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The top photograph, taken on the 20th of March 2020, shows a notice posted on the Church Street gate entering the southern churchyard of St. Petrock's Church in Timberscombe. The notice read "ST. PETROCK'S CHURCH REMAINS OPEN EVERYDAY DURING DAYLIGHT…

The gentleman in the foreground of the upper photograph is Rob Wilson-North, Head of Conservation & Access of the Exmoor National Park Authority, better known as ENPA. The date of this photograph is 5 June 2019 and Mr. Wilson-North had led a group on…

A photograph from a Sales Particulars sheet of a detached barn at the top of Church Street in the village of Timberscombe. The Sales Particular was printed by Chanin & Thomas, Chartered Surveyors, Auctioneers & Estate Agents at 8 The Parade,…

In 1950, a group called the Timberscombe Village Hall Committee of Management was formed with the intent of establishing a village hall. An agreement was reached with the National Council of Social Services and by the 24th June 1950, 416 square yards…

Photographs of two of the three surviving fragments of late-medieval glass that are found in St. Petrock's 3 -light window on the eastern end of the south aisle. The other stained glass windows in the church date from Victorian restorations. In 1862,…

Two photographs, taken c. 2019, that show the interior and the exterior of a small enclosed door on the south aisle wall of St. Petrock's Church at Timberscombe.

The doorway has become called the Tudor Door. St. Petrock's was known to be on this…

For any first time visitor arriving, after 2013, at Timberscombe's 12th century St. Petrock's Church (1) perhaps one of of the last things they will notice is a wall painting, bordered with an 18th century cartouche (2). They will have walked into…

In their 1955 publication, "THE VILLAGE OF TIMBERSCOMBE AND ITS CHURCH", churchwarden (and a farmer at Allercott) James Henderson and his brother Edward Henderson, The Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1960 to 1975 (1) wrote that it was clear that St.…

John Percival Martin is best remembered as J.P. Martin, the author of the six Uncle books, about Uncle, a millionaire elephant, normally attired in his purple dressing gown, living at Homeward with its hundred or so towers and illustrated by the…

A photograph of a group of the Timberscombe Bellringers and their driver, on what has been identified as a 1924 outing to Cheddar (1). They are in a charabanc, a large open-topped motorized vehicle equipped with rows of crosswise benches facing…