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~ All Saints, East Budleigh
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Here in East Budleigh at Hayes
Barton farmhouse is where Sir Walter Raleigh was born. Raleigh's
father was churchwarden in the church a mile from the farm. In the
church the 60 bench ends depict many scenes including ships in a
storm, a Red Indian, a figure like a Pharaoh, Dragons, Monsters and
faces. On one pew are the arms of the Raleigh family. The church has
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is a barrel roof. The pulpit has seventy figures carved in it and is
the work of Henry Hems of Exeter. In the centre of the nave is an
ancient memorial a stone with engraved cross in memory of Raleigh's
fathers first wife Joan Drake. |
| Photograph courtesy
of A.Gordon Derrick |
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