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The Plympton Village Historic District encompasses the historic village center of Plympton, Massachusetts. It is a roughly linear district, running along Main Street (Massachusetts Route 58) between Palmer Road and Mayflower Road. There are twenty buildings in the district, most of which are residential.
Plympton is a suburb of the city of Plymouth in Devon, England. It is in origin an ancient stannary town . It was an important trading centre for locally mined tin , and a seaport before the River Plym silted up and trade moved down river to Plymouth and was the seat of Plympton Priory the most significant local landholder for many centuries.
Arms of Strode: Argent, a chevron between three conies courant sable.Detail from mural monument to Sir William IV Strode (1562-1637) in St Mary's Church, Plympton. Sir William Strode (1614 – 13 January 1676) of Newnham, Plympton St Mary, Devon, was a member of the Devonshire gentry and twice served as MP for his family's pocket borough of Plympton Erle, in 1660 and 1661–1676.
As revealed when the British archaeology television programme Time Team visited Plympton in 1998, today's building was installed around the earlier shell, leaving a one-foot gap between the two frontages. When the rebuild happened, around the turn of the 17th century, the road was raised to provide a grand entrance to the new front door and, in ...
Saltram House is a grade I listed [1] George II era house in Plympton, Devon, England. It was deemed by the architectural critic Nikolaus Pevsner to be "the most impressive country house in Devon". [2] The house was designed by the architect Robert Adam, who altered and greatly expanded the original Tudor house on two occasions. The Saloon is ...
The oldest parts of the present house were said by John Britton (1771–1857) to have been built about the middle of the 14th century. Britton believed the main entrance porch, consisting of a semicircular arch with Norman-style cable mouldings, to be of ancient date, brought from some neighbouring church, or even Plympton Castle.
The painter, Sir Joshua Reynolds, was elected mayor of Plympton in 1773 and presented a self-portrait to the borough, to be hung in the guildhall. [8] Plympton had a very small electorate and two dominant patrons, Paul Treby Treby of Plympton House and Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe of Mount Edgcumbe House , which meant it was ...
Plympton Priory was a priory in Devon, England. [1] Its history is recorded in the Annales Plymptonienses. [2] History. The site of an Anglo-Saxon minster, Plympton ...