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Former St Mary's Chapel-of-Ease, Highweek Street, Newton Abbot
Apparently not previously photographed for Geograph, this group of buildings was at one time held in great affection in the town. The chapel's origins may be earlier than the 13th century; the tower is mid-15th century. The demolition of the west side of the street (behind the camera) in the early 1980s to allow road-widening only exposed its state of disrepair. It was converted into flats in 1991 for the West Country Housing Association.
Further reading:
Newon Abbot Historical Buildings Trails. Newton Abbot Town and Great Western Railway Museum, published by Newton Abbot Town Council, ?1996.
Derek Beavis. Newton Abbot Past and Present. Stroud, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2005. ISBN 0-7509-4062-X
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 27 Apr 2021
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Church Institute, Newton Abbot
This Victorian building beside St Mary's Hall has for long been the YMCA, but has now been bought by the Newton Abbot and District Musical Comedy Society.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 5 Nov 2006
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South end of Highweek Street, Newton Abbot
A closer view of the former St Mary's Chapel-of-Ease is
Image The shop, lower right, is on the original line of Highweek Road, severed in the road-widening of the 1980s.
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 27 Apr 2021
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Lights on Highweek Street, Newton Abbot
The tower is of the former St Mary's Chapel-of-Ease
Image The junction is with Bradley Lane, A382, which continues as Halcyon Road.
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 16 Feb 2022
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Waverley Road, Newton Abbot
Looking from in front of
Image], towards the bend into Fisher Road, with a view ahead to Wolborough Hill.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 20 May 2018
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Space Invader, Newton Abbot
A blast from the past as an alien from the video game adorns a gable end facing Waverley Road.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 20 May 2018
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Back alley, Newton Abbot
Seen from Waverley Road, this alley runs between houses on Chelston Road and Fisher Road (right), with a white clematis on the wall.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 20 May 2018
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Cable protector (?), Newton Abbot
As seen 100 miles away in Bristol
Image, and here on Thurlestone Road.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 20 May 2018
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Swan Inn, Highweek Street, Newton Abbot
The stylish cows' and rams' heads assert a connection to the nearby livestock market, now closed. The pub is a listed building, Grade II https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1256931?section=official-list-entry The street frontage is seen in
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Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 16 Feb 2022
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Church of St Mary, Abbotsbury, Newton Abbot
Abnother view of the grade II* listed church shown in
Image], "1904-1906, dated 1905 on rainwater heads. By EH Sedding" https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1256768 .
The gate piers in the foreground are also listed https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1256771 . "They have plinths and larger blocks to the tops which are coved at the base and gabled to four sides over recessed trefoil-headed panels."
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 20 May 2018
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