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The ancient Church of St
Saviour, the parish church of Tor Mohun, is on Tor Church Road, today serving as the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Andrew. It contains several monuments, most notably to Thomas Ridgeway (1543–1598) of Torwood House, lord of the manor of Tor Mohun, and of the Cary families of
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Swete painted three watercolours of the house and its setting in 1792/3, which survive in the Devon Record Office. The only element he found which reminded him of the "savour of antient workmanship" was the staircase, the steps of which were made not of planks but of solid blocks of oak. Eventually
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in particular possesses from this circumstance no small degree of consequence and the chamber above, now converted into a general dormitory for the servants of the farmer who rents the estate, seems to be of equal dimensions. There are however no other remains of the magnificence of the family that
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with a "princely fortune" at his disposal and was "in quest of a seat in his native county where he might enjoy the fruits of his toil in elegant leisure and courteous hospitality". He was not however happy with the layout of the estate as fields next to
Torwood House had been sold off by the
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Palk, together with his neighbour Cary of Torre Abbey, devised a plan to develop the two adjoining estates of Tor Mohun and Torre Abbey into a seaside resort town for visitors, now
Torquay. On a previous visit in 1792 to the then small village of "Torquay", Swete remarked in his
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in the 16th century and were once again parted in the 17th century (see below). Since Brewer's only surviving son died childless, his eventual heirs became his daughters, the fourth of whom, Alice married (as her first husband) Reginald de Mohun (1185–1213)
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as his new seat, one of the grandest houses in Devon. He let
Torwood House and the Tor Mohun estate to a farmer ("converted it into a farm house" (Swete)). Torwood House was described by Rev.
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309:, Devon (whose mural monument survives in Bovey Tracey Church), a counsellor-at-law. In 1662 Stawell sold it to Sir George Cary, (d.1678) whose first cousin Sir Henry Cary,
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60:, an area within that town. In 1876 the Local Board of Health obtained the sanction of Government to alter the name of the district from
235:. She gave the manor to her younger son, who died childless, when it reverted to the Mohun family of Dunster. (For future descent see:
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The Manor itself and manorial title are now separated. The current manorial lord is
American Philanthropist Terry A. Perkins.
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Torwood House, Tor Mohun, residence of the
Ridgeway family. Demolished 1840s. Painted by John Wallace Tucker (1808–1869)
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of that king. He also held from the king in Devon the manors of Taw Green, Raddon, Bolham, Ilsham and
Mariansleigh.
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321:(died 1714), who died without male progeny and was buried at Tor Mohun. His two daughters and co-heiresses were:
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inhabited it, no fretwork, no sculpture but the arms I have before noticed, no painted glass in the windows..."
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Reginald de Mohun (1185–1213) acquired Tor on his marriage to Alice Brewer, and thenceforth it was known as
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Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620
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on the south coast of Devon, now superseded by the
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in 1637, had sold nearby Cockington (the ancient Cary family seat) during the
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In 1653 Torre Abbey was sold to Sir John Stawell (1625-1669) of
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St Saviour's Church, the mediaeval parish church of Tor Mohun
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Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon
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Devon's Torre Abbey: Faith, Politics and Grand Designs
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