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Buildings Section of the Devonshire Association ~ Posts by Dr Helen Wilson @nellythewillow

Devon, England
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@DABuildings
Devon Assoc Buildings
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Buckland Abbey #Devon Founded as a Cistercian abbey in 1278, dissolved in 1539 and sold in 1541. Church retained as principal component of new house while most of the rest was demolished, including the transepts to let light into a central hall under the tower. 📸: my own
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@DevonshireAssoc
DA Executive Secretary
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Devonshire Dialect Dictionary For more details and DDD words see https://t.co/QvxjBDbvS5……… inederzide = behind
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@DevonshireAssoc
DA Executive Secretary
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Booking is now open for our President's Symposium 10 May exploring Devon's World-Class Heritage through our 6 UNESCO sites. It's going to be a really interesting day https://t.co/ZaOsRwOhST
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Carved panels 1522 - 18th century 'collected' by George Templer to create a fire surround for his house at Sandford Orleigh. Now conserved and displayed in #NewtonAbbot #Museum at Newton Place #Devon #Woodensday
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@DevonshireAssoc
DA Executive Secretary
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Devonshire Dialect Dictionary For more details and DDD words see https://t.co/QvxjBDbvS5… gally = to scare
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@DevonshireAssoc
DA Executive Secretary
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Devonshire Dialect Dictionary For more details and DDD words see https://t.co/QvxjBDbvS5 Fairies' Basins = the buttercup
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@friendschurches
Friendless Churches
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The 15th-century rood screen at Ayshford Chapel in Devon has a subtle 19th-century polychromatic colour scheme.
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@RAGriggsauthor
Rosemary Griggs
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Much of Exeter’s City Wall still stands. Built by the Romans about 200A.D. repaired many times since. #wallsonwednesday #Exeter
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@SlingsbyElaine
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The Bishop's Palace - 14th century tower and medieval wall #WindowsOnWednesday #WallsOnWednesday #Paignton #Devon https://t.co/ymKojJku9P
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@SlingsbyElaine
ElaineS
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Reredos 1906 by Sir Ninian Comper in All Soul's Chapel #Paignton Parish Church or St John the Baptist #Devon
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@Our_Exeter
Our Exeter
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Footage here from #Exeter in the 1940s, showing cleanup efforts following WWII bombing raids. #History 💙
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@SlingsbyElaine
ElaineS
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#StoneworkSunday Kirkham Chantry in #Paignton Parish Church of St John the Baptist #Devon
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ElaineS
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15th century pulpit, carved in Beer stone #Paignton Parish Church or St John the Baptist #Devon #SundaySermon
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Organ presented in 1889 by Paris Singer of the sewing machine family and designed by Mardon Mowbray and built by Messrs. Thompson of Peterborough #Paignton Parish Church of St John the Baptist #Devon
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@Our_Exeter
Our Exeter
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This evening @Our_Exeter takes you back in time 95 years from 2025 to 1930 and the approx location of the stunning Dellers Cafe on the corner of Bedford St & High St in #Exeter Damaged in WWII, but said to be salvageable, the decision for demolition was controversially taken.🧵
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@SlingsbyElaine
ElaineS
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The Kirkham Chantry screen, late 15th C. #Paignton Parish Church of St John the Baptist "one of the most remarkable monuments to survive in any church in England....the overall effect is of a giant cake awaiting a wedding that was called off at the last minute" (Jenkins 1999)
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@SlingsbyElaine
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#ScreenSaturday #Paignton Parish Church of St John the Baptist #Devon
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