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Some Notes on the Church and Parish of Churston Ferrers

Trans. Devon. Assoc. vol. 36 (1904) pp. 506-516.

by

Maxwell Adams

Prepared by Michael Steer

Four families have dominated the history of Churston - Bozun, Ferrers, Yarde and Buller - and their heraldic shields are featured on a stained-glass window of St Mary the Virgin church. It was built beside the manor house as a private chapel for the Ferrers family who handed it over to local parishioners in 1490. In 1955, Agatha Christie donated the royalties from her short story Greenshaw's Folly to the church, to pay for a new stained glass window. The east-facing window was designed by Bideford artist James Patterson. Google with the Archive Organization has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. The Internet Archive makes available, in its Community Texts Collection (originally known as Open Source Books), books that have been digitised by Google from a number of libraries. These are books on which copyright has expired, and are available free for educational and research use. This rare book was produced from a copy held by the New York Public Library, and is available from the Internet Archive.