Stained Glass - St Thomas a Becket - Sourton, Devon
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N 50° 41.627 W 004° 04.456
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A single stained glass panel set in a two light window in St Thomas a Becket church, Sourton.
Waymark Code: WMY73P
Location: South West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 05/03/2018
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A single stained glass panel set in a two light window in St Thomas a Becket church, Sourton.
A colage of glass fragments set in this single small panel.
"On the edge of Dartmoor, in the village of Sourton, St Thomas a Becket is a 14th Century church founded on an earlier settlement - going back before 970 when Aelfgyth was Chaplain and it was likely that there was a simple church building on the site. It was dedicated in honour of St. Thomas a Becket in the 14th Century by descendents of two knights who had taken part in the murder of Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170 - Fitz Urse and William de Tracey, who were both Devon men. It appears that their successors may have wanted to clear their family names and appease their consciences by rededicating the churches to the Christian martyr. The church at Sourton - on a hillside site with wonderful views from the churchyard - has undergone numerous alterations over the centuries but remains a place of peace where prayer can come easily. 'A moorside church, to Tors akin, Grey without and calm within', in the words of Revd A Hunter, vicar of Sourton 1953-1963."
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