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St Peter and St James

St Peter And St James

Halwill

Devon

C14 or earlier west tower and north nave wall, the rest entirely rebuilt 1870-9, Samuel Hooper of Hatherleigh being the architect in 1878.

Architectural Features

North wall of the nave stone rubble, tower stone rubble brought to course, the rest squared on stone rubble, freestone dressings, slate roofs with crested ridge tiles.

A chamfered string rises under the sill of the 3- light Geometric east window with hoodmould and carved foliage label stops.

The north and south transepts have 3-light windows with intersecting tracery with hoodmoulds and carved foliage label stops, the south transept has a 1-light east window similar to those in the chancel.

The north side of the nave has a central 3- light intersecting traceried window with a hoodmould with reused medieval carved head label stops flanked by two 2-light C19 Decorated uncusped windows with Y tracery.

The south porch has a steeply-pitched gabled roof and a chamfered stopped doorway below a shield carved with "1870".

The porch is flanked by 2-light Geometric Decorated windows with hoodmoulds and carved foliage label stops.

Interior The porch has a narrow chamfered 2-centred doorway, slate-topped benches and the remains of a reused medieval carved wallplate.

The 2-bay chancel roof has a brattished vine-carved wallplate.

Timber crested reredos of 5 blind arches with paintings of Christ flanked by saints and angels.

Trefoil-headed piscina on south wall with a hoodmould, carved foliage corbels and diaper tiling.

Choir stalls in the south transept have fleur de lis poppyheads, others are rectangular with blind traceried carving.

5-sided 1910 Jacobean style drum pulpit on a stem with a moulded base decorated with lively grotesques.

The drum consists of standards decorated with strapwork between panels of symbolic carving and foliage under round-headed arches.

Plain octagonal granite font, possibly C14 (Creswell) with a late C19 domed font cover with crocketted brackets pierced with trefoils and a pinnacle.

Late C19 timber lectern.