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One from last nights trip out. Poppy fields are few and far between here in Devon as a result this was my first time in a poppy field photographing poppies. It was a nice evening with a little bit of cloud arriving at just about the right time.
Cheers
Gary
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
Out under the imposing lychgate and onward to St Mary's square beyond
- Church of St Mary , Higher Brixham Devon
Tom Jolliffe CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2093573
Shaldon is a village and civil parish in South Devon, England. It is located on the south bank of the estuary of the River Teign, opposite the town of Teignmouth. The village has been described as "a quaint English drinking village, with a fishing problem" it is a popular bathing place and is characterised by Georgian architecture. In the 2011 Census, the parish had a population of 1,762. Its northern boundary follows the Teign estuary and its eastern boundary is the English Channel. It has a short boundary with the unitary authority of Torbay to the south, and its eastern border is with the parish of Stokeinteignhead.
- 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
The last photo from Day 1 of the Dartmoor break. Towards the end of the walk, we were rewarded with an incredible panoramic view stretching miles into the distance.
As you can see, the weather improved as the day went on (despite the forecast!!). It was one of the toughest 10 mile walks we've done, mainly because of the marshy and rocky terrain through large sections, but the route back down to the car was easy, much to our relief.
I'm exploring the extraction tools in my new PSCC. The're better of course, but it still takes some hand-on to get a good result.
Now I'm going to do a little tutorial about this picture.
Church of St. Winwaloe, East Portlemouth Devon sits at the top of the steep slope commanding views of the estuary below - It now consists of a nave, north and south aisle and transept, north porch and west tower.
It seems likely that there would have been an earlier 10c wooden church on this site built in the reign of King Athelstan, King Alfred’s grandson who had close contacts with Brittany, the birth-place of St. Winwaloe (462-532) who was a Celt whose parent had fled to Brittany from Wales to escape the Anglo-Saxons - The oval shaped shape of the churchyard is characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon period and the existence of a manor house here in 1086 mentioned in the Domesday Book supports this.
Not surprisingly no trace of an earlier church remains above ground. Anglo-Saxon churches did however sometimes have rooms under them and, in 2006, Stratascan carried out a survey using ground penetrating radar. This appeared to suggest there was indeed a room under the central part of the nave. However this was not supported by a series of core samples taken in 2012 nor by a second radar scan.
The first known reference to the church was in July 1181 in a Bull of Pope Alexander III listing the churches owned by Missenden Abbey. It is not known when the Abbey acquired St Winwaloe’s but Lady Alice de Dodbrooke successfully claimed it back in 1219.
This original 12c stone cruciform church had a nave, chancel and transepts but no tower, and was probably finished between 1150 and 1181 .taking about 10 years to build. This was possibly under the patronage of Hamo Fitz Ruald (born c1116), the father of Lady Alice
The two stage crenallated tower which has a five sided stair turret, was built between 1400 and 1450 - 5 bells were recast in 1912 by Taylor’s of Loughborough but the heaviest has hung in the tower since it was built and bears the Latin inscription, in 15c script, "Me melior vere non est campana sub ere" (There is no better bell than me under the heavens).
The two side aisles were added shortly after, followed by the porch. The external steps at the side of the porch lead to the parvis or priest’s room. As Portlemouth did not always have a resident priest, this room was used by visiting priests who came on horse-back to lead worship (the mounting block is in the bank opposite the lych gate)..
East Portlemouth used to be a much larger and more flourishing place than it is today; it was a port and ship-building was an important industry. It provided 4 ships and 90 men for the Crécy and Calais campaigns of 1346 and contributed at least one ship to chase the Spanish Armada in 1588. The ship-building, farming and fishing community would have provided the wealth to construct and maintain the church and Roger Champernoun, who became its patron in 1450, is thought to have provided the money for its rebuilding.
The glory of the church is the 15c medieval rood screen with good painting of 26 saints but the coving has been removed. Its early colour remains and the top of its arches are decorated by Tudor roses. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/5905B20P27 It was restored in 1934 under the direction of Sir Charles Nicholson . The new oak used in the restoration can be seen in several areas of the screen. This is most apparent on the chancel side as are burn marks on the wood near the top of the screen; these may indicate an attempt to destroy the screen by the Cromwellian forces encamped on Rickham Common in 1643-44. In its original form, vaulting would have projected forwards and possibly backwards to support a deck strong enough to carry choir boys for some services. Fragments of this decorative vaulting survive, nailed to the front of the screen arches.
The font is mid-late 15c and is carved with quatrefoils and shields www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/YH7dV15p72
There are no monuments or memorials
The church is approached through a churchyard whose graves include those of ship-wrecked sailors and smugglers. One 18c tombstone describes the murder of Richard Jarvis of Rickham by his apprentice girl who was burnt as a witch.
Near the lych-gate, is a 15c preaching cross, since converted to a sun-dial. The cross used to stand by the Rectory but was moved here in the 1980s. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/dU7Ai941Fr
In 1879 the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland re-organised the whole village. Many fishermen’s cottages were destroyed and their tenants dispossessed, while several farms and smallholdings were amalgamated into three 200 acre farms at East Portlemouth Village, Rickham and Holset. At its peak, the village had a population approaching 500 but this was drastically reduced by the re-organisation.
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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.
Fronting a busy line of buses on Torquay Strand we see CM Coaches mini Dennis Javelin, R902GJO, waiting to depart with an Exeter bound X46 service on a rather damp and dismal morning.
Company: CM Coaches of Exeter
Registration: R902GJO
New: 1998
Chassis: Dennis Javelin SFD
Bodywork: Plaxton Premiére C39F
Route: X46 (Torquay, Strand-Exeter, Paris Street Bus)
Location: Strand, Torquay
History: New to Pearce of Berinsfield. Later with Carmel Coaches of Northlew.
Exposure: 1/100 @ f6.3 200ISO
Date: 12 January 2017
Church of St John the Baptist, Broadclyst Devon
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the manor was burned down by Danish invaders in 1001
The manor was held by the Crown at the 1086 Domesday Survey, but was granted by Henry I. to the Novant family, from whom it passed to the Chudleigh, Arundell, Morice, and later the Aclands
The present church is mainly late 15c but retains some important 14c work. It is believed to have been erected during the episcopate of Edmund Stafford, 1395-1419, but the upper part of the tower was not completed until the reign of Henry VIll which has heraldic panels showing the arms of the king and the Chudleigh family at the top
It consists of a four stage west tower with 8 bells, nave and chancel with north and south aisles & south porch.
The nave is separated from the aisles by 6 arches on each side, the pillars having carved capitals, and the outer mouldings of the arches, which are studded with carving, spring from angels holding shields in the north aisle flic.kr/p/9yjYg7 and in the south aisle (with the exception of two at the east end) they spring from grotesque heads. flic.kr/p/9ygnJa The capitals have varied foliage designs. However one dated capital - 1576, ( 3rd south from west) - is markedly different from the others with masked faces, foliage and looped ropework.
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There is a priest's door and remains of a piscina in the chancel,
The north aisle east window is set in 14c stonework, the contemporary chancel sedilia also survives
Under an ornate carved canopy, flic.kr/p/xYcYNK lies the effigy of possibly Sir Roger de Nonant dc1330 flic.kr/p/xYdbVR whose family held the manor from the reign of Henry I. to that of Edward III (1100 - 1377)
In the north aisle chapel lies Sir John Ackland / Acland, with his 2 wives kneeling at each corner, on the tomb he built c 1613 before he died in 1620 flic.kr/p/xSBkiC
In the south aisle chapel is another large monument again built in the lifetime of the commemorated , Edward Drew 1598, Recorder of Exeter and London, sergeant-at-law, and his wife Bridget FitzWilliam flic.kr/p/xU8FPX
On the chancel north wall kneel Henry Burroughs 1605 & wife Elizabeth Reynell - flic.kr/p/xAZHwG Henry was the founder of Burrough's Almshouses in the village www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/8m9Dm4dAeB
The building was substantially restored in 1833-4 by Wills and again in 1882 by Edward Ashworth. (The castellated south porch dates to the 1834 restoration as are the roofs of the nave & chancel )
Stained glass placed in 1926 in the north aisle east window is to the memory of Ellen Acland who was killed in a road accident in 1924 aged 11 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/889UN10AYz - the thatched bus shelter was also erected to her memory by her parents www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/64K2t8Qt93
Copyright Peter Michel www.google.co.uk/search?q=broadclyst+church+devon+&so...
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 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
www.google.co.uk/maps/uv?pb=!1s0x486d1fa387a74b3d%3A0x124...
Topsham is a town near to Exeter in the county of Devon, England, on the east side of the River Exe, immediately north of its confluence with the River Clyst and the former's estuary, between Exeter and Exmouth. Although village-sized, the village has a larger than normal population at around 5,600.
Topsham was designated a town by a 1300 royal charter, until the Exeter urban district was formed. It is served by Topsham railway station on the branch line to Exmouth. In 2011 was the 150th anniversary of the railway coming to Topsham, on what is now called the Exeter–Exmouth Avocet Line.