Widecombe Church Medieval Documents
This page provides additional details for the paper published in the 2023 Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association.
This paper, entitled 'Revisiting Some Medieval Documents of Widecombe Church'. analyses the earliest known documents relating to Widecombe Church that are held in the Exeter Cathedral Archive and also Bishop Bronescombe's Register which is held at the South West Heritage Trust. These documents relate to the period 1250-1300. Some new information has been unearthed that revises current views of this early period in Widecombe Church's history.
A full transcription (the originals are in Latin) and translation of the Exeter Cathedral documents can be found in the PDF document below.
Transcriptions_and_Translations_D&C_1934_1935_1936_1937_2112_V1.1.pdfFurther Information and Access to Website Sources
The Exeter Cathedral Archive Catalogue can be accessed via
https://www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/history-heritage/library-archives/
A number of the nineteenth-century volumes mentioned in the paper (such as Hingeston-Randolph, 1889 and Worthy, 1875) are accessible via my favourites list on the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/fav-torwalker
Oliver’s Monasticon Dioecesis Exoniensis is accessible for free viewing through Google Classic Books:
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Monasticon_Dioecesis_Exoniensis_Being_a/m8pMAAAAcAAJ?hl=en