Knowle Farm house is built around the traditional late medieval ‘hallhouse’ configuration which comprised three chambers and a cross passage. These chambers were originally built without an upper storey. The passage had an external door at either end and abutted on one side the ‘service room’, where food was prepared and other domestic tasks carried [...]
Archive for April, 2007
To ward off evil.
Posted in house, medieval on April 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »
A brief history of the wild west – Knowle in medieval times.
Posted in history, medieval on April 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
William Camden, in his antiquarian history Britannica, published in the late 16th century, tells us “Upon Creden is the primitive Church of the Saxons, there flourished an Episcopall Sea in a towne of the same name, anciently called Cridiantun, now by contraction Kirton, where that Winifride or Boniface was borne who converted the Haessians, Thuringers, [...]
Living on the edge of a volcano.
Posted in buildings, house, volcano on April 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, yes, but in this case literally too. My friend & neighbour, David Silvester, belongs to Probus, a lunchtime entertainment for the retired. He recently returned from a Geology session reporting he’d discovered ‘interesting facts’ about the neighbourhood. Now Geology doesn’t do much for me so I was gobsmacked to learn we actually live beside [...]
So farewell then, Knowle Farm…
Posted in Uncategorized on April 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So farewell then, Knowle Farm… … it really is time for us to go. We’ve raised our kids, lived 23 years in these peaceful Devon heartlands, and now find ourselves newbie grandparents. Foreseeing the time we lack sufficient reserves of energy or finance we’ll be selling our medieval farmhouse, courtyard of old buildings and fertile [...]
