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Barnfield Road, EXETER, EX1 1RZ

On the gate to a former care home, being redeveloped

The house on the right, at the corner with Barnfield Road, has ornate chimneys and gables. It has stables with a gabled entrance. The house is not shown on the 1890 OS map, but is present on the 1905 map. The house beyond is older

This monument is described in http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/_art/liverydole.php

A dull subject, not an adjective which applies to the man it commemorates. Ask the first ten people you meet to name the first king of Britain and it is highly unlikely that any of them would name Athelstan (?894-939). These days, he is a relatively little-known figure in British history. In the middle ages he was very famous, a powerful and influential figure known, and almost revered, throughout Europe. He was intelligent, a fearsome war leader, and a man who instigated domestic reform of law and order, coinage and local government. His reputation survived the Norman Conquest, he was the subject of a fourteenth-century play, and was featured on Shakespeare's stage in 1599. Athelstan was a grandson of Alfred the Great and came to the English throne in 924, ruling until his death in 939. He built on Alfred's achievements and pushed forward the frontier of English rule, overcoming the Vikings, Scots and Welsh, until he was effectively ruler of all Britain, the most powerful man to rule there since the Romans. The Exeter connection seems to be that Athelstan used the city as his base while expelling the Cornish from the city and driving them back to Cornwall.

This relief on the 1909 Martyr's Memorial at the corner of Denmark Road and Barnfield Road in Exeter shows the burning of the protestant Agnes Prest in 1557 "for refusing to worship a piece of bread as God". The memorial also commemorates Thomas Benet (Image).

This relief appears on the reverse side of the memorial shown in Image Thomas Benet was burnt in 1531 for heresy. http://www.otteryreformed.freeola.net/exmartyr.htm

The houses in this terrace are faced with stone; the stone came from the bridge over the river Exe which was demolished in 1903, when a new bridge was built to allow trams to cross the river on a flat bridge. The stone was also used for the front garden walls of the terrace.