Built on the site of an earlier Norman structure between 1275 and 1300, the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, West Buckland, in the parish of Wellington, Somerset is a Grade 1 listed building. It consists of a two-bay aisled nave, chancel and north and south chapels with hammerbeam roof, the crennalated three-stage tower dating from 1509. The six bells are from the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, the oldest dating from 1606. It also has a Purbeck marble font.
Built on the site of an earlier Norman structure between 1275 and 1300, the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, West Buckland, in the parish of Wellington, Somerset is a Grade 1 listed building. It consists of a two-bay aisled nave, chancel and north and south chapels with hammerbeam roof, the crennalated three-stage tower dating from 1509. The six bells are from the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, the oldest dating from 1606. It also has a Purbeck marble font.
The inspiration for wedding cakes, in 1665 the plague killed 238 parishioners in one week and the following year the Great Fire destroyed the church. Rebuilt by Wren and damaged in the blitz, it was rebuilt after the war by the newspaper empire in Fleet Street.
Buried at St. Bride's is Robert Levet (Levett), a Yorkshireman who became a Parisian waiter, then a 'practicer of physick' who ministered to the denizens of London's seedier neighborhoods. Having been duped into a bad marriage, the hapless Levet was taken in by the author Samuel Johnson who wrote his poem "On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet" eulogizing his good friend and tenant of many years. Also buried at St Bride's are the organist and composer, Thomas Weelkes (d. 1623) and the poet, Richard Lovelace (d.1658), as well as author Samuel Richardson (d. 1761)
The abbey dates from 1235 and is on the site of a former Augustinian priory. Inchcolm Island is the Iona of Scotland and is mentioned in Macbeth.
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Remaining wonderfully intact, Inchcolm Abbey, situated in the middle of the Firth of Forth, was first used as a priory, becoming a full abbey in 1235. From 1296 it was attacked by the English, being abandoned after the Scottish reformation in 1560.
It is the most beautiful of locations.
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