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St Martin's Church, Liskeard
St Martin's Church, Liskeard is a Church of England parish church in Liskeard, Cornwall, the second-largest parish church in Cornwall after St Petroc's Church, Bodmin. History The church includes some Norman fragments, but is mostly 15th century. The South Chapel dates from 1428, the south chancel aisle from 1430, and additions to the north side from 1477. The tower was repaired in 1675, but was largely rebuilt between 1898 and 1902 at a cost of £6,400 () by John Sampson of Liskeard. The structure of the church was restored in 1878–1879 at a cost of over £3,700 () under the direction of Richard Coad, architect, of Liskeard and London, by the contractor Mr. Lang. There was a further restoration in 1890 for the interior. Tencreek cross and Culverland cross are stone crosses in the churchyard. The former was found in 1903 at Tencreek Farm and was moved to the churchyard in 1908. The latter was also moved here in 1908 and is thought to have come from a site near Trevecca. Reno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liskeard
Liskeard ( ; kw, Lyskerrys) is a small ancient stannary and market town in south-east Cornwall, South West England. It is situated approximately 20 miles (32 km) west of Plymouth, west of the Devon border, and 12 miles (20 km) east of Bodmin. The Bodmin Moor lies to the north-west of the town. The total population of the town at the 2011 census was 11,366 History The Cornish place name element ''Lis'', along with ancient privileges accorded the town, indicates that the settlement was once a high status 'court'. King Dungarth whose cross is a few miles north near St Cleer is thought to be a descendant of the early 8th century king Gerren of Dumnonia and is said to have held his court in Liskeard (''Lis-Cerruyt''). Liskeard (Liscarret) was at the time of the Domesday Survey an important manor with a mill rendering 12d. yearly and a market rendering 4s. William the Conqueror gave it to Robert, Count of Mortain by whom it was held in demesne. Ever since that time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Squint Or Leper Window At St
Squinting is the action of looking at something with partially closed eyes. Squinting is most often practiced by people who suffer from refractive errors of the eye who either do not have or are not using their glasses. Squinting helps momentarily improve their eyesight by slightly changing the shape of the eye to make it rounder, which helps light properly reach the fovea. Squinting also decreases the amount of light entering the eye, making it easier to focus on what the observer is looking at by removing rays of light which enter the eye at an angle and would need to otherwise be focused by the observer's faulty lens and cornea. Pinhole glasses, which severely restrict the amount of light entering the cornea, have the same effect as squinting. It is a common belief that squinting worsens eyesight. However, according to Robert MacLaren, a professor of ophthalmology at the University of Oxford, this is nothing more than an old wives' tale: the only damage that can be caused by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of England Church Buildings In Cornwall
Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * Christian denomination, a Christian organization with distinct doctrine and practice * Christian Church, either the collective body of all Christian believers, or early Christianity Places United Kingdom * Church (Liverpool ward), a Liverpool City Council ward * Church (Reading ward), a Reading Borough Council ward * Church (Sefton ward), a Metropolitan Borough of Sefton ward * Church, Lancashire, England United States * Church, Iowa, an unincorporated community * Church Lake, a lake in Minnesota Arts, entertainment, and media * '' Church magazine'', a pastoral theology magazine published by the National Pastoral Life Center Fictional entities * Church (''Red vs. Blue''), a fictional character in the video web series ''Red vs. Blue'' * Chu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mears And Stainbank
The Whitechapel Bell Foundry was a business in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. At the time of the closure of its Whitechapel premises, it was the oldest manufacturing company in Great Britain. The bell foundry primarily made church bells and their fittings and accessories, although it also provided single tolling bells, carillon bells and handbells. The foundry was notable for being the original manufacturer of the Liberty Bell, a famous symbol of American independence, and for re-casting Big Ben, which rings from the north clock tower (the Elizabeth Tower) at the Houses of Parliament in London. The Whitechapel premises are a Grade II* listed building. The foundry closed on 12 June 2017, after nearly 450 years of bell-making and 250 years at its Whitechapel site, with the final bell cast given to the Museum of London along with other artefacts used in the manufacturing process, and the building has been sold. Following the sale of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, the bell pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dove's Guide For Church Bell Ringers
''Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers'' (known to ringers as ''Dove's Guide'' or simply ''Dove'') is the standard reference to the rings of bells hung for English-style full circle ringing. The vast majority of these "towers" are in England and Wales but the guide includes towers from the rest of the British Isles as well as a few from around the world (including the United States, Australia, Canada, Africa and New Zealand). The latest edition is ''Dove’s Guide for Church Bell Ringers to the Rings of Bells of the World'' (11th Edition). History The guide was first published in 1950 by Ronald Hammerton Dove (1 June 1906 – 19 March 2001) under the title ''A Bellringer's Guide to the Church Bells of Britain and Ringing Peals of the World''. Previously the location of rings of bells was a matter only of local knowledge and hearsay. Dove produced eight editions of his guide between 1950 and 1994, managing to visit and ring at nearly all the ringable towers himself (a never- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Pipe Organ Register
The British Institute of Organ Studies (BIOS) is a British organisation and registered charity which aims to promote study and appreciation of all aspects of the pipe organ. Further, it acts as a lobbying body to raise awareness of organ issues with appropriate statutory bodies. Membership is open to all. Aims The aims of BIOS are * To promote objective, scholarly research into the history of the organ and its music in all its aspects, and, in particular, into the organ and its music in Britain. * To conserve the sources and materials for the history of the organ in Britain, and to make them accessible to scholars. * To work for the preservation and, where necessary, the faithful restoration of historic organs in Britain. * To encourage an exchange of scholarship with similar bodies and individuals abroad, and to promote, in Britain, a greater appreciation of historical overseas schools of organ-building. BIOS publishes a quarterly ''Reporter'' newsletter and magazine and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Stanley Middleton
Hubert Stanley Middleton (11 May 1890 – 13 August 1959) was a Organist#Classical and church organists, cathedral organist who served at Truro Cathedral and Ely Cathedral before taking up a long-standing organist and teaching appointment at Trinity College, Cambridge. Background Middleton was born on 11 May 1890 in Windsor, Berkshire, Windsor. His education began at the Imperial Service College where he first received organ lessons from Sir Walter Parratt, and then at the Royal Academy of Music. From there he went on to study for the history tripos at Peterhouse, Cambridge, taking his MA and Mus.B in 1920.Obituary, ''Musical Times'', October, 1959, p 545 From that year Middleton served as organist and conductor of the choir at Truro Cathedral (succeeding Mark James Monk), during which time he married Dorothy Mary Miller (on 7 January 1922). While at Truro he established himself as a prominent West Country organist and choral conductor, giving many opening recitals on newly insta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Chapman Bishop
James Chapman Bishop (1783 – 2 December 1854) was a notable British Organ (music), organ manufacturer of the 19th century. History He was apprenticed to Benjamin Flight and then set up his own business in London in 1807 initially at York buildings in Marylebone and later at 250 Marylebone Road. On his death in 1854, the business was run by his son, Charles Augustus Bishop (born 1821), John Starr and William Ebenezer Richardson, and was known as ''Bishop, Starr and Richardson'' from 1854 to 1857, and then ''Bishop and Starr'' from 1857 onwards. From 1873 it became ''Bishop and Son''. Works *All Saints' Church, Northallerton 1818 *St Peter's Church, Dorchester 1823 *St Mary Abchurch 1823 *St John's Church, Waterloo 1824 *St Mary Aldermanbury 1824 *All Souls Church, Langham Place 1825 *St Mark's Church, North Audley Street 1825 *St Paul's Cathedral 1826 *Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone 1828 * The Revd Dr Philip Wynter, President, St John's College, Oxford 1828 *St James's Church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Keyne
St Keyne ( kw, Sen Keyn) is a village in the civil parish of St Keyne and Trewidland, in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish lies between the parishes of Liskeard and Duloe. The parish population at the 2011 census was 492. The village is served by a railway station known as St Keyne Wishing Well Halt. Notable buildings The church is dedicated to Saint Keyne, said to be one of the daughters of the legendary Welsh King Brychan. The church is of little architectural interest. The Perpendicular north aisle has probably been added to a church originally cruciform in plan (its windows however are Decorated, no doubt reused). The west tower is of three storeys and without buttresses. St Keyne's well is a holy well dedicated to Saint Keyne, located about southeast of the village. A small housing was built over the well in the 16th century, this was rebuilt in the 1930s. The ballad ''The Well of St Keyne'' was written by the poet Robert Southey (1774–1843). In Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Coad
Richard Coad (13 February 1825 – 1 November 1900) was a 19th-century Cornish architect.DSA Architect Biography Report Born in , , he was articled to Henry Rice of Liskeard and subsequently worked as assistant to Sir from 1847 to 1864. He was clerk of works on the |
St Petroc's Church, Bodmin
St Petroc's Church, Bodmin, also known as Bodmin Parish Church, was a Roman Catholic Church until the reformation and is currently an Anglican parish church in the town of Bodmin, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The existing church building is dated 1469–1472 and was until the building of Truro Cathedral the largest church in Cornwall. The tower which remains from the original Norman church and stands on the north side of the church (the upper part is 15th century) was until the loss of its spire in 1699 150 ft high. The building underwent two Victorian restorations and another in 1930. It is now listed Grade I. Part of the church is the Regimental Chapel of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry dedicated in 1933. The parish of Bodmin is now grouped with Cardinham, Lanivet and Lanhydrock parishes. There is a chapel at Nanstallon. Features of St Petroc's Church Prior Vyvyan's tomb There are a number of interesting monuments, most notably that of Prior Vivian which was fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornwall
Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, with the River Tamar forming the border between them. Cornwall forms the westernmost part of the South West Peninsula of the island of Great Britain. The southwesternmost point is Land's End and the southernmost Lizard Point. Cornwall has a population of and an area of . The county has been administered since 2009 by the unitary authority, Cornwall Council. The ceremonial county of Cornwall also includes the Isles of Scilly, which are administered separately. The administrative centre of Cornwall is Truro, its only city. Cornwall was formerly a Brythonic kingdom and subsequently a royal duchy. It is the cultural and ethnic origin of the Cornish dias ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
