelled in leaf patterns of multicoloured stone, continued as mosaics behind the choir stalls, with inscription to George Damer, 7th son of Earl Fortescue, lost in HMS Wasp in the China seas 1887.
After the chancel had been added with an apse it needed new windows, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/3vQPT97tr8 which were dedicated to Georgiana, Countess Fortescue 1866, the wife of the 3rd Earl who also had a new font dedicated to her memory. (The original large 4 light east chancel window was moved to the south aisle during the 1876-7 restoration and filled with stained glass in memory of the first Earl Fortescue. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/603uVc6HTT)#
The most unforgettable monument is to one year old Diana Fortescue as she is being lead heavenward by 2 angels
Roger Cornfoot CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6287852
Church of St Leonard, Halwell Devon - "Hagewile" in the 1086 Domesday Book, its name coming from the Old English halig: "holy" plus wylle: "well".‘ Holy Well which is still to be found in the churchyard.
A place of habitation since the Iron Age, the parish contains the earthwork enclosures of the 2 hillforts of Stanborough Camp and Halwell Camp. It was important in the 10c as one of 4 burhs or fortified settlements, established in Devon by Alfred the Great to defend against invasion by the Vikings - According to the 10c Burghal Hidage document Halwell's town wall was 1,237 feet long and the garrison consisted of 300 men who could be drawn from the surrounding district in the event of an attack. However by the 11c it had lost this position to Totnes after the Noman castle was built there in 11c
According to William Pole d1635, from the reign of King Edward I the manor was the seat of the de Halgawell family, who were here for several generations. Sir John Halgawell / Halliwell was Steward of the Duchy of Cornwall under Henry VII (1485-1509), also Admiral of the Fleet and a Knight of the Body. His son was Richard Halgawell, the last in the male line, who married Joan heiress of John Norbury of Stoke in Surrey. His daughter and heiress was Joan Halgawell, who married Edmund 1st Baron Braye 1539 of Eaton Bray in Bedfordshire. Her eventual heiress and inheritor of the manor was the second of her 6 daughters, Elizabeth Bray 1573 wife of Sir Ralph Verney 1546) flic.kr/p/9gpAtR at Aldbury Herts whose heraldic robe has the 3 goats argent of Hallighwell
By the 13tc there are mentions in parish records of a religious building here. In one document dated 1274 a chapel is mentioned as a daughter building to nearby Halberton .
A mention in 1536 must be the existing late 15c rebuilding but parts of the present church seem to have reused fabric of the older one especially in the doorframes and the west window of the tower which has intersecting tracery must date from about late 13c or early 14c . Therefore a church may have been built here soon after the 1288 returns which does not mention a church,
It now comprises a nave, chancel, north aisle of 5 granite bays with semicircular arches, three stage west tower with a 3-sided granite battlemented rood stair turret,. south porch & a small vestry In the angle of the chancel and north aisle . In 1553 there were 4 bells which were recast as 6 bells in 1763 by Pennington; the 4th bell was recast again in 1823 by Hambling of Blackawton.
The rood screen was removed in 1810. ( ! ! )
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales of 1870 described the building as " old and plain and recently was dilapidated."
Something had to be done, and In 1896 / 7 the church was restored when the whole building was reroofed. This appears to have involved the rebuilding of the south wall of the nave, reusing the 15c windows. A small vestry was added on the north side of the chancel in the angle with the north aisle. Also the south porch was rebuilt with a reset medieval doorframe similar to that of the west tower doorway .
The late 19c organ has painted pipes and a keyboard from the USA.
Later there was much refurbishment in early 20c when the carved oak altar, freestone reredos & altar rail were placed in the chancel
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