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Torr Lane, PLYMOUTH, PL3 5NZ

This church, which contains some attractive stained glass, appears to have been designed in the 1930s in the style often used for cinemas of the period. A little way away stands the church hall, in a smaller version of the same design. There are plans to build a new entrance joining the two. http://trinityurcplymouth.org.uk/

Built as a grand country mansion, for the Bayly family in 1882, the house has functioned as a residential and nursing home operated since 1928, initially as The Devonport and Western Counties Association for Promoting the General Welfare of the Blind but now as Torr Home. During the second world war residents were evacuated to Taunton. The surrounding area was largely rural at that time but, with its proximity to Plymouth city centre and docks and its commanding views, the home made an ideal vantage point so one of the outbuildings served as a communications centre with observers operating from the roof. A further communications link is in that it is believed that a telephone link between the house and its lodge was the first telephone installation in the country, by Alexander Graham Bell. As such a prominent landmark, the house was used as a navigation aid by ships coming in to Plymouth.