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All Saints

Huntsham

Devon

Tower probably C14, upper stage rebuilt 1854-6, the rest of the church completely rebuilt 1854-6 by Benjamin Ferrey for A.H.D. Troyte who designed some of the details himself

Architectural Features

Stone rubble with Ham Hill dressings, Sussex tiled roof with crested ridge tiles.

Exterior: Decorated windows to the chancel, the east window designed by Troyte, the north window a re-used Decorated medieval window with volcanic tracery

good carved label stops to the 1850s windows and a stone wall-plate carved with ballflowers.

Slim battlemented west tower without pinnacles, partly medieval, partly rebuilt in the 1850s when it was "taken down to the upper string, and a turret was raised at the north-east angle".

3-bay north arcade (1 bay to the transept) with double-chamfered cranked arches on octagonal piers with moulded capitals and carved corbels to the responds

Unceiled wagon roofs to nave and chancel, the chancel roof boarded above the sanctuary and with carved timber corbels below the wall-plate.

Good tiled floors throughout, more richly decorated in the sanctuary and chancel which has an inlaid brass commemorating Dr Troyte, died 1852.

1850s timber altar rail and choir stalls with carved ends

low timber chancel screen incorporating fragments of medieval tracery

eagle lectern fixed to screen.

The nave has an 1850s timber pulpit incorporating circa early C16 bench ends

octagonal stone font commemorating Fanny Troyte, died 1856

set of C19 bench ends with foliage carving.

fine brass and inlay nave corona.

Carefully-designed C19 stained glass by Wailes: grisaille designs to the chancel, quarries with texts to the nave and aisles, the texts in the south aisle indicating its function as a children's aisle.

West window of north aisle pictorial, incorporating late C15 fragments.

Commemorative brass to Troyte and his wife in north aisle erected by his children.