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Saint James the Apostle

Saint James The Apostle

Christow

Devon

C12 font, Medieval fabric C15, restoration of 1862 by Edward Ashworth included rebuilding the chancel, the porch, adding the vestry, reseating and repairing and repainting the screen.

Architectural Features

C19 chancel with granite ashlar quoins set back buttresses, 3-light C19 Perpendicular east window with carved label stops, 1 buttress on the south side which has a C19 moulded priest's door and a 1-light cusped window with carved label stops

North aisle with set back buttresses and buttresses with set-offs between the 4 C19 Perpendicular 3-light windows retaining medieval mullions and jambs

Shallow-moulded granite west doorway dated 1680 (presumably a restoration date) on the arch

Porch with set back buttresses and a shallow moulded granite outer doorway with NB carved on one jamb, C19 hoodmould and carved label stops, good ledger stone used as paving slab outside porch, commemorating Nicholas and Walter Busell, died 1631 and 1632

C19 arched brace roof to porch with crude chamfered rounded inner doorway and probably C17 door.

Ceiled wagon roofs with carved bosses to nave, similar C19 roof to chancel, ceiled wagons without bosses to north and south aisles.

5-bay rood screen, (Pevsner 'A'type), the coving missing, re-painted in the C19.

The nave has a late C19 timber drum pulpit with carved panels incorporating C16 blind tracery

C12 font with a square scalloped bowl on a replaced cylindrical stem and plinth.

C16 square-headed bench ends with 2 tiers of blank tracery, one carved with a pomegranate, fixed to later seating in the aisles with low door added in the C19.

Plain C19 benches in the nave except for 2 rows facing north and south with carved frontals.

1682 Royal Arms in plaster in high relief with the names of Tho Moore and Chr Moore, churchwardens, below.

Memorials: Numerous C19 wall white marble wall monuments to the Exmouth family in the chancel, 2 of 1833 signed E. Gaffin, Regent Street, London : one to the Right Honourable Pownoll Bastard Pellew with a mourning woman

The nave has a number of C19 wall monuments and 2 fine slate-cut ledger stones fixed to the west and north walls commemorating Edmund Davis, died 1652 and John Davys died 1682.

Stained Glass: Fragments of C15 canopy work and a figure in the easternmost window of the south aisle

some C18 bottle glass in the head tracery of the north aisle

Outstanding Clayton and Bell glass, memorial date 1862, in the east. window of the south aisle

chancel east window probably by Drake of Exeter, memorial date of 1899 glass by Ward and Hughes in the window in the south aisle, first bay from the east, memorial date of 1913.

Window in north aisle, opposite the door, with memorial date of 1867, probably by William Wailes.