St Andrew

chancel early C14, C15 aisles, porch and tower

Continuous 30 year programme of restoration, beginning in 1863, 1860s restoration by Henry Woodyer, restoration of rood screen in the 1880s, executed Hems, architects Fulford and Harvey.

Chancel with set-back buttresses, fine 5-light early C14 east window with intersecting tracery, hoodmould and carved label stops, the south side with a 3-light Perpendicular window and blocked priest's door with a 4-centred arched head in volcanic stone.

Medieval unceiled wagon roof to the chancel, repaired and painted in 1863 (Woodyer) with big painted bosses

nave roof of 1869 by Woodyer, arched brace with a longitudinal rib below collar level, the main timbers moulded with carved bosses at the intersections.

Fine 13-bay rood screen, restored by Harry Hems between 1887 - 1894, the coving C19.

The rood and figures were added in 1889, said to be the first post-reformation replacements in Devon.

Excellent 1860s floor tiling, co-eval cinquefoil-headed piscina on south wall, moulded priest's door into vestry on north wall and internal angel corbels and carving to the south window where the sill is brought down to form a seat.

On either side, 3 tiers of blind stone tracery filled with 1890s mosaics of censing angels, the tracery apparently surviving from the 1860s.

Stone and marble altar with, sorted underneath it, 2 very large freestanding alabaster angels which originally knelt on the reredos flanking the white marble crucifixion, which was carved in Italy by P. Bartolini and has been removed to the altar of the south chancel chapel.

The nave has a C12 Purbeck marble font under the tower with a square bowl with blind arcading on the rounded stem with corner shafts.

1875 stone and marble pulpit designed by Easton and Son with open panels and a carved figure of St Andrew

C19 timber eagle lectern, probably a copy of a C16 lectern

complete set of nave benches of the early C16 with square-headed ends with 2 tiers of tracery, aisle benches copied from the medieval in the C19.

Fixed to the tower is a remarkable section of medieval painted panelling :- the 2 single figures appear to be early C16 portraits.

Memorials Mural tablet on north wall of chancel commmemorating Dr William Huchenson, Chaplain to James I and Charles I, with armorial bearings and a Latin inscription

kneeling figure on the south wall of the nave on a monument to Richard Waltham, died 1637, On the north wall of the nave a good classical white marble monument to William Long, died 1770 and one to John Geere, died 1748.

Glass: Fragments of C14

C15 glass leaded into a window on the vestry, other fragments in the east window at the base, concealed internally by the reredos.

Late C15/early C16 heraldic shields in the south window of the south chancel chapel.

South window in chancel, with a memorial date of 1856 probably by William Wailes : the remainder of the glass is an outstanding and complete scheme by the Hardman Company, the east window of 1868, the aisle windows of the late C19 with white glass canopies, west windows of aisles also by Hardman, designed in the 1880s and 90s, and memorial window in south chancel chapel, incorporating a portrait head, also by the Hardman Company.

As a reflection of High Church design and craftsmanship applied to a fine medieval parish church, and relatively unaltered since, Kenn is of outstanding historical interest.