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St Mary And St David

St Devereux

Herefordshire

Nave: raised verges, pilaster buttresses and continuous corbel table decorated with flat rope ornament and carved grotesque human and animal heads to corbels, with "lamb of God" motif to corbel above doorway

Architectural Features

Jambs of two orders with outer attached shafts decorated with twisting serpents and inner shaft to left with two warrior-type figures entwined in vine, the shaft to the right has twisting vine and palmette motifs.

pilaster buttresses, partly defaced corbels to corbel label which continues around chancel and apse with zig-zag and rope ornmanet, primitive heads and animals and one corbel with curious fertility symbol (sheila-na-gig)

The label also has chevron ornmanet, two orders to the responds with inner plain and outer carved with male figures representing the fathers of the church

carved and draped figures, three to each side and each standing above the other, holding attributes.

Fittings: Font: late C12 or early C13.

Late C12 stoup in chancel with curious round bowl encircled by human arms and hands, with hemi-spherical base encircled by serpents extending downwards.

Mid-C17 gallery at west end of nave with moulded cross-beam supported on four columns with simple moulded capitals and bases and surmounted by balustrade with turned balusters and moulded rail.