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College, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ13 9EW

St Mary's Well and an attractive little garden with a bus stop and bench can be seen in front of the wall, behind which is the garden of a rather grand house called Church Style.

The churchyard cross is a memorial to a priest, Charles Leslie Courtenay, who died in 1894. Behind is Image

Cross-shaft incorporated into memorial. Probably medieval cross-shaft and later C19 memorial. Granite shaft tapered and chamfered. The upper part of the shaft, including the right arm and lower part of the head, is of closely similar granite but seems less weathered and may be C19. The top of the cross-head, again a separate piece of granite, may be medieval. The cross-base and the 3 octagonal steps on which it stands are C19, erected as a memorial to the Rev. Charles Courtenay (d.1894).

The well is set into the front wall of the churchyard of St Peter, St Paul and St Thomas of Canterbury Church (which used to St Mary’s) in Bovey Tracey. There is a story concerning the well. Long ago a priest returned home one evening to find a visitor waiting for him. The priest and his wife shared their food with the visitor and offered shelter. The visitor blessed the couple and promising them good fortune, went to pray at the well saying ‘here is living water for yourself and the church’. From that day on the frogs which inhabited the well were gold coloured and water from the well was used for baptisms. There was no water and no golden frogs when I visited.

Bovey Tracey Churchyard Cross, old head and shaft in a new cross, Starkey No.79 by the footpath, in parish of Bovey Tracey (Teignbridge District), off Bradley Road, on The Green below the church, on the new, sloped access to the church. Grade II listed. List Entry Number: 1165670 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165670 Surveyed Milestone Society National ID: DVTE_BOV05

Church Steps, also shown in Image, is the former church house, on the south side of the churchyard of Image Bradley Road passes by it on the right.

Another view of Image, actually built into the garden wall of Church Style Cottage. The basin is formed from a single block of granite, and the spout above is also of granite. The detailed description at http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-84485-granite-trough-and-recess-in-south-wall-o can offer no suggestion for the date.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165637?section=official-list-entry

The cobbled path from the porch to the church steps, with Image See the similar Image

A narrow lane leads past the foot of the church steps past the thatched cottage called Church Steps (right). The converted gas lamp holder forms part of the listing http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-84494-church-hall-amp-garden-railings-about-17- of the church hall, part of which can be seen up the lane.