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Merchants House
Wool Merchant's House around 1600

Before continuing along the Landing the visitor is invited to look into a wool merchant’s house through a fifteenth-century window from Crazelowman, and then enter into the room replicated to look like a wool merchant’s living room.

Plain and austere with a family Bible it depicts their plain living and commitment to a Puritan faith.

Men of immense wealth, who exported cloth from Mid Devon across Europe and to the Near East, they were very generous in the endowment of schools, almshouses and charities to assist the poor.

Adjoining this room is a small display about the role of the Church in Mid Devon. Perhaps its most famous son is St Boniface of Crediton who converted Germany to Christianity in the eighth century. A striking view of Shobrooke Church as part of a large scene leads us on to consider again man’s role in the landscape.