All Hallows church
Broadwoodkelly Church Wall June 2024 Update
Dear all,
Our builder is on schedule and has started the facing with the original stone that was carefully removed from the site, hand prepared for reuse and graded.
We are currently in budget, but urge people and businesses to contribute towards this project. For health and safety reasons we had to start work, so do not currently have sufficient funds to complete the project. We are lucky to have a benefactor who has kindly donated all of the materials (now running into thousands of pounds) but we really do need the support of you all. We could not have predicted that this wall would become so unstable.
To date we have had one contribution, for which we are extremely grateful. But hope for more so that this wall can be finished promptly.
The PCC hope that the church and its grounds and eco garden are seen as a village asset for all families to use.
Thank you sincerely for any assistance you can offer.
Can I also ask that you email this to people you may know that would like to help, or do not receive the circular.
Best wishes
Rowan Western
Church Warden
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King's Coronation Flowers
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All Hallows Church
Broadwoodkelly Church dates mostly from the fifteenth century (though some parts of the building are some 200 years older). Consisting of nave and south aisle, it boasts a charming 1523 original stained glass window in the north wall and a fairly massive sixteenth-century octagonal font. The whole building was extensively but sympathetically restored in 1869. The organ, built by Telford & Telford of Dublin, dates from 1849 and was originally built as a house organ for Lord Thynne at Haynes Park in Bedfordshire.
Listing Description of BROADWOODKELLY Church of All Hallows
C13, considerably rebuilt in C15 and early C16, restored in 1867-8.
Local stone rubble walls with dressed granite quoins, granite ashlar to front of porch.
Gable ended slate roof. Plan: nave, chancel, south aisle and porch, west tower. Chancel incorporates some C13 fabric, nave is probably C15 tower, south aisle and porch are circa early C16.
Restored by R. D. Gould in 1867-8. Exterior: 3 stage tower with crocketted pinnacles and 2 light belfry openings with -centred heads. Set-back buttresses. Granite west doorway is moulded with 4- centred head. 3 light Perpendicular west window has been partly repaired. Nave has only 1 window on north side, a C19 restoration in Perpendicular style. No buttresses and chancel is continuous with C13 Y-tracery 2 light window. East window is C19 or C20 restoration in Decorated style. The east end of the south aisle is set back from the chancel with a 3 light Perpendicular style window similar to that of the nave. On its south side the aisle has 3 tall early C16 mullion windows with 4-centred heads and square hoodmoulds. Mullions partly renewed. Small priests door below right-hand one with segmental granite head. 1 storey south porch has 4- centred granite doorway with roll hollow and roll moulding and chamfered imposts. Small C18 slate sundial above.
Interior: Porch has original wagon roof with moulded ribs and decorative foliage and flower bosses. Granite south doorway with 4-centred head, roll and hollow moulding and prominent stops. The heavy plank door has a wooden lock case on the back inscribed "Robert Wollan 1694". 4 bay granite arcade of chamfered 4-centred arches and Pevsner A-type piers. No chancel arch. Plain chamfered 4-centred tower arch. Nave has simple collar-rafter late C15 or C16 open wagon roof. More elaborate wagon roof to aisle with moulded ribs, bosses of various designs, some with human faces, and running foliage wall-plates. C15 or C16 granite octagonal font, roof moulded at base of bowl, on heavy square base.
There are several good early C18 wall memorials: one of the Webber family who died 1707 -1754 with a broken pediment and reeded pilasters. Another elaborate stone memorial of 1711 to Anne Hetherch with a broken segmental pediment, stiff-leafed foliage capitals to columns and ornamentation at sides and below. On the south aisle wall is a memorial plaque of 1724 to Jane Chapman with a coat of arms at the top. In the north window of the chancel some old glass is preserved dated 1523. Source: Devon C19 Churches Project
ECO Church Bronze Award has been awarded to All Hallows, in recognition for its work towards a net zero carbon footprint. Visit the churchyard to see the fabulous wild flowers in spring and earlysummer. There is a wildlife meadow and train at the far end of the grounds. Fruit trees have been planted. Insects, bats and birds are actively being encouraged. The use of energy is done mindfully and kept to the bare minimum and the electricity is sourced from a responsible provider. We are now working towards the Silver Award. Details can be found on the website : https://ecochurch.arocha.org.uk
Contacts Priest-in-Charge The Revd Helen Blaine The Vicarage, Torrington Road, Winkleigh, EX19 8HR 01837 83710 / revhelenblaine@outlook.com Normal day off – Saturday
Assistant Curate The Revd Fiona Law revfionalaw@outlook.com Normal working days – Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday afternoon.
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Church wardens
Winkleigh Sue Ware 01837 83526 Jane Hill 01837 680128
Ashreigney James Lewis 01769 520647
Broadwoodkelly Rowan Western 01837 83381 Cathy Brook 01837 83786
Brushford Nigel Nightingale 01837 83288