ENABLED IMPORTANT NEW BUILDINGS TO BE BUILT. Te new chapel of Holy Trinity, or St Saviours as it later became known, was dedicated in 1372. Te Mayor and Community agreed with Torre Abbey (the rector of the parish) to pay the full costs of building and repairing the chapel and to respect the rights of the mother church of St Clements.
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HE TOWN’S PROSPERITY
annexed to the town in 1463, and successive kings granted money to keep the port’s defences up to date. Te new Dartmouth Castle, begun about 1481, was a double artillery tower with square and round sections, with two storeys above a basement bedded on rock. Te basement walls were pierced with gunports for breech-loading cannons, very advanced for the time. By 1502, a square artillery tower was completed opposite, at Kingswear; the two castles protected the ends of a new chain. Under Henry VIII, a seaward battery was added next to the Castle in 1545, and Bayards Cove Castle was built as an open riverside battery, within the town.
T 1408 ➜ S
OON AFTER, JOHN HAWLEY PAID FOR
THE ENLARGEMENT OF ST SAVIOURS. When he died in 1408, he was buried in the chancel he had founded, under a handsome brass memorial. Te commercial centre of the town grew around the new church whilst to the north at Hardness were the shipbuilding yards. Across the creek was a dam called La Fosse, with two tidal mills, marked by Foss Street. Te medieval heart of Dartmouth can still be seen clearly today.
W 1586 ➜
HEN JOHN LELAND VISITED DARTMOUTH IN 1542, he found
“good marchaunt men in the towne; and to this haven long good shippes”. Many Exeter and Totnes merchants used Dartmouth’s ships and port facilities, for both coastal and overseas trade. Te town secured rights over the harbour (known as the “waterbaileywick”) from Henry VIII, providing significant revenue. Te town’s leaders successfully negotiated the religious upheavals of the 16th
century,
acquiring much of the property that had been bequeathed to St Saviours, and continuing to look aſter the church their predecessors had built. From 1586 they appointed and paid the Vicar of Townstal and chaplain of St Saviours and looked aſter St Clements too.
HE SUBURB OF SOUTH TOWN, first recorded in 1328, was
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