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~ St.Nonna, Bradstone ~

Bradstone Church, dedicated to St Nonna was first consecrated in 1261. St Nonna brought Christianity to this part of Devon in the 5th century, she came from Pembrokeshire. St Nonna died in Cornwall in the village of Alternun. The Church is small and stands in a walled graveyard. The tower is pinnacled, through the plain Norman doorway into the porch notice its barrel roof with bosses of flowers. The chancel dates from the 13th century, there is a fine font. On the wall is a strange carved stone head (below left) also just to one side of the entrance is this trangular recess in the wall (below right) possibly for Holy water.

Outside by the tower a stone inscribed John Coumbe was six score years when he died in 1602. Opposite lies the impressive entrance to the Tudor Hall through the old Tudor gatehouse, above the arch is a room with its six pinnacled gables. The Hall was the home of the Cloberrys for 13 generations.

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