I took a bus into Exeter yesterday and spent three hours just wandering around the lanes and back streets with my camera. This was my first stop.
Incredibly, this lovely tiny church is set in the middle of the Guildhall Shopping Centre. On three sides of the courtyard there are modern shops screened by trees and on the fourth is a row of medieval buildings which are now little shops.
One of the shops with a millstone embedded in the wall.
And another one with this gorgeous door.
St Pancras church was first recorded in 1191 and is one of the oldest Christian sites in England with a chancel and nave. It is only 46½ ft by 16 ft and was built of Heavitree Stone, which is a volcanic rock (Heavitree is an area of Exeter, the city being built upon a volcanic plug). The bell turret contains a small bell founded in Mermaid Yard by Robert Newton, who established his bell foundry in 1423, and is inscribed Quamvis sum parva tamen audior ampla per arva, which translates "I may be small, nevertheless I am heard over a wide distance".
No longer used as a church, but it is maintained and left open for people to look around or just sit quietly and meditate.
More info and history about this beautiful church in the link below. Hope you enjoyed.
http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/_churches/stpancras.php
Incredibly, this lovely tiny church is set in the middle of the Guildhall Shopping Centre. On three sides of the courtyard there are modern shops screened by trees and on the fourth is a row of medieval buildings which are now little shops.
One of the shops with a millstone embedded in the wall.
And another one with this gorgeous door.
St Pancras church was first recorded in 1191 and is one of the oldest Christian sites in England with a chancel and nave. It is only 46½ ft by 16 ft and was built of Heavitree Stone, which is a volcanic rock (Heavitree is an area of Exeter, the city being built upon a volcanic plug). The bell turret contains a small bell founded in Mermaid Yard by Robert Newton, who established his bell foundry in 1423, and is inscribed Quamvis sum parva tamen audior ampla per arva, which translates "I may be small, nevertheless I am heard over a wide distance".
No longer used as a church, but it is maintained and left open for people to look around or just sit quietly and meditate.
More info and history about this beautiful church in the link below. Hope you enjoyed.
http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/_churches/stpancras.php