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Architectural Features

C13 chancel.

C15 nave, north aisle and tower

slate roofs and red tiles to porch.

restored C15 volcanic 2-light window with round heads to left of porch, C19 volcanic Decorated-style to right, and, to right end, beyond a buttress, a 3-light Perpendicular window apparently in situ (original granite sides and hood mould but restored Beerstone tracery).

original in chancel with carved oak bosses and moulded wall plate with 4-leaf motifs at intervals: aisle retains some original carpentry but nave appears mostly C19 renovation-work.

C15 south door of studded oak plank construction with applied tracery defining 4 trefoil-headed panels in C19 stone arch.

Flagged floor includes several inscribed C17 gravestones.

Hollow-chamfered rear arches to north aisle windows which include fragments of C15 stained glass.

3-bays of late C15 8-bay oak rood screen reset as parclose with central door across north aisle.

Although partly restored it is of very high quality with delicate carving and includes 12 original painted figure panels in blind tracery.

Late C11 Beerstone font is a profusely decorated girdled tub on a circular base on C20 granite plinth.

Partly restored C16 oak pulpit with octagonal drum on stem

the 5 panelled sides have elaborate carvings including birds, grotesque heads, a mermaid and harpy.

8 C15 oak benches in south aisle with carved ends showing 2 tiers of recessed trefoil-headed panels with crenellated rail between.

Other furnishings are late C19 featuring oak choirstalls with carved ends and wrought ironwork, both by local craftsmen.

At east end of south wall good late C17 marble monument to the Daveys of Medland Manor, the inscription of an oval medallion flanked by Corinthian columns with moulded cornice under arms and flanking cartouches and sill on consoles.

On north wall of chancel a brass to R.L. Pennell who died in Zanzibar in 1872 and depicts a missionary ship and African isle.

2 painted achievements of the Royal Arms, rare arms of Elizabeth I over south door and arms of George II dated 1735 in north aisle.

Sources K.M.Clarke, The Baptismal Fonts of Devon:Part II Trans.