IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Sapphire Place, DUNSTABLE, LU5 5LH
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Sapphire Place, LU5 5LH by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (40 Images Found)
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Image
Details
Distance
2
Houghton Regis: Bedford Square
This 1960s community shopping centre was opened by the comedy actress Hattie Jacques.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 8 Oct 2007
0.06 miles
4
The Green at Houghton Regis
Looking north across The Green, the site of the village cricket pitch, from the entrance to Houghton Hall.
Image: © M J Richardson
Taken: 19 Jun 2011
0.08 miles
5
High Street Houghton Regis
From Bedford Road
Image: © David Howard
Taken: 28 Jul 2016
0.10 miles
6
Houghton Regis - All Saints - Chancel
The chancel of All Saints, Houghton Regis leading to the altar, and behind that the plain East Window. In former times this window would have been filled with mediæval stained glass, no doubt removed and destroyed by the iconoclasts of the C17th under Cromwell. The area around the altar still contains many monuments including Image]
Image: © Rob Farrow
Taken: 13 Jun 2014
0.10 miles
7
Houghton Regis - All Saints - Old Brass
I was shown this old brass in All Saints, Houghton Regis by one of the caretakers there, as it is normally covered. The brass commemorates William Walley, a former vicar of the church.
The inscription is quite difficult to read, but this is my transcription of it:
"Dear to the soul of William Walley Intyme (?) vicar of this church which deceased the year of our lord m ccccc vi [1506] on whose soul Jesu (?) have mercy amen."
The "Intyme" may mean "one time" or may be "sutime" meaning "sometime" - and the date is open to conjecture, though I believe 1506 to be correct from other sources. Try as I might, I can't make out the word before "have mercy", but think it may be "Isu" = Jesu
Note that the date is a little strange in several ways. Firstly the M for a thousand is either missing or if it's at the end of the previous line, it looks more like y(superscript t) - which is the old abbreviation for "that"; secondly the five hundred part is rendered as CCCCC rather than the correct D; thirdly the vi for 6 is a bit malformed too!
Image: © Rob Farrow
Taken: 13 Jun 2014
0.10 miles
8
All Saints Church, Houghton Regis
There is another All Saints Church some miles north in Houghton Conquest implying a parish connection.
Image: © David Howard
Taken: 28 Jul 2016
0.10 miles
9
Bedford Square, Houghton Regis
View of Bedford Square showing the Health Centre and Library (now demolished and rebuilt).
Image: © N Avery
Taken: 26 Apr 2007
0.10 miles
10
Houghton Regis - All Saints - Font detail
A side view of the wonderful C12th "Aylesbury" font in All Saints, Houghton Regis. The main pattern at the top here seems to have something of a Celtic influence.
Note the somewhat wavy perimeter of the bowl.
Image: © Rob Farrow
Taken: 13 Jun 2014
0.10 miles