St Thomas A Becket

The south side has a buttress with set-offs, a chamfered rounded priest's doorway, a 1-light cusped C19 Ham Hill window to the left and a medieval Decorated volcanic 2-light window to the right with a C19 hood mould and a rectangular ashlar granite rood stair turret.

rounded, moulded granite outer doorway with C19 timber gates and a moulded inner doorway with a C17 plank and coverstrip door.

Unusually refined Perpendicular boarded wagon roof, boarded behind the ribs to porch: the ribs carved with beaded ribbons with delicately-carved bosses at the intersections.

Interior: Remarkable early C16 screen and other good fittings.

conventional late C15/early C16 Perpendicular granite north arcade.

Probably Perpendicular ceiled wagon roof to nave and aisle, carved bosses to the nave

Notable 8-bay rood screen, said to have once had a 1508 date: the rood loft and coving are missing

SX8186 : Rood Screen, St. Thomas a Becket, Bridford, Devon

© nick macneill

what survives is richly carved and coloured with unusual lively carved, (rather than painted) wainscot figures, probably the model for the C17 figures on the Lustleigh screen.

The pulpit is formed of similar panels.

4-bay Perpendicular traceried parclose: the parclose and rear of the rood screen have large demi-figures of a probably C17 date painted on the wainscot.

The chancel has piscina with an ogival chamfered arch, C19 timber altar rail and an east window, probably by Drake of Exeter with a memorial date of 1872.

Fragments of C15 stained glass in the south windows

chair made up of pieces of medieval carving in the early C19.

1661 Royal Arms painted on a board above the south door

early C18 wall monument to Emanuel Hall, died 1703, with an inscription recording a charity, in a moulded frame on the south wall.

C15 glass

the remains of a scheme by the Doddiscombsleigh atelier in the east window of the Lady chapel, includes figures and armorial bearings.

Devon Nineteenth Century Churches Project Brooks, C and Evans, D, unpublished notes on the stained glass of Bridford Church.