Budehaven Church

[debris4spike]

As I have already posted today, I took my camera for a walk on Monday - mostly to have a look around the Church, having enjoyed some of the pics that curiouswombat has recently posted.

The Parish Church at Bude is the youngest by several centuries of the Curches in North Cornwall. Built in 1834/5 by George Wightwick, it was the gift of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland. The church reflects the history of the area which it serves, which had enjoyed a new prosperity with the cutting of the Bude Canal, at great expense, between 1819-26.

St Michael's was originally built as a Chapel of Ease to nearby Stratton Church, and only later became the parish church of Bude Haven as the town expanded with the advent of the London and South Western Railway in the 1890's and its new found popularity as a holiday resort - somewhat sharply described by John Betjemen as "an East Anglian resort facing the wrong way".

St Michaels is Anglo-Catholic (High Church) - and below the cut are a few pictures ...











 

I was amazed by the age of this soldier.





Bude, as I often say, faces the Atlantic, so there are a fair number of graves of those who died as a result of this ...



 

Lost at sea is common - this man fell off the cliffs.







And, finally, if Spike had been born in Bude, then maybe he would not have lived past his first birthday -





 

Comments

[strikske.livejournal.com]

Great pictures. What nice to have a church with this much history.

So many different people have there final resting place there, each with a story of there own. Makes you think of the time they lived and died.

[debris4spike]

I can spend hours wandering round cemetaries and Churchyards - as you say so many people - loves, lives, hopes.

[kudagirl.livejournal.com]

So much history recorded on these stones. Love your photos. They always spark emotions.

[debris4spike]

Thanks - I'm glad you see some of what I see.

[louise39.livejournal.com]

Love these photos. There is a quiet, respectful beauty that shines.

[debris4spike]

Thank you - It is lovely to share another corner of my world.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

What an impressive church, especially to have been built as a chapel of ease to start with. It does look very high church, doesn't it?

And what a fascinating grave yard, too. Your 58 year old soldier matches some of the ones I found in Patrick.

I wonder if the Bencoolen belonged to the British East India Company - I'm betting she sailed those routes anyway.

The grave of the children is particularly sad, somehow, the way they kept trying to name a son William. I found that in my family tree in a few places - the first-born named after the father, and the second born, and the third born...

[debris4spike]

It was seeing those pictures that sent me out with my camera!

I have tried finding details about the wreck, and can't! Only that it happened ... but did learn here that Bencoolen is what is now Southwest Sumatra.

It is sad seeing these youngsters graves ... my own grandfather is a second William to be born as the first died at weeks old.

[jaded-jamie.livejournal.com]

Look at the Lichens on that last grave! Beautiful! This web site about them is uber :)

What a lovely Church and so sad to read of the shipwreck too.

Thanks for sharing these Debs *hug*

[debris4spike]

Thanks for that link on lichen - amazing how different people spot different things in the same view.

Bude Church is so lovely and "square" ... but I do prefer the other local Churches that sre 14 - 16th century ones ... the stonework there are amazing.

But, all in all a lot of prayers over the year.

[jaded-jamie.livejournal.com]

I've been fascinated with Lichens since I was told what those blobs were on this TV show and they're a very rare and endangered form of life. They grow so slowly... Oh anyway I'll shut up LOL

[debris4spike]

I suppose I hadn't thought about their slow growth rate ... you get used to seeing them, yet the stones they are on are decades old.

I'll be more aware of Creation in the future, I promise!

[jaded-jamie.livejournal.com]

Well to be fair, I always they were like bird poo that had gone mouldy or something, but mostly I didn't really think about those blobs on gravestones LOL But when I watched that wildlife show and they were talking about them, they're really fascinating things. Or perhaps I just need to get a life LOL!

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

What a lovely clear sky in the photos! The view from the churchyard is lovely.

[debris4spike]

We have had some gorgeous weather over the last couple of weeks - so I have tried to do a few walks.

We do have great scenery in North Cornwall.