Pentecost Dodderidge
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Pentecost Dodderidge of Barnstaple in North Devon, was three times Member of Parliament for Barnstaple in 1621, 1624 and 1625.
1617 carved oak chimneypiece formerly in the Dodderidge House, Cross Street, Barnstaple, decorated with two strapwork panels inhabited by putti and showing at middle top the date 1617 with to the left the initials "PD" (for Pentecost Dodderidge (d.circa 1650)) and to right "ED" (for Elizabeth Wescombe his wife). Now in the "Dodderidge Room", in the Barnstaple Guildhall with other oak panelling from Dodderidge House.
Image: Dodderidge House Barnstaple
Image: Cross Street Barnstaple Devon
Barnstaple
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Barnstaple is a river-port town and civil parish in the North Devon district of Devon, England. The town lies at the River Taw's lowest crossing point before the Bristol Channel. From the 14th century, it was licensed to export wool from which it earned great wealth. Later it imported Irish wool, but its harbour silted up and other trades developed such as shipbuilding, foundries and sawmills. A Victorian market building survives, with a high glass and timber roof on iron columns.
Barnstaple Clock Tower
The exterior of the Pannier Market, built in the mid-19th century
Barnstaple Clock Tower, erected in 1862 as a memorial to Prince Albert
Barum House, The Square: Town Council's offices