Buckland-in-the-Moor, Devon - St. Peter's Church, unusual clockface - postcard

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  St. Peter's Church, Buckland-in-the-Moor, Devon  - shows inset of unusual clockface
• Publisher:  Henry Bradford & Sons, Ashburton - c.1960s
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Buckland in the Moor is a village and civil parish in the Teignbridge district of Devon, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 94. The village is in Dartmoor.

The church is made of stone quarried on the moor. The face of the clock spells out My Dear Mother. The baptismal font is Norman, and decorated with leaves and stars.

Nearby there is a viewpoint called Buckland Beacon where you can also find the 10 Commandment Stones(1282 ft)

In 1927 The Lord of Buckland Manor, Mr Whitley, learnt that parliament had rejected a proposed revision of the Book of Common Prayer using Jesus' Two Commandments instead of Moses' Ten, at Holy Communion.

He celebrated by engaging Mr W A Clements, a stonemason from Exeter, to engrave granite stones in situ on Buckland Beacon with the Ten Commandments. He started work on 15 December 1927 and completed the job on 14 June 1928. Whilst engraving the stones he lived in a cow shed on the site and was supplied each week with a loaf of bread by Mr Whitley.

In later years Mr Clements said, ""Day after day I was on my knees chipping away and I wondered if the originator of the Commandments suffered from an aching back and sore knees as I did"". If you glance at the stones you will find eleven commandments the eleventh inscribed, 'A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another. John 13 v34.'

type=printed

city/ region=buckland-in-the-moor

period=post-war (1945-present)

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number of items=single

size=continental/ modern (150x100 mm)