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St. Ida

St. Ida

Ide

Devon

C15 tower, the rest of the church 1833 by Hooper and Cornish.

Architectural Features

Perpendicular C15 tower

Of the 1833 fittings modestly - panelled box pews survive against the north and south walls, some Gothick panelling in the chancel and a small font with an octagonal bowl.

Otherwise the fittings are early C20 by Herbert Read: 13-bay chancel screen with square-headed openings, similar parcloses, reredos, choir furnishings, very large timber drum pulpit on wineglass stem with carved figures under traceried niches, nave benches.

Pretty early C20 stained glass with an Art Nouveau influence.

1721 wall monument to Joseph Tothill with a broken pediment and an achievement.

Although St. Ida's is not a very distinguished building architecturally it is historically interesting as an example of a local architect/builder's treatment of a medieval church in the decade before the Gothic Revival in the Diocese of Exeter.