Dymock
Dymock is a village and also civil church in the Forest of Dean district of Gloucestershire, England, concerning 4 miles southern of Ledbury. The parish had actually a recorded population of 1,214 at the United Kingdom Census 2011. In the village of Dymock there are a number of intriguing buildings that include cruck beam of light cottages; "The White House", which was the native home of John Kyrle - the "Man of Ross" in 1637, Ann Cam School of 1825 and also St Mary's Church, a patchwork history in brick and also rock with Anglo-Norman beginnings. Nearby stands the only remaining village pub, which was acquired by Parish Council to aid maintain a thriving town. The pub is rented out and also run by a proprietor and also sustained by a neighborhood fundraising and also social board "Close friends of the Beauchamp Arms" (FOBA). Dymock offered its name to a college of Romanesque sculpture very first defined in the book The Dymock School of Sculpture by Eric Gethin Jones (1979 ). The college is kept in mind for its use tipped volute capitals as well as its stylised "tree of life" concept on tympana. A lead tablet inscribed with a sophisticated 17th-century curse against a woman called Sarah Ellis was located in a home in Wilton Place. It is preserved in Gloucester's museum collection as "The Dymock Curse". Dymock is the genealogical residence of the Dymoke family who are the Royal Champions of England. It is believed that the Dymokes first lived at Knight's Green, an area simply outside the village of Dymock.
