This walk: 2009-11-5. Sylvia Sayer's monolith, St. Pancras Church - The Cathedral of the Moors, Church House, Sexton's Cottage, naval shell, lych gate, coffin stone, The Old Inn, three granite crosses, the nave, granite pulpit.
This page can be browsed in conjunction with photos from a later walk, on 24 March 2010.
The Widecombe-in the-Moor web site
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The monolith near the church, designed by Lady Sylvia Sayer, showing the characters of the Widecombe Fair song about Tom Cobley and his grey mare (Widecombe's own web site) .....
The sign on the pillar .....
Close-up of the top of the structure .....
..... and closer again - "With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, Dan'l Whiddon, Harry Hawke, Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all (Wikipedia entry about the historical Tom Cobley).
Part of the village green: it was used for archery practise in the days when this was compulsory by royal command to maintain an army of skilled archers for time of war.
A view of the church tower. Note the small crosses atop the corner pinnacles.
A National Trust sign.
Outside Church house and the Sexton's Cottage.
Another sign.
The lych gate and coffin stone .....
..... as in the previous photo.
The 15-inch naval shell that was donated to the village by the National War Savings Committee for its effort in collecting sphagnum moss which, when dried, acts as a good absorbent (like cotton wool) and which has natural antiseptic qualities for treating wounds as used in WW1.
The sign on the shell.
The Old Inn - a place that is like the Dr Who's TARDIS - small outside but very large and rambling on the inside.
A view of the church.
Another village scene.
One of the humorous signs on the walls inside the pub.
A real log fire in the pub.
The date "1753" on a gravestone in the churchyard.
Another view of the church, I learned later that the old Widecombe cross, displaced from where the yew tree is seen above (in the 5th photo above), was re-erected outside the church door and is just visible at the right-hand edge of this photograph. It faces the opposite way to all the other crosses in the churchyard.
Sign in the lych gateway.
A collection of four notice boards inside the main entrance to the church, telling the story of when lightning struck the tower in 1638, partly demolishing it ..... these story boards feature "f" as the long "s" of Middle English.
Board 1 .....
Board 2 .....
Board 3 .....
Board 4.
Three crosses, believed to have been reclaimed from the ruins of the damaged tower where they may have topped the corner pinnacles of the tower.
The nave, with the font.
The granite pulpit.
A model of the church .....
..... made from matchsticks.
The date "1673" on a stone in the floor of the church.
..... and the clock struck 3 o'clock.
A last view of the clock tower against a now-blue sky. Note the small crosses at the top of each small spire - possibly replacing the three seen inside the church, see one of the photos above.
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