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Elizabeth and Charles Symons
This striking early photograph features a Pilton couple from the late 19th century, Elizabeth and Charles Symons, married in 1889, before having four children, Charles, May, Percy and Ivy (b 1900 ...
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The Prior's Ring
This is a mediaeval gold ring, set with a cabochon sapphire surrounded with a bezel engraved with a Hebrew inscription translated as ‘May Jesu Emmanuel Jehova be with us’, and on the reverse, in La...
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NOTES ON THE PRIORY OF SAINT MARY, AT PILTON 1867
This document is taken from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1867. It is a paper written by Townshend M Hall, FGS, on the history ...
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Plaque concerning church land taken by Henry VIII on the Dissolution of ...
Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries after he was made Supreme Head of the Church of England by an Act of Parliament in 1534. As a result, in 1536 he took away land belonging to Pilton Priory on t...
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