In 1931, A R Powys, the brother of the novelist John Cowper Powys began a restoration. The work soon ran into financial problems, but was rescued when some of Thomas Hardy’s letters to the Society of Protection of Ancient Buildings were sold.
St. Andrew’s, Winterborne Tomson
July 28, 2008 by Brian Tompkins
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