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St Thomas

Kentisbury

Devon

C15 or early C16 west tower, and fabric of nave walls and south porch.

Architectural Features

Set back buttresses with tablets decorated with two Tudor roses built into first stage of each buttress.

C15 porch with depressed pointed arched doorway with Pevsner 'B' type moulded surround and replaced stiff leaf capitals slate sundial above by John Berry dated 1762 and now niche over.

C15 waggon roof with moulded ribs and purlins with carved bosses and end demi-bosses at the intersections.

C19 choir stalls, carved with running foliage.

Semi-circular timber drum to pulpit on stone base, the drum pierced with seven quatrefoils above trefoil headed lights, with original paintwork intact.

C19 font on stem of a half-shaft.

Wall monuments: Nave, south side C17 slate tablet to Elizabeth Randal.

C18 slate tablet to right with winged angels bust to head, skull, shield and hour glass to base with inscription to members of Richards family, and C17 slate tablet with inscription to Richard and Elizabeth Richards.

Large stone slab below inscribed John Knight Stained Glass: C19 glazing complete of square-leaded panes with coloured margin panes.