The Orangery, Teignmouth Devon

Yesterday we explored the local spot of the Orangery at Teignmouth. You can read that post HERE. Even in this small historical location there were a few plaques and I photographed them and shall post them here, but first a general view of the Orangery.

Located on a bench at the rear of the main Bitton House Building

St James Church, Teignmouth

Last week we walked our Border Terrier a slightly different route, which involved going past the church. There was a rather small and dingy note advising no dogs, but we decided to chance it and remain on the foot path, with Alf on a short lead to get to the other entrance. Alfie, was a good boy and was simply relieved to have a bit more freedom once we had exited the church grounds.

As we walked through I noticed that there were very few grave stones. There were some random tomb style graves and the rest of the headstones were again two of the back walls, two headstones deep.

I really wish the church hadn't done that, at some point in the past. A quick look and most of the stones are illegible, but I might go back through the summer and see what details I can extract. In the meantime, here are some general views.

Wall Plaque - Roy Flinn - Teignmouth, Devon

 

Situated on the right hand side of the main corridor at Teignmouth Hospital.

Teignmouth War Memorial

Teignmouth Cemetery, Devon

Not being native to Teignmouth we rarely visit the local cemetery. As I plan to photograph the graves for this blog we headed up to the cemetery last night to see how it has fared in the last 10 years, which was when we last visited.

I think it is fair to say that we were quite shocked of the deterioration of the grave stones. We photographed some, mainly general views and a few close up shots, some of which appear below and the rest are located on Flickr.

Devon Family History Society has transcribed the gravestone and a fiche of the transcriptions is available. Just as well given the deterioration.

Teignmouth Cemetery, a set on Flickr.

Mules Park at Eastcliffe

Inspired by an article in the local paper about Mules Park we decided to explore. In the time we had lived here we had never heard of it. We had a lovely walk, despite the weather being miserable and Alfie made lots of new friends!

Teignmouth Post Friday 27th May 2011

As we started to walk round keeping an eye on Alfie we spotted memorials at the bottom of seats and on the backs of some of the park benches.

Click HERE to view the complete set of photos

Living in a church.....

The weekly free paper usually plops through the letterbox on Thursday evenings, we know when it has arrived when Alfie, our Border Terrier, who makes up for his size with personality, barks to advise that something is happening at the front door.

I tend to come home from work on a Friday, collapse in a heap and while waiting for the kettle to boil flick through the paper removing anything that I want to keep for my Teignmouth archive. I was intrigued when I spotted a converted church for sale.

Well, it is out of our price range and we have no plans to move currently, although every now and again we do have a conversation about two of us, opps, no, three of us if we count Alfie rattling around in a house of this size,which we bought for a family we do not actually have!, but I vote we shelf the idea of moving for at least now. The thought of boxing up my study sends me into a panic of gigantic proportions!

From the main road not surprisingly, the spire of the property can be seen and I have often wondered what the property was, but never actually got around to investigating. So, from the confines of my newspaper and study with laptop I nipped onto the selling agents website and viewed the pictures. Picture number 10 of the slideshow reveals the gardens with headstones of those nuns buried within the grounds. There is also a Mausoleum in the grounds with the interred remains of the abbesses.

So, has any of these headstones been transcribed?, or are they, as they now reside in someone's garden, lost to researchers?

Disclaimer - I am not in anyway connected to the seller of the property or the selling agent.