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Architectural Features

C14 and C15 with chancel rebuilt 1865 by W. Slater

C13 crossing tower with C15 bell-stage and recessed spire

nave with C12 fragments in north wall

C14 south arcade and C15 fenestration

C13 chancel rebuilt 1865 but reusing shafted east window

C13 south transept rebuilt 1492 as part of the exceptionally ornate south east chapel built for Sir R. Tocotes and Sir R. Beauchamp

Exterior: Nave is rubble stone with 5-light Perpendicular west window, north side C15 battlements and 2 large flat-headed C15 three-light windows

Rubble stone tower with north stair tower, ashlar C15 bell-stage with 2-light openings, battlements, corner pinnacles and recessed spire

carved stops to hoodmoulds

carved angels at window heads

cornice with gargoyles

carved shields and bosses

Three-window south side has broader left bay as this is the remodelled C13 south transept

C14 south arcade of 4 bays with octagonal piers and moulded arches

C15 low pitched roof with arched braces from carved head corbels

C13 two hollow-moulded arches under tower

C15 small north side plank door

Exceptional panelled and painted roof with moulded beams, shields in panels and arched braces each side from 6 carved corbels

C15 renewed wooden screens to west and north arches

Furnishings: 1843 stone pulpit by G.P. Manners

octagonal font with pendants

Stone 3-panel carved reredos 1910

Glass: one south east window has c1492 glass in traceried head

Monuments: Exceptional series in south east chapel including tomb-chest of Sir R. Tocotes died 1457 with alabaster effigy, north east tomb chest with fan-vaulted canopy and kneeling brass image to Elizabeth Beauchamp c1492, south east tomb chest with canopy and mixed Renaissance and Gothic detail, to Sir Edward Baynton died 1593

Brass to John Baynton (died 1516). East arcade with plain plaques to various Bayntons and Baynton-Starkys from C17 to C20

Under tower incised C17 plaques to Mary and Ferdinando Hughes, one with skeleton and shroud

Nave north wall has 2 large C19 Gothic memorials to the Gaby family of Westbrook and early C17 plaques to E. Richardes and M. Seagar

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