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Title
Ruin Of A Church
Artist
Michaela Perryman
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Holy Trinity Church,Buckfastleigh, Devon, England, UK. The church has a strange legend attached to it and has had a violent history. Below the church are a system of caves which run for about 3.5km. In ‘Reed’s Cave’ is a weird natural formation known as the ‘Little Man’, this has been formed by the joining of a stalactite and a stalagmite. The figure is said to resemble a human figure in seventeenth century clothes.
8th of May 1849 arsonists broke into the church and started a fire which destroyed the vestry, part of the roof of the north aisle, the parish chest and badly damaged the communion table.
21st of July 1992 when sometime around midnight the church was broken into and a fire started under the altar. This time the inferno completely gutted the church. The biggest problem that the fire brigade faced was that the nearest hydrant was a quarter of a mile away and the fact that the water had to be pumped uphill, it took a relay of thirty eight 70ft connected hoses to get the water on site. The fire was so intense that the heat literally blew apart the old Norman font.
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March 4th, 2020
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South Brent, De - United Kingdom
Looking in on this one again....such a great shot. Voted for in the contest RUINED CHURCHES IN THE UK in the group Best Of British
Darlington, PA - United States
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