A TALK on the rich legacy of medieval carvings in many of the UK's churches will take place in Throwleigh this weekend.

Sue Baxter has been invited to the village by the Friends of St Mary's Church, and her talk will cover the rich legacy of medieval carving which survives in the roofs of parish churches.

Sue will place these carvings in their medieval decorative, social and religious context, showing images both familiar and unfamiliar, including the three hares and the Green Man.

In 1920, Beatrix Cresswell, an authority on the subject, said in her introduction to her typescript 'Notes on Devon Churches', that: 'The History of England is written in her parish churches. For more than a thousand years they have garnered up the life of the past, which is engraved on their stones, for those to read who can interpret their mysteries.

'Human nature is inclined to prize what is remote and rare, rather than what lies near at hand. Enshrined in the rustic villages of Devon are these treasures of past days.

'There is no need to visit the noble buildings of great cities; the past has left its treasures at your door'.

Residents interested in discovering these treasures are welcome to the talk by Sue Baxter at St Mary's Church on Saturday October 16 at 7.30pm.