Cullompton
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Cullompton (/kəˈlʌm(p)tən/) is a town and civil parish in the district of Mid Devon and the county of Devon, England. It is 13 miles (21 km) north-east of Exeter and lies on the River Culm. In 2011, the parish as a whole had a population of 8,499,[1] while the built-up area of the town had a population of 7,439.[2]
The earliest evidence of occupation is from the
In the past, the town's economy had a large component of wool and cloth manufacture, then, later, leather working and paper manufacture.
A large proportion of the town's inhabitants are
History
Toponymy and orthography
The derivation of the name Cullompton is disputed. One derivation is that the town's name means "Farmstead on the River Culm"[4] with Culm probably meaning knot or tie (referring to the river's twists and loops).[4] The other theory is that it is named after Saint Columba of Tir-de-Glas, who preached to West Saxons in 549 AD. The Revd Grubb also states that the parish church was probably formerly dedicated to St Columba (although for the last 500 years it has been dedicated to St Andrew) and that tradition records there was an ancient figure or image of Columba.[5] There are 40 recorded spellings of Cullompton between the first recorded use of the name and the present day,[6] and even as late as the mid-nineteenth century three spellings were in use: the post office spelled it Cullompton; in their 1809 first edition the Ordnance Survey map used Cullumpton and the railway station sign said Collumpton. The railway station sign was changed to Cullompton in 1874 and the Ordnance Survey used Cullompton in the edition of their map published in 1889.[7] It is affectionately known as Cully.[8]
Roman period
On St Andrew's Hill, to the north-west of Cullompton town centre, two Roman forts were discovered in 1984 by
Saxon period and middle ages
Saxon settlers moved into the Culm Valley in the seventh century and Cullompton was made the site of a
In 1278 the town was granted its first
English Civil War to the eighteenth century
In August 1642, during the
Troops passed through Cullompton on several occasions during the civil war:
In 1678 a local
Another local man called Tom Austin was hanged in August 1694. He inherited a farm with an annual income of £80 and then married the daughter of a neighbouring farmer with a dowry of £800. He lived an extravagant lifestyle and spent all of his money. His farm, having been neglected could not provide sufficient income for him and he borrowed a lot of money from neighbours and friends. He then turned to highway robbery and was moderately successful for a time. He shot Sir Zachary Wilmott during a robbery on the road between Wellington and Taunton. The proceeds from his crimes supported him for a time but in the long term he was unable to clear his debts. In 1694, following a row with his wife, he went to visit his uncle. His uncle was not at home and he killed his aunt and her five children and took around £60 from the house. On returning home he was asked about the bloodstains on his clothes by his wife. He then killed her and his two children. His uncle, who dropped in to visit him on his way home, knocked Austin unconscious and he was arrested and later hanged at Exeter Jail.[22][23]
The Cullompton Company of Volunteers (a voluntary body of soldiers) was first raised in 1794 and continued until 1810. The volunteer companies were formed following Britain's entry into the French Revolutionary Wars and continued to exist during the Napoleonic Wars. Cullompton was the first inland town to offer to raise a volunteer company (on 16 May 1794) and on 24 June the volunteers were accepted. The first commander, Captain Jarmin, was a former Marine officer. The company was formed into a battalion with 11 other volunteer companies called the Hayridge (later Highbridge) regiment. It had 1,200 men and three companies were based in Cullompton with a barracks in New Cut. Jarmin died in 1794 and was succeeded by Henry Skinner Esq. In 1801 the company became a cavalry troop and was then disbanded only to be reformed in 1805 when hostilities with France resumed. Many Cullompton men fought in the Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo.[24]
The first Nonconformist congregation began in 1662 when the vicar of Cullompton, Revd William Crompton, was ejected from the established church. He continued to preach and a Protestant
Nineteenth century to present
In 1805 or 1806 the last
There have been police stations in the town since 1857, when the first Police Station was rented. It had three cells and a petty session courtroom.[28] A new police station was built in 1974,[26] which underwent a major refurbishment in 2011, to become a police force hub for Mid Devon, with 72 staff members.[29] The town acquired its first steam-driven fire engine in 1914 which cost £100 and was paid for by voluntary subscription.[30]
In April 1903 a petition objecting to the renewal of
In 1920, a public company was formed to provide an electricity supply for Cullompton which merged with the Bradninch Electricity Company in 1927 to form the Culm Valley Electricity Supply Co. Ltd. A gasworks was set up in Cullompton in 1865 for the Cullompton Gas Light and Coke Co. This was taken over by the Devon Gas Association and nationalised in 1949. The gasworks was closed in 1956 and Cullompton was then supplied from Exeter.[36]
Another serious fire occurred on 17 October 1958, when Selwood's tannery in Exeter Street was gutted by fire; the site was subsequently used by a series of supermarkets.[30] It was run as a Gateway store and then as a Somerfield before closing in 2010.[37] Aldi re-opened on the site in April 2014 following a major refurbishment of the store.[38]
The town saw a major expansion in the 1970s as the construction of a bypass in 1969, and its conversion into part of the
In March 2010, it was announced that the town's magistrates' court was to be closed due its poor facilities and lack of rooms. It had been suggested that the site might be developed as a town hall or the site used as a car park.
The town got its first permanent library in 1938 in a building on Exeter Hill.[41] In September 2011, a new library opened on a new site, which was four times the size of the old one and cost three million pounds.[48] This was followed shortly afterwards, in December 2011, by the opening of the Cullompton Community Centre, costing 1.5 million pounds. The Tiverton Dramatic Society used the new venue to stage the first pantomime to be performed in Cullompton for 20 years.[49]
Historic estates
Within the parish of Cullompton are situated various historic estates including:
- The church of Cullompton and its land was given to Battle Abbey by William the Conqueror. The manor contained five sub-manors called Upton, Weaver, Ash, Colebrook and Henland (now in the parish of Kentisbeare). This manor later passed to St Nicholas Priory in Exeter.[50]
- Cullompton. At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, this manor was part of the royal manor of Silverton and so not recorded separately. Before the conquest it was held by King Edward. In 1291 this manor was given to Buckland Abbey by Isabella Countess of Devon.[51]
- Padbrook and Newland were also smaller parts of Silverton in Domesday.[51]
- Colebrook was also a Domesday manor. William Cheever was the tenant-in-chief and it was held by Manfred. Alward held it before 1066. It was given to Ford Abbey by Henry de Tracey.[52]
- Hillersdon, was held by Sherwold before 1066. Reginald held it from Odo FitzGamelin at the time of Domesday and was later held of the Honour of Torrington.[53]
- Two manors named Ponsford were recorded in the Domesday Book and were both held by William from Baldwin the Sheriff. Before 1066, one of the manors was held by Sidwin and one by Edwin.[54]
- Langford was also held from Baldwin by Rainer at the time of Domesday. The manor was previously held by Brictmer.[55] Along with Ponsford it later formed part of the Honour of Okehampton and was held by the Courtneys.[56]
- There are two estates named Aller in the Domesday Book. One of these lay within the Parish of Cullompton and was held by Ralph Pagnell. Within the manor were Whitheathfield and an unidentified place named Frieland. Bolealler may have also been part of this manor. Along with Kerswell, Aller was granted to Montacute Priory by Matilda Peverel and a cell was established at Kerswell Priory.[57]
- Moor Hayes, for many centuries the seat of the prominent Moor (alias Moore) family, which was responsible for the Moore Chantry / Moor Hayes Chapel at the east end of the north aisle of Cullompton Church.
Economic history
Cullompton has a long history of manufacturing, first with wool and cloth manufacture, and then later with leather working and light industry.
Cloth trade
In the 15th century the weaving of fine
Mills powered by the town leat
A leat runs to the east of the town's main street but it is uncertain when it was first constructed. By the early seventeenth century, the southern end of the leat and one mill are shown on a map. There were three main mills: Higher Mill, Lower Mill and Middle Mill. Higher Mill appears to have always been a corn mill and it continued to produce animal feed until 1974. It has since been converted to housing but a water turbine remains.[61] Middle Mill was used as a woollen mill in the nineteenth century and was also associated with Bilbie's bell foundry (see below).[61] Around 1900, the mill was steam powered and had a boiler delivered. It is labelled as an axle works on the 1904 Second Edition Ordnance Survey map.[62] The only remains of Middle Mill are some walls and a chimney base.[61] Lower Mill ceased working in 1968. The building is now in residential use but the sluices (made by Stenner and Gunn of the Lowman Ironworks, Tiverton) can still be seen, as can the water wheel and gearing.[63]
Tanning
Tanning in Cullompton goes back to at least the sixteenth century and in the nineteenth century there were three tanneries: Crow Green, Lower King's Mill and Court Tannery. The tannery at Higher King's Mill was active between about 1830 and 1875 and employed 12 labourers in 1851 and 9 a decade later. Court Tannery was established by 1871 and had closed by 1906. It was located at the north end of the town behind Court House, which was the residence of the owners of the tannery. In 1871 it employed 21 men and was probably steam-powered. A local tanner, James Whitby, along with George Bodley and John Davis patented an improved bark mill (used to grind bark for producing tanbark used in the tanning process).
The Crow Green tannery was situated at the south-west end of the town and was already in existence in 1816. It had a water-powered bark mill and 47 tan pits at that date. It was owned by the Selwood family for much of the 19th and 20th centuries, who probably purchased it from James Whitby around 1830, and it was often referred to as Selwood's tannery. It suffered from fires in 1831, 1867 and 1958. In 1881 it employed 48 people and over 100 in 1958 (8% of the local workforce at the time). One of the major products of the factory in the nineteenth century was high-quality sole leather, but during the Second World War, only poor-quality hides, such as buffalo, were allocated to the firm. The business was badly damaged by the invention of rubber stick-on shoe soles which reduced the demand for sole leather from shoe repairers. It finally finished operation in 1967 when the leather side of the business was sold to a Yorkshire firm.
The building to the north-west of Exeter Hill, which formerly housed the water-powered bark mill, is now an antiques warehouse and the remains of the leat and tail race can still be seen. This side of the site was also the location of the lime yard. The other half of the site, to the south-east of Exeter Hill, which was the location of the tan yard, is now the site of an Aldi supermarket.[27][64][65]
In addition to tanning, the leather industry included a leather dressing works (founded in 1921 and which closed in 1982)[66] and a glove maker, Drevon and Brown.[67]
Paper making
The first paper mill in Cullompton dates from 1729, with mills being set up near by at Hele and Higher Kensham in 1767, at Lower Kensahm c1788 and Langford c 1788. These would have been small water-powered vat mills, where paper was made by hand, generally by women and children.[68] Records show that the mill in Cullompton was owned by a Mr Simon Mills in 1757 and was taken over by a Mr Theodore Dart in 1799. There followed a number of different owners of whom one of the most significant was Albert Reed who purchased the mill in 1883. His brother, William Reed, established a partnership with a Mr C King Smith. The Reed & Smith group (which acquired New Taplow Mill in 1950) became one of the biggest papermakers in the UK. A
Cabinet making
Luxtons
A former employee of Luxtons, William Broom, started his own cabinet making business in 1920 and employed 7 or 8 workmen until the 1930s when the
Haulage
Mark Whitton founded Whitton's in the early 1900s carrying timber with a horse and cart. After World War I the company carried coal to the gas works and local paper mills. In 1923 they bought their first Sentinel steam lorry and carried paper to Bristol, returning with animal feed. During the Second World War they were run by the Ministry of Transport and after the war were nationalised to become part of British Road Services. The brothers who had owned the company moved back into haulage, setting up a new firm which went into receivership in the 1970s and was then bought by Wild Transport of Exeter in 1973.[74]
Bell foundry and clock making
A Cullompton man called Chubb travelled widely to repair bells during the reign of James I. In 1745 a vestry meeting determined that in order to reduce the cost of having the church bells repaired, the bells should be cast in some part of the almshouses, and a bell founder be found to work there. In 1746
The Bilbie family were also involved in clock making. In 1749 Thomas Biblie (senior) was asked to make a set of chimes for Cullompton church. Thomas II worked on clock mechanisms to play tunes on church bells at East Coker and also at Beaminster. Thomas Castleman is recorded as having made a clock for Cullompton Church in 1811 at a cost of £55.[77]
Other industries
There was also a jam factory, 'Devon Dale Jam' in the 1930s[67] and a foundry.[80]
Governance
The town and
From
It is part of the Tiverton and Honiton constituency and its MP since the 2022 Tiverton and Honiton by-election is Richard Foord. It was formerly part of the Northern Parliamentary Division of Devon (1831–67), the North Division (1867–85), the North Eastern Division (1885–1918) and the Honiton Division.[87]
Geography
Cullompton is 4 miles (6.4 km) south-east of Tiverton,[88] 13 miles (21 km) north-north-east of Exeter and 149 miles (240 km) west-south-west of London.[89] It is at about 70 m above sea level.[89] The parish covers nearly 8,000 acres (32 km2) and stretches for 7 miles (11 km) along the Culm valley.[8]
Demography
At the
In 2011 there were 6,153 people aged 16 to 74 living in the parish. 4,591 were economically active of whom 177 were unemployed and 1,562 were economically inactive of whom 867 were retired.[92] Figures in 2011 on ethnic composition for Cullompton were: White English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 94.2%, White other 3.6% and White Irish 0.3%.[93] The parish's religious composition was 61.8% Christian, 28.7% no religion and 8.5% religion not stated.[94]
Population trends
In 1660 the population of the town (only including the urban parts of the parish) has been estimated at 1,800, which made it the 10th largest town in Devon and Cornwall. The town's population grew to 2,750 by 1750 (meaning it was the 8th largest town) but it then fell rapidly so that it was only 2,275 by 1805 – only the 23rd largest town in Devon and Cornwall. This fall in population, in a period when many other towns grew rapidly, was probably due to the decline in the importance of the cloth trade in this period.[95] The population of the parish changed little from the start of the 19th century until the 1970s, remaining at around 3,000 (see chart). However it increased rapidly in the last part of the 20th century and the start of the 21st. Cullompton's population growth looks set to continue as Mid Devon's core strategy foresees 95 new dwellings being built per year in the period to 2026.[96]
Economy
In 2001 the proportion of people living and working in Cullompton was 43% with 19% of the town's working population employed in Exeter.[96]
Retail
In 2001 the retail sector in Cullompton met fairly local needs only.[96] The town currently has two supermarkets, Tesco, which opened in September 2008[97] and Aldi which opened in April 2014.[38] Mole Valley Farmers has a store in the town which sells a wide range of goods including farm requirements, garden supplies and hardware.[98]
The Cullompton street market came to an end in the late 1950s but it was revived for a trial period of seven weeks starting on Saturday 28 June 2008.[99] Although in the initial few weeks trading was good, overall takings for the traders were disappointing.[100] The town also has an indoor market in the town hall every Wednesday[99][101]
A farmers' market held in Cullompton is the oldest event of its kind in the South West.[102] It was Tracey Frankpitt's idea, and after much work, the first market was held on 13 June 1998. She was later consulted by the producers of the long running radio soap opera The Archers and the Cullompton farmers' market was mentioned in one of the episodes.[43] It is held monthly on the second Saturday of the month.[103]
There is an active traders group (Cullompton Traders Association) which holds a range of events.[104] The Bullring Market has been relaunched since Dec 2012 and continues into 2013 every Wednesday and Saturday.
Kingsmill industrial estate
Mid Devon District Council owns 11 industrial units at the Kingsmill industrial estate[105] which are let by a variety of businesses. Business based on the estate include Gregory Distribution,[106][107] who have 27,000 square feet (2,500 m2) of temperature controlled storage which they use for a contract to deliver chilled and frozen goods to Spar stores in the southwest.[108] There is also a flour mill, milk depot, marketing and advertising agency and an industrial clothing shop as well as Higher Kings Mill.[109][110]
Culture and community
The town has an annual Christmas parade to celebrate the switching on of the town's Christmas lights[111] and a festival week in the summer which includes the annual town fayre (formerly known as the Cullompton Town Picnic and Classic Car Show).[112]
Community facilities improved during 2011, with the completion of two projects. The first was a 'community hub' called 'The Hayridge', which opened in September. The facility, which is open six days a week, has a public lending library and cafe with free Wi-Fi access, IT suites and conference facilities. The office space is used by Cullompton Adult Community Learning which was previously based at the local secondary school.[48][113][114] Cullompton Adult Community Learning is run by Devon County Council and offers a range of courses for adult learners ranging from Indian Head Massage to French for Beginners. Courses are run in the Hayridge's learning suites on the first floor.[115] The second major project completed in 2011 was the Cullompton Community centre, which opened in December. This is a 9,250-square-foot (859 m2) building created for community use with sponsorship from St Andrew's church and with grants from Devon County Council and Uffculme Environmental Fund, donations from church members, and money from the South West of England Regional Development Agency. The main meeting area has seating capacity for 180 people, and there are five further meeting rooms as well as offices, kitchens and toilets.[116]
A major recreational area for the town is the Cullompton Community Association's fields which cover 32 acres (13 ha) in the centre of the town. The fields are used for a variety of events, which include a circus, whippet racing and a firework display. The Association is a registered charity which was formed in 1970 to provide a recreation area for the town. It purchased the fields, which are next to the riverside walk along the leat, for £11,500. The site was chosen as the water meadows needed to be maintained to help prevent flooding and it was also close to the cricket and bowling clubs.[117][118] Youth activities have been provided by a youth centre called the John Tallack Centre since it opened in 1988.[119][120]
In February 2008 the Culm Valley Integrated Centre for Health opened in Cullompton.[121] The services provided at the site include: the College Surgery Partnership which is a large general practice with ten doctors;[122] complementary therapies provided by Culm Valley
Natural Health;
Cullompton United Charities provides a number of
Media
Local TV coverage is provided by BBC South West and ITV West Country. Television signals are received Stockland Hill and local relay TV transmitters.[131][132]
Local radio stations are BBC Radio Devon, Heart West, Greatest Hits Radio South West, Radio Exe, East Devon Radio, and TCR Radio, a community-based station which broadcast from Tiverton.[133]
The town is served by the local newspaper, Culm Valley Gazette. [134]
Landmarks
The street plan of the town still reflects the medieval layout of the town. Most shops lie along Fore Street with courts behind them linked by alleyways. The length of the high street reflects the prosperity of the town from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century when it was a centre of the cloth trade.[135] The street plan is still fundamentally the same as shown on a map of 1663, with a wider area at the North end where markets were held, roads to Tiverton and Ponsford and a small lane leading down to a mill (now known as Lower Mill). This map has only two buildings with roofs coloured blue (conventionally meaning they were of slate) – St Andrew's church and the Walronds.[136] There are two grade I listed buildings in Cullompton: the fifteenth century parish church (St Andrew's) and the Walronds at 6 Fore Street. There are also seven grade II* listed buildings and ninety grade II listed buildings.[137] The centre of the town is a conservation area, first designated in 1977,[3] with further planning protections implemented in 2009.[138] Hillersdon House, a Victorian manor house is near to the town centre and within the parish.[139]
The Walronds
The Walronds was probably built in 1605 which is the date over the hall fireplace. John Peter, a lawyer, acquired the property by marriage into the Paris family and his initials are over the fireplace. The plan is a traditional one with the ground floor hall divided from the entrance passage by a screen. The main range has three storeys and there are two wings which are both two storeys high. In the upper south-east room is a barrel shaped ceiling and a second fireplace with the date 1605. The association with the prominent local gentry family of Walrond of Bradfield House only dates from the eighteenth century.[135]
It is now owned by Cullompton Walronds Preservation Trust which was registered as a charity and as a private company limited by guarantee in the spring of 1997. It inherited half the building in 2005 from Miss June Severn and bought the other half. In 2008 the building became the only building in Mid Devon to be put on
The upper floors of the house, the inner garden and car park will be leased to the Vivat Trust for holiday lettings. The trust will retain the three rooms adjoining the path from Fore Street for public use. These comprise a meeting room, a kitchen and a lavatory. Additionally, the Trust plans to convert the garden which stretches back to Shortlands Lane into a park for the people of the town.[144]
St Andrew's Church
The nave and chancel are carried on five pairs of piers and the interior has a boarded wagon roof coloured in blue, crimson and gold which stretches the whole length of the church. At the time of the construction of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, William Froude – the engineer given responsibility for this section of the line by Isambard Kingdom Brunel – inserted iron stringers to prevent the walls from spreading as a result of vibrations from the trains.[14] A screen runs across the whole width of the church.
At the end of the nave is a
The central window of the North Aisle is a
On the south side of the church is the first major addition to the church: Lane's Aisle. This was built 1526–1529 by a local cloth merchant, John Lane (d.1529). It is fan vaulted in a style inspired by the Dorset aisle at Ottery St Mary and some of the carvings are similar to John Greenway's Chapel at Tiverton. John Lane and wife are buried at the east end of the aisle.[145]
Cullompton Manor House
The building is currently on the Heritage at Risk Register following a serious deterioration in its condition which led to concerns for public safety, and the issuing of a repairs notice under section 48 of Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 by Mid Devon District Council.[151]
Cullompton Leat
Running parallel to the main high street is a leat with a public footpath running along it. The leat runs from Head Weir, north of Cullompton, and takes its water from the Spratford Stream. It flows past three former watermills (Upper, Middle and Lower Mill) and then empties into the Culm near First Bridge. It is uncertain when the leat was first made but the south end of the leat and Lower Mill are shown on an early seventeenth-century map. The leat is no longer in use for powering mills and the Environment Agency is not interested in managing the leat nor keeping it flowing so the Cullompton Leat Conservancy Board was formed to restore and maintain the Leat in 2005.[61]
Transport
Roads
Junction 28 of the M5 lies within the parish of Cullompton and a short distance from the town centre. Other major road links are the A373 to
There are two routes for relief roads being considered by Mid Devon District Council – a western route and an eastern route. If a lower growth option is chosen it is proposed that only the western route would be constructed. An alternative Outer Eastern Relief Road crossing the M5 at Old Hill was rejected as the existing bridges would need rebuilding, making the cost prohibitive.[159] There is some opposition to both routes – a group called Cullompton Against Western Relief Road has been formed to oppose one route[160] and there is also opposition to the eastern route which passes through the Cullompton Community Fields.[161]
Railways
The
Railway station reopening
Devon County Council's Travel Transport Plan includes the reopening of Cullompton railway station,[165] and in July 2016 Mid Devon District Council announced that it would spend £40k on engineering design work to test the viability of their concept for a new station. This matched a previous commitment by Taunton Deane Borough Council of £40,000 and £10,000 contributions from the Town Councils of Cullompton and Wellington.[166] The Cullompton Reopening Plan was a successful bidder in the May 2020 Round of the Department of Transport Ideas Fund.
Buses
The 1 and 373 buses run by Stagecoach South West provide regular bus services to Tiverton and Exeter. There is also a town circular bus run by Dartline. An express bus from Plymouth to Bristol, branded the SW Falcon and run by Stagecoach, stops at Cullompton.[167]
Education
Cullompton has two
Religious sites
As well as the Parish church, St Andrew (see
Sports and leisure
Local teams and clubs
Cullompton
The local football team is
Cullompton cricket club was established in 1892 and they play at Landspeed Meadow, by the Cullompton Community Association Fields.[188] There are also a variety of other clubs including several bowls clubs and badminton, running, squash, and Taekwondo martial arts clubs.[189][190]
Sports and leisure facilities
The town has a sports centre, Culm Valley Sports Centre, which is currently run by Mid Devon District Council. It was opened in 1985 and facilities include a fitness studio, an all-weather pitch, a sports hall, squash courts and a sauna.[191] The town is also home to Padbrook Park – a golf course and sporting and recreational centre which first opened in March 1992.[192] The facilities include a Parkland Golf Course, a Golf School, a 40-bedroom hotel, conference suites, health & fitness centre, indoor bowls, fishing lake, beauty salon, restaurants and a sports bar[193]
Notable people
- Painter and architect John Shute (d. 1563) was born in Cullompton.[194]
- Architect Charles Fowler (1792–1867) was born in Cullompton.[195]
- Richard Crosse (1742–1810), painter, was born in Knowle, a hamlet in the parish.[196]
- Edward Ellicott (1768–1847), naval officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, was baptised in Cullompton.
- The puritan clergyman Thomas Manton (1620–1677) was town lecturer around 1644.[197]
- The engineer William Froude (1810–1879) lived in Cullompton and was churchwarden in 1842–44.[198]
- The historian WG Hoskins (1908–1992) died in the town on 11 January 1992.[199]
- The singer Joss Stone (b. 1987) lives near Cullompton.[200]
- John Lane (d. 1528), cloth merchant, builder of the Lane Chapel in St Andrew's Church, Cullompton.
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