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St Peter

Knowstone

Devon

The south doorway is said to be Norman, but the surviving fabric appears principally C15, the north aisle possibly early C16.

Architectural Features

C19 3-light window to right of south porch with gabled slate roof with crested ridge tiles and shaped bargeboards.

C15 unceiled wagon-roof with moulded longitudinal members.

Plastered barrel roof to nave and chancel, ceiled wagon-roof to south aisle with decorative carved bosses at the intersections.

C19 pulpit incorporates one open traceried panel of former screen.

2 windows, to south side of nave and to north aisle with stained glass by Drake.

C19 tiled floors, raised and fielded panelled benches, and font.

Painted Royal Arms dated 1724, P. Hynam, Warden, in north aisle.

Several reset tone slabs, late C16 to early C18 at east end of north aisle.

Wall monument, chancel south side, to John Culme with figures resting on broken pediment, central achievement, Ionic colonettes and skull to base.

Small wall tablet to Philip Shapcote , on north side, wall monument to Froude family, including Revd.