All Photos: 4,716
Photos this month: 61
Photos this week: 0
Featured Photos: 8
Buildings photographed: 427
First photos of building: 222
First photos of building this month: 1
First photos of building this week: 0
Church of St David
St David: slate memorial to William Pearse of Halwell in Davidstow, d.1638
14 October 2022
Church of St David
St David: c15 bench end showing bagpiper
14 October 2022
Church of St David
St David: unusually wide nave & aisles; c15 Cornish standard piers, rest Victorian
14 October 2022
Church of St David
St David: c15 three-stage west tower; set back buttresses & crocketed finials
14 October 2022
Church of St David
St David: church effectively rebuilt 1875 except the c15 tower; all windows with c19 Perpendicular tracery
14 October 2022
Church of St Mary
St Mary: freestone effigy believed to be of William Champernowne of Umberleigh, c.1240, surrounded by stiff leaf foliage
12 October 2022
Church of St Mary
St Mary: blue slate slab to Arthur Basset of Umberleigh, d.1586, & wife Eleanor Chichester of Raleigh, d.1585
12 October 2022
Church of St Mary
St Mary: brass figures to John Bassett of Umberleigh, d.1529, & wives Ann Dennis of Orleigh, d.1515, & Honor Grenville, d.1566; respective children & shields below
12 October 2022
Church of St Mary
St Mary: tomb with brasses to John Bassett of Umberleigh, d.1529, & wives Ann Dennis of Orleigh, d.1515 & Honor Grenville, later Lady Lisle, d.1566, eng.1533
12 October 2022
Church of Saint Peter
St Peter: large c19 framed painting of Christ in chancel
12 October 2022
Church of Saint Peter
St Peter: shield from the memorial to Sara Wollacombe (nee Fortescue of Wear Giffard), d.1652
12 October 2022
Church of Saint Peter
St Peter: memorial to Sara Fortescue of Wear Giffard, d.1652, wife of John Wollacombe of Combe, d.1663; slate tablet with rustic strapwork
12 October 2022
Church of Saint Peter
St Peter: shield from the memorial to Elizabeth Langford (nee Fortescue of Wear Giffard), d.1648
12 October 2022
Church of Saint Peter
St Peter: memorial to Elizabeth Fortescue of Wear Giffard, d.1648, wife of Roger Langford of Brownlarsh; slate tablet with rustic strapwork
12 October 2022
Church of Saint Peter
St Peter: nave rebuilt in restoration of 1868; south arcade with granite piers & four-centred arches; Victorian chancel in Early English style
12 October 2022
Church of Saint Peter
St Peter: c15 west tower with diagonal buttresses & pinnacles
12 October 2022
Church of Saint Peter
St Peter: entrance from the south
12 October 2022
Church of Saint Peter
St Peter: mostly Victorian church except the c15 tower, largely rebuilt 1868
12 October 2022
The Manor Hotel
Lew Manor: Gould arms above the entrance
12 October 2022
The Manor Hotel
Lew Manor: gable entrance with Tuscan columns
12 October 2022
The Manor Hotel
Lew Manor: E-shaped building built at end of c19 by Baring-Gould using materials from Jacobean period
12 October 2022
Parish Church of St Peter
St Peter: Beatrice Gracieuse, d.1876 aged about two, daughter of Sabine Baring-Gould, Church of England clergyman, author, and folksong collector, 1834-1924
12 October 2022
Parish Church of St Peter
St Peter: slate on external wall of porch to Alice Scawen of St Germans, d.1721; probably brought in from another parish
12 October 2022
Parish Church of St Peter
St Peter: Victorian copies of memorials to Edward Gould of Coombe, d.1661 & wife Joan (Kelland of Totnes), d.1655
12 October 2022
Parish Church of St Peter
St Peter: late Victorian copy of monument at Staverton to John Gould of Staverton, d.1562
12 October 2022
Parish Church of St Peter
St Peter: slate memorial from Staverton to Zachary Gould of Coombe, d.1643, sister Sarah, d.1649, & nephew James, d.1649
12 October 2022
Parish Church of St Peter
St Peter: slate memorial from Staverton to Edward Gould of Coombe, d.1628, wife Juliana (Irish of Chudleigh), d.1672, & to his granddaughter Juliana, d.1696
12 October 2022
Parish Church of St Peter
St Peter: memorial to Anne (nee Willoughby of Bratton Clovelly), d.1632, wife of Thomas Calmady of Wembury
12 October 2022
Parish Church of St Peter
St Peter: slate memorial to Edmund Wood of Orchard, d.1559 (in the first year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth)
12 October 2022
Parish Church of St Peter
St Peter: c16 bench end showing Instruments of Passion
12 October 2022
Parish Church of St Peter
St Peter: c16 bench end showing Instruments of Passion
12 October 2022
Parish Church of St Peter
St Peter: c16 bench end showing St Michael
12 October 2022
Parish Church of St Peter
St Peter: pulpit, 1900, by Violet Pinwell based on medieval one at Kenton
12 October 2022
Parish Church of St Peter
St Peter: copy of early c16 Flemish triptych over the Lady Chapel altar; Entombment of Christ in central panel, side panels are 'Way to the Cross' & the Resurrection
12 October 2022
Parish Church of St Peter
St Peter: rood screen complete with rood loft, 1889-1915, by Violet Pinwell based on one destroyed by Baring Gould's grandfather in 1833
12 October 2022
Parish Church of St Peter
St Peter: north wall containing Gould memorials, many brought in from Staverton or are c19 copies
12 October 2022
Parish Church of St Peter
St Peter: interior furnished by Sabine Baring-Gould, songwriter & rector from 1881-1924, dominated by rood screen; octagonal piers to north aisle
12 October 2022
Parish Church of St Peter
St Peter: unbuttressed west tower with pinnacles
12 October 2022
Parish Church of St Peter
St Peter: late c15 or early c16 church with later additions reflecting the character of Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924); set in wooded valley close to Lew Manor
12 October 2022
Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
St Mary: memorial to Thomas Greenhill, d.1637; verse is a pun on name
9 October 2022
