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The church of St Pancras is known as the "Cathedral of the Moors" in recognition of its 120-foot tower and relatively large capacity for such a small village. Originally built in the fourteenth century, in the Perpendicular style (late Gothic), using locally quarried granite, it was enlarged over the following two centuries, partly on the proceeds of the local tin mining trade.
Widcombe is a district of Bath, England, immediately south-east of the city centre, across the River Avon.. The electoral ward was merged with Lyncombe at the boundary changes effected at the elections held on 2 May 2019; [2] the two places have historically been connected (refer to the Lyncombe article).
Widcombe Manor is a grade I listed Georgian house in Widcombe, Bath, England, built in 1656 [1] and then rebuilt in 1727 for Philip Bennet the local MP. [2] The crest of the Bennet family can be seen surmounting the two pedestals at the entrance gates. [3] The manor is located on Church Street adjacent to St Thomas à Becket Church.
Widdecombe, Widecombe, Widdicombe, Widdicomb or Widcombe may refer to: People: Ann Widdecombe (born 1947), British politician; Angus Widdicombe (born 1994), Australian rower; Danny Widdicombe, Australian musician; David Widdicombe (born 1962), Canadian filmmaker and playwright; Josh Widdicombe (born 1983), English stand-up comedian; Richard Widcome
Wikipedia images of maps of the United Kingdom (1 C) Pages in category "Maps of the United Kingdom" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
The church was built between 1490 and 1498 by John Cantlow, Prior of Bath Abbey and took the place of an older Norman church. [4] However, there was a common tradition that a weaver was the founder of the church, and an escutcheon bearing a weaver's shuttle can be seen [nb 1] on the outside of one of the north battlements of the tower. [5]
Vision of Britain is an unusual web site as it is database-driven, but uses the ontologies in the underlying system to create clickable links between pages: most pages the site can create can be reached without filling out a search form, or clicking on an image map, and this makes the site's content generally accessible to search engines. One ...
The Manor of Lyncombe was ecclesiastical property from the time of Osric, king of the Hwicce in the 7th century to the Norman Conquest. [5] A charter of the City of Bath records that in 970 King Edgar "granted ten hides at Cliftune (i.e. Lyncombe), near Bath, Somerset, to St Peter's church, Bath, in return for 100 mancuses of gold and ten hides at Cumtune (possibly Chilcompton or Compton Dando ...