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Island Life - June/July 2010
Photo: Left - The Buddle
Inn, Niton. Below: The old
telephone exchange.
pretty edifice, adorned with a neat
spire.”
I go through the striking lych-gate
The church is one of the churches
Godman Kirkpatrick, a retired diplomat
given to the Norman Abbey of Lyre by
who lived at Westcliffe, are buried in
William FitzOsbern and it’s recorded
the family vault.
given by John Bevoir of Lymington in
in the Domesday Book as being in
1920 and up a path into the beautifully
the King’s hands. Buller called it “a
and Company was declared bankrupt
kept graveyard and find a south-facing
church of great antiquity” and believes
in 1842 though at one time the family
Celtic cross dated 1874 standing on
the oldest part, the nave, may have
owned estates all over the Island and
a medieval base of large hewn stones
been part of the original 11th century
General James Wolfe who commanded
placed in the form of four steps. At
structure. The 15th-16th century
the attack on Quebec in 1759 spent
one time the cross would have stood on
gun-house was removed in 1864 (each
his last night in E