Devon Assoc Buildings

Buildings Section of the Devonshire Association ~ Posts by Dr Helen Wilson @nellythewillow

[Devon Assoc Buildings @DABuildings]

Buckland Abbey #Devon
Founded as a Cistercian abbey in 1278, dissolved in 1539 and sold in 1541. Church retained as principal component of new house while most of the rest was demolished, including the transepts to let light into a central hall under the tower. 📸: my own

[DA Executive Secretary @DevonshireAssoc]

Devonshire Dialect Dictionary For more details and DDD words see https://t.co/QvxjBDbvS5………

inederzide = behind

[DA Executive Secretary @DevonshireAssoc]

Booking is now open for our President's Symposium 10 May exploring Devon's World-Class Heritage through our 6 UNESCO sites. It's going to be a really interesting day https://t.co/ZaOsRwOhST

[DA Executive Secretary @DevonshireAssoc]

Devonshire Dialect Dictionary For more details and DDD words see https://t.co/QvxjBDbvS5…

gally = to scare

[DA Executive Secretary @DevonshireAssoc]

Devonshire Dialect Dictionary For more details and DDD words see https://t.co/QvxjBDbvS5

Fairies' Basins = the buttercup

[Friendless Churches @friendschurches]

The 15th-century rood screen at Ayshford Chapel in Devon has a subtle 19th-century polychromatic colour scheme.

[Rosemary Griggs @RAGriggsauthor]

Much of Exeter’s City Wall still stands. Built by the Romans
about 200A.D. repaired many times since.
#wallsonwednesday #Exeter

[Our Exeter @Our_Exeter]

Footage here from #Exeter in the 1940s, showing cleanup efforts following WWII bombing raids. #History 💙

[Our Exeter @Our_Exeter]

This evening @Our_Exeter takes you back in time 95 years from 2025 to 1930 and the approx location of the stunning Dellers Cafe on the corner of Bedford St & High St in #Exeter
Damaged in WWII, but said to be salvageable, the decision for demolition was controversially taken.🧵