Tower, former URC, Paignton

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Tower, former URC, Paignton

Image: © Derek Harper Taken: 30 Oct 2023

"The tower to the right is square on plan to the lower stage, octagonal above with a waterleaf-carved corbel frieze below a stone spire with bands of yellow and red stone. On the W face the tower has a shoulder-headed doorway with original doors below a shallow gable with a sexafoil in the tympanum; stone panel with roundel decoration over. Tall 2-tier 2-light window above with plate tracery, trefoil in head and frieze of blind cinquefoils and polished stones across the centre." https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1207693?section=official-list-entry . "1886 to the designs of GS Bridgman ... Free Decorated Gothic style." The images at https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=193293245 place this in more context.

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