History
St Dilpe and the Celtic Foundation of Landulph Church
Tracing the origins of our church and parish takes us on a journey through fifteen centuries of history.
Landulph Church is dedicated to two saints: St Leonard and St Dilpe. St Dilpe is of Celtic origin and gives his or her name to our parish: Lan–Dulph, meaning the sacred enclosure of Dilpe. But who was St Dilpe?
History of 1914/18 War Memorial Clock
The School clock is elderly and in need of restoration.
At the end of the First World War, a parish memorial committee discussed a suitable Memorial to those who had served. A granite stone was suggested, but at the time plans were in hand to build a new school. Mrs. Olive Prideaux (Pauline Rutherford’s grandmother), a teacher at the old school, suggested a clock at the new school would be a fitting Memorial.
The general consensus was this was a good idea, and the building plans were altered to incorporate a clock tower and a chamber for the weights between the two classrooms. The school was opened on 19th November 1923; this can be seen on the inscription below the clock today.
Recollections
MR. TONY CHANNINGS died recently at the age of 90. He left us some of his ‘memories of bygone days’. He wrote the notes, a fascinating window into earlier times here, during Covid and gave them to Jo and Andrew Butcher. They are reproduced verbatim.
