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St George

St George

Shillingford St George

Devon

C15, thoroughly restored and possibly partly rebuilt in 1856.

Architectural Features

Dr. Oliver considered that the church was originally a domestic chapel, enlarged in the late C15.

The north transept has no plinth and a stone rubble base and is probably medieval in origin.

The north transept has a 2-light probably medieval Decorated window and a picturesque C19 chimney stack with asymmetrical set-offs, an octagonal shaft and coped cap.

the arms of Courtenay and Huddesfield on carved shields below hoodmoulds.

The fragments of inscribed carved scrolls survive above the coats of arms.

The interior has a C19 roof, stone benches with wooden seats and a medieval volcanic trap inner doorway with shallow moulding.

A fine C15 or C16 plank and stud door retains an iron ring with a back plate.

The nave has some C16 bench ends carved with foliage and tracery.

The font has an octagonal bowl on a stem, the bowl, decorated with heraldry, may have been recut in the C19, the date of the tall pyramidal crocketted font cover.

The C19 lectern re- uses some C17 woodwork.

The door into the tower turret is probably C15: a 2 plank studded door in a chamfered, stopped doorway.

The chancel has a particularly interesting monument to Sir William Huddesfield : a purbeck marble tomb chest in a chamfered arched recess has a brass shield with the bearings of Huddesfield and Courtenay.

Above the chest a small square brass shows Sir William with his wife and children kneeling beneath depressed ogee arches.

Other memorials of interest include a brass wall plaque with a rustic inscription commemorating John Seaman, died 1664.

C15 armorial stained glass in the chancel has been carefully restored probably by Drake of Exeter, other stained glass is by Beer of Exeter.