St Mary

Tower has C13/14 west doorway.

C15 two-storeyed south porch with embattled parapet diagonal buttresses, moulded round-arch doorway with heavy label and two-light window above.

Sundial on porch dated 1687.

Circa C13/14 moulded west doorway.

Interior: wide nave with five-bay C15 north and south arcades with moulded two-centred arches on piers with four shafts with wavy moulding between and leaf frieze capitals, some bearing benefactors' names.

Very fine C15 rood screen across nave and aisles and parclose screen with original colour including defaced painted figures on wainscot panels, traceried above and vaulted coving with finely carved pulvina- ted frieze with vine and grapes and cresting above.

The large carving on the left is part of a restoration, and the carving is cruder than the original. Near the centre of the picture, a bird has been carved in the screen

© David Smith

C15 octagonal font with quatrefoil panels.

SX8261 : St Mary, Berry Pomeroy, Devon - Font

© John Salmon

Remainder of furnishings Victorian except for reused altar rail of circa early C18 now in north aisle and a C17 carved chest in south aisle.

Monuments: on north side of chancel Sir Richard Pomeroy 1496 and his wife, a tomb chest with quatrefoil panels in niche with carved Tudor arch, the brasses of kneelers and shields are missing.

At east end of north aisle Seymour monument 1613 with reclining effigies of two knights (Edward son of the Protector and his son Lord Edward Seymour) and another reclining effigy of the latter's wife with child in cradle and another child at her feet.

Kneeling figures below of five sons and four daughters.

Wall monument to Revd John Prince 1681-1723 Vicar of St Mary's and author of "The worthies of Devon", first published in 1701.

Other C18 and C19 wall monuments.

Floor slab in chancel to Robert Lyde 1615 and family.

Painted Royal Arms of William III and inscription below:- "Fear God Honour Ye King".