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St Mary The Virgin

Upottery

Devon

Late C12 origins, largely rebuilt in more than one phase in the C15, various C19 alterations including a major renovation of 1875 - 76.

Architectural Features

The chancel has evidence of late C12 work.

The tower is early C15, and the north aisle is probably mid -late C15.

It has an embattled parapet and carved animal and gargoyle waterspouts.

The west doorway is C15

a Beerstone 2-centred arch with moulded surround including a band of very weathered 4-leaf motifs and a hoodmould with worn carved label stops.

The 1858 vestry is Tudor Gothic in style.

Interior: the nave and aisle have C19 boarded wagon roofs, with moulded ribs and purlins and carved bosses.

The tall C15 tower arch has a moulded surround although most is hidden by the organ loft.

it has a moulded surround and the inner ring springs from corbels carved as a foliage.

C15 3-bay Beerstone arcade with moulded piers (Pevsner's type 3) and capitals carved as foliage with shields.

Most of the floor is flagged and includes some C17 and C18 graveslabs, particularly in the aisle.

The sanctuary floor is a pattern of coloured tiles.

The stalls, lectern, reading desk and pulpit are all oak, the benches are pine and are simple with a minimum of Gothic enrichment.

C15 Beerstone font with octagonal bowl carved with quatrefoil panels containing 4- leaf motifs, plain coved based and panelled stem.

The only notable memorial is in the north aisle.

It is a marble mural monument in memory of John Hutchins and his wife Katherine and comprises a rectangular plaque flanked by Corintnian pilasters with an entablature above surmounted by an open pediment and heraldic cartouche and below the apron is a cartouche with a carved skull.

In the nave there are 2 lozenge-shaped hatchment boards painted with the Sidmouth arms.

C19 stained glass in the chancel windows and eastern windows of the nave and aisle.

The west window of the nave contains medallions made up of fragments of ancient stained glass.