Latest Images by Paul Hutchinson https://www.geograph.ie/ 2026-06-03T23:22:23+00:00 text/html 2019-11-08T17:58:05+00:00 https://www.geograph.ie/profile/15156 Paul Hutchinson 51.851395 -8.279940 https://www.geograph.ie/photo/6317165 A small harbour or jetty at Cobh with the local pilot boat. text/html 2019-11-08T16:58:40+00:00 https://www.geograph.ie/profile/15156 Paul Hutchinson 50.458065 -3.540569 https://www.geograph.ie/photo/6317112 Image captured from the pavement on Torbay Road. text/html 2019-11-08T16:46:12+00:00 https://www.geograph.ie/profile/15156 Paul Hutchinson 50.432579 -3.556638 https://www.geograph.ie/photo/6317099 Image of the northern side of Paignton harbour just after a short shower text/html 2010-12-05T17:26:15+00:00 https://www.geograph.ie/profile/15156 Paul Hutchinson 50.435097 -3.563339 https://www.geograph.ie/photo/2187000 Showing the rear facade of the properties on Torbay Road, Paignton as seen from Queens Road. text/html 2010-12-05T17:08:16+00:00 https://www.geograph.ie/profile/15156 Paul Hutchinson 50.434022 -3.563022 https://www.geograph.ie/photo/2186952 Rugby Football has been played in Paignton since 1873, Paignton Rugby Football Club moved to its present home Queens Park in 1902 and has played there ever since. The clubhouse also plays host to Paignton Cricket Club. text/html 2010-12-05T16:59:29+00:00 https://www.geograph.ie/profile/15156 Paul Hutchinson 50.432215 -3.563667 https://www.geograph.ie/photo/2186928 St. Andrew's Church is a Grade II Listed building - This text from http://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-383851-parish-church-of-st-andrew-paignton Parish church. 1892-1897 to the designs of Fulford, Tait and Harvey; W end completed by WD Caroe 1929-1930. Tall town church in Free French Gothic style with Arts and Crafts details. MATERIALS: Local red snecked breccia with yellow sandstone dressings; red tile roof; original cast-iron rainwater goods. PLAN: Nave; chancel; N and S two-bay transepts; N and S five-and-a-half bay aisles; NE lady chapel; SE vestry; entrance on SW side. EXTERIOR: Deep battered plinth. Buttressed chancel with central buttress with set-offs and gable below traceried roundel window. Basement level with ogival-headed slit windows and doorways with depressed ogival heads. S return of chancel has unusual paired lancet window in stone recess with buttress-like detail in the centre; gabled stone bellcote. Lady Chapel has semi-circular end and a conical tiled roof; 3 trefoil-headed windows in round-headed arches with moulded string below the sills. Easternmost bay of north aisle is the heavily buttressed base of the unconstructed tower and has been roofed over with a hipped roof with deep eaves on timber brackets above louvred panels. N transept has 2 gables to the N with round windows with free flamboyant tracery. N aisle divided between 2 eastern bays, buttressed with lean-to roof and a western section containing the baptistry. Eastern bays have square-headed 3-light windows, baptistry has 2-light transomed window with cusped lights in a square-headed frame. Nave has a clerestorey with 2 pairs of windows to each buttressed bay, windows with cusped arched heads. S side has a similar transept and 2-bay eastern section to aisle. To the west there is a S porch with a canted corner and segmental-headed arch, 3-light square-headed cusped window above. East end has flat-roofed wrap-around vestry with a parapet and small 2- and 3-light windows with a doorway on the east return. West end is buttressed with a 2-light window in a 3-centred stone frame, each light with Y tracery and cusped head, traceried roundel in square frame in gable. Steps up to projecting W porch with angle buttresses and a moulded arched doorway recessed under a segmental stone arch which acts as a porch hood. INTERIOR: Moulded chancel arch on shafts supported on corbels carved with 6-winged angles. Moulded arches to arcades which have alternating octagonal and cylindrical piers with detached Purbeck shafts. Clerestory windows have internal trefoil-headed arches on shafts. Chancel has a 2-bay archway into the Lady Chapel with a blind vessica in the tympanum. Keeled roofs to transepts; keeled boarded wagon roof to nave. FITTINGS: 1950s reredos, mosaic chancel floor, sedilia with timber canopy, choir stalls with carved bench ends; marble chancel rail with brattished ironwork. Lavish pulpit by Hems and Son of Exeter with an octagonal bowl with inlaid marble and alabaster figures in niches. Octagonal late medieval font, formerly at the medieval parish church of St John the Baptist, with a C15 bowl on a replaced stem. Elaborate timber font cover to Caroe's designs, dated 1912 (disused at time of survey) with figures in niches and crocketed pinnacles and gables. STAINED GLASS: Good set of late C19 stained glass and attractive Art Nouveau leaded glass in the heads of some of the plain windows. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: 836). text/html 2010-11-17T17:00:33+00:00 https://www.geograph.ie/profile/15156 Paul Hutchinson 50.456395 -3.544459 https://www.geograph.ie/photo/2164748 A grey, windy day and the sea is coming over the sea wall at Torquay. Many cars are getting a free, if somewhat salty wash. A somewhat different view to the photo by Derek Harper [[594346]] taken from just a few yards away. text/html 2010-11-15T01:08:31+00:00 https://www.geograph.ie/profile/15156 Paul Hutchinson 50.455725 -3.520207 https://www.geograph.ie/photo/2160783 This is a minewatcher's post built during WW2 with views over the approaches to Torquay harbour. Now disused, of course, but it provides a haven for a colony of bats. text/html 2009-06-18T12:34:30+00:00 https://www.geograph.ie/profile/15156 Paul Hutchinson 50.530533 -3.528537 https://www.geograph.ie/photo/1360055 A view along Dagra Lane, a 'Green Lane' south west of Ringmore. text/html 2009-06-18T12:31:05+00:00 https://www.geograph.ie/profile/15156 Paul Hutchinson 50.535795 -3.518123 https://www.geograph.ie/photo/1360051 A thatched building by a road junction in Ringmore. text/html 2009-06-18T12:25:49+00:00 https://www.geograph.ie/profile/15156 Paul Hutchinson 50.539126 -3.531637 https://www.geograph.ie/photo/1360049 A view, between two cottages near Ringmore, of the Teign Estuary. text/html 2009-06-17T12:23:23+00:00 https://www.geograph.ie/profile/15156 Paul Hutchinson 50.534583 -3.575516 https://www.geograph.ie/photo/1358498 The parking area, and beyond a few trees the cricket field itself. text/html 2009-06-17T12:17:33+00:00 https://www.geograph.ie/profile/15156 Paul Hutchinson 50.519909 -3.583209 https://www.geograph.ie/photo/1358486 A suburban road leading from Milber Woods, behind the photographer, towards the Aller valley. text/html 2009-06-17T12:10:34+00:00 https://www.geograph.ie/profile/15156 Paul Hutchinson 50.520373 -3.601846 https://www.geograph.ie/photo/1358474 A view to the south across the water sports landing area towards some of the surrounding woodland. Once a clay quarry, Decoy Country Park provides a children's play area, water sports lake, and deciduous woodland trails. More information available at http://www.teignbridge.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=8650 text/html 2009-06-17T12:06:53+00:00 https://www.geograph.ie/profile/15156 Paul Hutchinson 50.521085 -3.602434 https://www.geograph.ie/photo/1358468 Once a clay quarry, Decoy Country Park provides a children's play area, water sports lake, and deciduous woodland trails. More information available at http://www.teignbridge.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=8650