St Winifred

The west end window has carved headstops to the hoodmould one of which has been mutilated.

The north aisle windows have probably C20 replacement mullions and transoms late C19 hoodmould with carved headstops on north aisle window.

ceiled wagon roof with moulded ribs and wall-plates, carved bosses at intersections and fleurons set at intervals into wall-plates on either side of nave.

Last 2 bays of chancel roof rebuilt in C19 to form ceilure over sanctuary, painted , with carved bosses.

Very fine late C15 richly carved timber screen extending across nave and both aisles.

The panels have painted figures and in the jambs and arch of the central doorway are carved figures underneath crocketed canopies.

Parclose screens to either chapel with square headed tracery and Tudor arches to doorways, also with traces of ancient colouring, possibly early C16.

Reredos presented in 1897 by Mrs. Ffrench in memory of the Ffrench family, designed by Mr. G. Prynne and panels painted by E. Prynne: richly carved and gilded wooden panels in high Italian manner and painted with scenes of the nativity and crucifixion with crocketed canopies over the central panels.

Late C19 pulpit and carved lecturn.

Re-used linenfold panelling at west end of south aisle, probably late Clslearly C16.

4 C15 stained glass figures in top of north aisle window, second from the left, glass below dated 1883.

Western window of south aisle has robust design in stained glass dated 1927.

In the south aisle they are dated 1620, 1633, and 1672, one dated 1698 in the nave and 2 in the north aisle dated 1658 and 1676 where there is a third one with an illegible inscription but a carved heart in the centre.

In the chancel is a marble slab in memory of Richard Eastchurch, rector, 1698 with a carved coat of arms.

Simple C19 octagonal granite font.

SX7481 : Manaton, St. Winifred's Church: The font

© Michael Garlick

3 medieval bells survive, one being cast at the Exeter foundry of Robert Norton about the the end of the C15.

2 others, dedicated to St. Catherine and to St. George, were probably cast locally by Johanna Hill, widow of a London bell-founder, and their marks indicate a date between 1440-43.