HERITAGE OPEN DAY!
FREE ADMISSION TO HISTORIC BUILDINGS IN THE TOWN.
Saturday 11th September 2010
St Leonards Clock Tower will be open from 10:00-1:00
2:00-4:00
Wolborough Manor House open from 10:00-4:00
(Mid-Devon Advertiser)
Sunday 12th September 2010
Ford House open from 10:00-4:00
Tours of the house will start 11:00 & 2:00
ADMISSION FREE!
The museums key project is to
restore a local very rare
Renaissance oak screen.
The screen (now in pieces) is a very finely carved wooden screen. It consisted of sixteen carved wooden panels held within a framework of supporters and caryatids.
Each panel is unique, and contains designs and images of among other things pipers and profiles of faces within roundels.
The screen is thought to have been originally housed in St Leonard's Chapel (the Clock Tower is all that remains of the Chapel today).
When the nave of the Chapel was demolished in 1836, the panels were purchased by local industrialist,
George Templer (of Haytor Granite Railway fame). He used the renaissance panels to embellish the main chimney breast of his grand residence in Newton Abbot-Sandford Orleigh.
The screen if it could talk,
would have witnessed many interesting conversations and scenes beneath its ornate carvings.
The Victorian Explorer Sir Samuel White Baker, who discovered the source of the White Nile, retired to Sandford Orleigh.
The screen would have been admired by his many illustrious guests, including the Prince of Wales and General Gordon of Khartoum. Gordon succeeded Baker as Governor of the Khartoum region, and spent his last night in England with the Bakers in 1884.
The screen has been saved from destruction by George Templer in the past, and it falls to our generation to save it from future deterioration now.
The fund raising bid to save the screen has begun, applications to the Heritage Lottery Fund and many other funders are underway. We still need more help to complete the task.
WE NEED TO RAISE £50,000 TO CONSERVE THIS IMPORTANT
LOCAL AND NATIONAL TREASURE!
CAN YOU HELP US WITH A DONATION, HOWEVER BIG OR SMALL?
If you would like to become part of the project by making a donation
or by fund raising, in some way for it, you would be most welcome.
Please contact Felicity Cole on museum@newtonabbot-tc.gov.uk-Thank you.
Photos will follow shortly
or go to Newton Abbot Town Council website in the
Museum section
FRIENDS OF THE MUSEUM TALKS-SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 2010.
23rd Sept 2010 Protecting Dartmoor's Past by Jane Marchand
(Dartmoor National Park)
28th Oct 2010 Songs by local singer songwriter
Nicky Swann
18th Nov 2010 ‘Haig' a short play performed
by Nick Lucas.
2nd Dec 2010 An evening of ‘Gilbert & Sullivan'
with Mike Sabel.
7.15 pm. at the Town Hall Council Chamber
£3:00 on the door, or become a Friend for an annual fee of £8:00.
supported by: Devon County Council - The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter - MLA Renaissance in the Regions
designed by imaginarium built by light source