Description

TQ 0126 KIRDFORD KIRDFORD VILLAGE

Tablet in the Wall of
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the Vicarage Garden

GV II


Memorial tablet. This tablet was erected in the south-west angle of the wall of the
Vicarage Garden at the nearest point to the former Black Bear Inn in 1850 by the then
Vicar of Kirdford, the Rev J F Cole, who found a slip of paper in the Vicarage Garden
with these words on it:-
"Degradation of drunkenness. There is no sin which doth more deface God's image
than drunkenness. It disguiseth a person and doth even unman Him. Drunkenness
makes him have the throat of a fish, the belly of a swine and the head of an
ass. Drunkenness is the shame of nature, the extinguisher of reason, the
shipwreck of charity and the murder of conscience. Drunkenness is hurtful to
the body. The cup kills more than the cannon. It causes dropsies, cartarrhs,
apoplexies. It fills the eye with fire, and the legs with water, and turns the
body into a hospital."

Listing NGR: TQ0183026632

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26532230

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey