Abide with me - Brixham Devon
Church of All Saints, Lower Brixham Devon in a busy fishing village, was built by subscription, as a chapel of ease c 1819 - 20 and later constituted a perpetual curacy. 
It was enlarged in 1824 after the arrival of Rev Henry Francis Lyte  +++ later to be the author of the hymn &quot;Abide with me&quot;, who attracted large crowds.  The result described by his grandson was &quot;a hideous barn-like building.&quot; 
(Lyte joined the schools committee, and two months later he became its chairman. Also in 1824, Lyte established the first Sunday school in the Torbay area and created a Sailors' Sunday School. Although religious instruction was given there, the primary object of both was educating children and seamen for whom other schooling was virtually impossible. Each year Lyte organised an Annual Treat for the 800–1000 Sunday school children, which included a short religious service followed by tea and sports in the field.  
He visited the fishermen in their homes and on board their ships in harbour, supplying every vessel with a Bible, and compiling songs and a manual of devotions for use at sea.
He added to his clerical income by taking resident pupils into his home, including the blind brother of Lord Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, later British prime minister.

This original church was later rebuilt between 1884-1906, possibly incorporating parts of the former structure. 

Nave orientated NW-SE with 1885 east and 1892 west aisles by G Somers Clarke.  Chancel with east and west chapels; additional west aisle, probably the former Lady Chapel 1900 - 06 with three stage tower at south end by J T Micklethwaite.
The nave was re-roofed in 1898. 

The small entrance-porch is reached from Church Street by a long flight of stone steps.   The main entrance is by a pointed-arched doorway in the tower, below 3 empty niches ;  

The nave has arcade of 5 pointed arches each side; 4 similar arches opening into Lady Chapel.   Chancel has 3-sided north end; chancel arch with coloured marble shafts.   Cranked arched from east aisle to chancel-chapel and from chancel to both chapels; these are supported by elaborately carved corbels, those to the west chapel (which contains the organ) taking the form of angels with musical instruments. Boarded waggon-roof, with bosses, to nave.   Pitched beamed roofs to aisles, that to the Lady Chapel with bosses. Open roofs with arch-braced trusses to chancel and east chancel chapel.  

There are 2 fonts, one, probably early 19c from the original church,  of black marble in east aisle; &amp; a pink marble font at south end of nave, with inscription recording baptism in 1884. 
The beautiful painted reredos in chancel of 1938 is by Stanley N Babb.  <a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/K3x1z61sh4">www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/K3x1z61sh4</a>


( +++ In 1817 Lyte became a curate in Marazion, Cornwall, and there met and married Anne Maxwell, daughter of a well-known Scottish-Irish family.  She was 31, seven years older than her husband and a &quot;keen Methodist.&quot; Furthermore, she &quot;could not match her husband's good looks and personal charm.&quot; Nevertheless, the marriage was happy and successful. Anne eventually made Lyte's situation more comfortable by contributing her family fortune, and she was an excellent manager of the house and finances. They had two daughters and three sons, one of whom was the chemist and photographer Farnham Maxwell-Lyte.   A grandson was the well known historian Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell-Lyte.
From 1820 to 1822 the Lytes lived in Sway, Hampshire. Itself only five miles (8 km) from the sea, the house in Sway was the only one the couple shared during their marriage that was neither on a river or by the sea. At Sway Lyte lost a month-old daughter and wrote his first book, later published as Tales In Verse Illustrative of the Several Petitions of the Lord's Prayer (1826). In 1822 the Lytes moved to Dittisham, Devon, on the River Dart and then, after Lyte had regained some measure of health, to the small parish of Charleton
In poor health throughout his life, Lyte suffered various respiratory illnesses and often visited continental Europe in attempts to check their progress. In 1835 Lyte sought appointment as the vicar of Crediton but was rejected because of his increasingly debilitating asthma and bronchitis.   In 1839, when only 46, Lyte wrote a poem entitled &quot;Declining Days.&quot;  Lyte also grew discouraged when numbers of his congregation (including in 1846, nearly his entire choir) left him for Dissenter congregations, especially the Plymouth Brethren, after Lyte expressed High Church sympathies and leaned towards the Oxford Movement.
By the 1840s, Lyte was spending much of his time in the warmer climates of France and Italy, making written suggestions about the conduct of his family's financial affairs after his death.   When his daughter was married to his senior curate, Lyte did not perform the ceremony.   Lyte complained of weakness and incessant coughing spasms, and he mentions medical treatments of blistering, bleeding, calomel, tartar emetic, and &quot;large doses&quot; of Prussic acid.[ ! ! )  
Lyte spent the summer of 1847 at Berry Head then, after one final sermon to his congregation on the subject of the Holy Communion, he left again for Italy.   He died on 20 November 1847 at the age of 54, in the city of Nice, at that time in the Kingdom of Sardinia, where he was buried.  <a href="https://flic.kr/p/fgANsG" rel="noreferrer nofollow">flic.kr/p/fgANsG</a>  His last words were &quot;Peace! Joy!  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Francis_Lyte" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Francis_Lyte</a> )


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