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2018 Recognition of Entry to the Executive Ranks | Reconnaissance des nouveaux cadres de direction 2018
Photos by/par: Denis Drever - 07/11/2018
The Children's Queen: "A Jubilee Portrait Competition for Schools, Year 10 Entry From Millfield School"
Random bluestone path leads to front door. Acer 'Sango Kaku' on right, Rose 'Sally Holmes ' at entry
These were taking for a contest I am entering (wish me luck). I wont use them all because my stupid camera would not focus! and as you can tell half of the images came out blurry :(, mostly the Holly ones.
Location
Baker Street Station
Notes
Trying to get my AF to work properly, but it's obvious that I'll be manually focusing half the time, seeing as my camera is fecked.
A lane in Oxford which connects Gloucester Place and Magdalen Street. The Gloucester Arms pub stands on Friar's Entry.
Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1097088
Date first listed: 23-Aug-1955
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET Kingsteignton TQ12 3BQ
Parish church. C15, thoroughly restored in 1865 (Pevsner). Local grey limestone rubble tower and 3 westernmost bays of the south aisle; porch snecked local grey limestone, the rest red sandstone ashlar, probably C19. Freestone and granite dressings, slate roofs. The surviving medieval fabric (west tower and arcades), is C15 Perpendicular. The church appears to have been thoroughly rebuilt in 1865, including the external walling, and re-roofed. Plan of nave, chancel, north and south 5-bay aisles, west tower, south west porch, north east vestry. Chancel with set back buttresses with set-offs, some white stone dressings. 5-light C19 Perpendicular style east window with a hoodmould; chamfered priest's doorway with a rounded arch. Separately-roofed gabled north-east vestry with a C19 3-light Perpendicular style east window with a hoodmould. Some evidence of rebuilding on the east wall round the window, blocked opening on north side. Red sandstone north aisle with 3 buttresses and a rectangular rood loft stair turret with a lean-to stone roof. Four 4-light C19 Perpendicular windows with hoodmoulds; chamfered doorway with a rounded arch in the first bay from the west, 3-light C19 Perpendicular west window with hoodmould; brick chimney shaft on north west corner of the aisle. The 2 easternmost bays of the south aisle are red sandstone ashlar with some white stones, the 3 westernmost bays and the plinth throughout are local grey limestone rubble; set back buttresses. The 3-light east window and two 4-light eastern windows on the south side are C19 Perpendicular with heavily cusped tracery, the other aisle windows are more conventional C19 Perpendicular. The remnants of a door jamb are visible between the first and second bays from the east, west of this there is a string course. Snecked local grey limestone porch with a coped gable and rounded moulded outer doorway with a hoodmould. The inner face of the doorway has C19 cable moulding of uncertain date, C19 roof. Good circa C16 2 plank studded inner door in a doorway with a cranked head, the jambs and arch richly carved with vine foliage and the carving of the right hand jamb includes a hand. 3-stage battlemented west tower with corner pinnacles and set back buttresses, the grey limestone rubble is varied with some blocks of red sandstone. Internal north west stair turret with slit windows. The west face has an arched granite west doorway with an unusual moulding profile and an unusual uncusped 4-light granite west window with uncusped head tracery. The window, in a freestone architrave, may be an C18 replacement. Chamfered bellringers' opening on east face; 2-light chamfered belfry openings on all sides, clock on north face. Interior 5-bay C15 Beerstone arcades with rounded arches and piers with corner shafts. No chancel arch; ceiled waggon roofs to the aisles without bosses appear to be C19, similar chancel roof with bosses. Nave roof C19 unceiled waggon with bosses and a brattished wall plate. Plain rounded tower arch springing from plain imposts with secondary piers abutting the arch at the east. The chancel has a C19 crested stone reredos with a central cross carved in relief and local marble shafts on either side. the reredos is extended to north and south as panels carved with the symbols of the evangelists above a dado of local marble. C19 aumbry chancel furnishings C20. C19 pulpit, comtemporary with the reredos, open-fronted with 4 local marble octagonal shafts with good carved capitals. C15 octagonal font, the bowl carved with quatrefoils, the stem with flamboyant blind tracery. Sections of the wainscot of the C15 road screen survive with paintings of saints. The chancel has some good ledger stones used as floor slabs including one commemorating the Reverend Richard Adlam, died 1670 with a remarkable verse addressed to death: "Damn'd tyrant! Cant prophaner blood suffice?/ Must priests that offer be the sacrifice?/ Go tell the Genii that in Hades lie/ They triumph o'er this secret Calvary/ Till some just Nemesis avenge our Cause/and teach this hell-priest to revere good lawes"/. Wall monument on south wall commemorating Richard Carpenter, died 1697; a black marble inscription tablet with white marble pilasters, a broken pediment and urn above and armorial bearings below. Wall monument to Christopher Beeke, died 1798 on the north wall with a marble obelisk with an urn in relief and inscription panel below. The south wall of the south aisle has 2 white marble wall monuments signed "Nixon and Son" commemorating Samuel Whiteway, died 1837, and Samuel Whiteway, died 1847; 2 C17 wall monuments commemorating James Clifford of Ware, died 1685 and Thomas Hele of Babcombe. The north wall has 3 gabled Gothic Revival monuments: one commemorating the Reverend Nicholas Watts, died 1849, signed A. Mather, Gt. Marlborough St., London; the remaining 2 are a pair on either side of the north door, commemorating Lucinda Widborne, died 1855 and Charlotte Watts, died 1874. East window and east window of south aisle by the Hardman Company, easternmost window of south side by Drake of Exeter. Part of the early C16 rood screen was removed to the Chantry (formerly the vicarage) in the circa 1820s and is still there.
Listing NGR: SX8717472856
My entry in the New Year New You contest in SL - if you'd like to, please go to bit.ly/1fm0Oan to vote for my entry! In any case, have a wonderful day!
My entry into the Washington Post Peeps Contest, featuring recycled Peeps. For more information about the company that recycles Peeps into useful items, visit www.peepcycle.com
This is ambient only. There is a bit of a yellow cast yet back by the stairs, and now I wish I had shut the door by the stairs.