St Mary The Virgin

Slated roof with C19 crested ridge-tiles.

beneath the N aisle battlements is a string course with 4 large gargoyles, that on the E possibly medieval.

West doorway of medieval Beer stone, heavily moulded and with pointed arch.

centre boss carved with Virgin Mary flanked by angels

2 carved with animals, the rest with flowers.

Ogee-headed Beer stone piscinas in chancel and N transept, both with carved basins and stone shelves

that in chancel has cusped arch carved with arms of Bishop Courtenay of Exeter N transept (later converted to Churston family pew) has screen of fluted wooden columns removed from former south gallery of 1792

Fittings: early C14 Beer stone font with octagonal base buttressed by 3 grotesque animals

bowl carved with trefoiled ogee crocketed arches

wooden Gothic font cover dated 1908.

Also framed embroidered altar frontel made from early C15 vestments.

Monuments: stone coffin lid carved with cross.

At either side of chancel, piercing wall with chancel chapel, a late-medieval stone tomb.

That to N has quatrefoil-panelled base and carved ogee canopy with traces of old paint

inscribed top of grey stone, said to be for William Hille, vicar 1464-87.

no inscription, but in place of effigy an early-medieval stone coffin lid.

North chancel chapel has 3 ornate C17 monuments to the Upton family of Lupton.

In south chancel chapel a white marble monument of c1720 to Anne Stucley, in the form of a cartouche with a pair of skulls at the base

Glass: all but the north window of the N transept contain Victorian or early C20 stained glass. (The Buildings of England: Cherry B: Devon (2nd edition): London: 1989-: 829).