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St Andrew

St Andrew

Stokeinteignhead

Devon

Late C14/15, chancel 1867 (Pevsner), major restoration of 1894 by Tait and Harvey.

Architectural Features

Exterior: Most of the windows are untraceried, presumably dating from the C18 or early C19 when the mullions but not the medieval tracery were replaced.

C19 Decorated style chancel with diagonal buttresses, 3-light C19 decorated east window with carved label stops, two 2-light C19 Decorated windows on the south side, one on the north side which also has a C19 lean-to vestry with a moulded doorway in the east end and 3-light window to the north.

The north aisle with a north west diagonal buttress has a 4-light medieval Perpendicular window to the east of the porch with decayed carved label stops, untraceried transomed window to the west of the porch with carved medieval label stops, similar 4-light west window with C19 hoodmould and label stops.

C19 boarded wagon roof with carved bosses.

4-bay north and south arcades with low red sandstone piers with corner shafts and carved capitals with broad foliage capital carving, the 3 westernmost capitals to the north arcade are different in design and possibly re-used with angel carvings divided by niches.

The arrangement here is probably late C19 but may be based on a medieval original.

Notable rood screen "one of the earliest surviving in Devon" (Pevsner) and dated C14 by Bond and Camm.

brass altar rail with ornamental copper spandrels, good choir stalls with carved ends and 2 canopied thrones with reading desks.

The nave has a 1914 timber drum pulpit with traceried panels and co-eval octagonal font with carved traceried panels

timber eagle lectern probably also early C20.

Monuments: Re- set in the sanctuary floor a brass to a priest, died 1375 (Pevsner), the earliest in Devon

Stained Glass: 3 medieval fragments hanging in the south transept

single figures and details from a Beer design in the north transept

east window of north transept with memorial dates of 1871 and 1876 probably by Drake of Exeter

First World War memorial in east window, probably by Blanchford