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Dist:0.2km<br/>A very frosty morning in Market Lavington with a hoar frost on all surfaces making it look like a black and white world
©Rog Frost
Dist:0.2km<br/>House on Drove Lane in the background (opposite entrance to Elisha Field)
©Peter Duffield
Dist:0.3km<br/>Although the Dragon slain by St George was actually green (but perhaps it became more red as the battle progressed!) a Green Dragon on its own is actually an Heraldic symbol. This symbol has Welsh origin, and represented loyalty to the Earls of Pembroke. Heraldically, the Green Dragon is more welsh than the Red Dragon, which appears on the principality's flag.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.3km<br/>The building dates from the 17th century and has a Tuscan style portico with a painted dragon on it. For a closer view of the sign [[1997534]]
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.3km<br/>The B3098 in the centre of the village. On the right are the Red House and the King's Arms.
©Andrew Smith
Dist:0.3km<br/>The main road through the village is quite narrow, built more for the horse and cart.
©roger geach
Dist:0.4km<br/>The church has its origins in the late 13th century and has had many additions over the centuries with restoration taking place in 1860 by Ewan Christian.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.4km<br/>The tower dates from the 15th century.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.4km<br/>It was a papal edict in the 9th century that was responsible for the proliferation of weathercocks on churches. This edict required every Church in Christendom to be mounted by a cockerel. This symbol was to recall Peter's betrayal of Christ (LUKE 22:34) "I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me". Although only the symbol of the cockerel was required by the edict, the motif, it seems, was quickly wedded with the weathervane. By the 13th century the word for weathercock (gallum) and weathervane (ventrologium) had become interchangeable. Interestingly, early weathercocks did not include cardinal letters, as Christian churches always lay east to west.
©Trish Steel
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©Mike Searle
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©Mike Searle
Dist:0.4km<br/>This fine monument of a weeping woman by Flaxman is to Thomas Sainsbury, Alderman of Billingsgate (1778), Sheriff of London & Middlesex (1780), and Lord Mayor of London (1786). He died in 1795. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2685443
©Mike Searle
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking West along the lower footpath through Canada, formerly Beech Wood.
©Philip Reed
Dist:0.4km<br/>An elegant wall tablet to the memory of John Legg who died in 1802, and also to three of his sisters: Jane died in 1816, and Mary in 1830, both spinsters. A third sister was Elizabeth Palmer, the widow of the late John Palmer, Clerk, and Vicar of Fordington in Dorset who died in 1829 aged 71.
©Mike Searle
Dist:0.4km<br/>A view of the nave.
©Mike Searle

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