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St Clement

Kingswear

Devon

Norman font, basically early C14 with C15 or early C16 tower, restored 1881-5 by Ashford.

Architectural Features

slate roof with pierced crested ridge tiles.

windows with Perpendicular tracery and central doorway, a late C15 or C16 granite Tudor arch with carved spandrels.

INTERIOR: The nave, aisle and transepts have C19 open wagon roofs with carved bosses.

Ceiled wagon roof in the chancel with smaller carved bosses is probably earlier.

Early C14 three-bay arcade (including north transept) has octagonal piers with concave sides, shafts in the diagonals, and moulded capitals, shallow chamfers to the arches

FITTINGS: Unusual restored C17 oak altar table, top supported on carved heraldic beasts.

Oak Gothic pulpit dated 1874 and lectern in same style.

Most of stalls and benches are plain C19 deal, but chancel includes two C19 good oak prayer desks carved with blind Perpendicular tracery.

Norman font on new circular stem, octagonal bowl with shallow blind arcade.

Large timber boards in the chancel recording charitable bequests from 1548-1885.

MEMORIALS: Several good monuments.

Oldest is medieval under a low arch in south transept - very worn Purbeck marble recumbent figure in long robes.

In chancel, good large marble monument in memory of Thomas Boone and his wife Dorothy - plaque with frame carved with buds and flowers rising to an heraldic cartouche in front of a double pediment (segmental in front of swans neck) on Corinthian columns, whole surmounted by urns and bottom shelf on fluted consoles with festoons and another cartouche between.

Nearby a couple of smaller C19 marble monuments with urns, in memory of William Barber who died at sea in 1817, and members of the Banfill family who died between 1790-1825

Other good monuments in the south transept.

Good marble monument in memory of 12-year old Miss Mary Roope "a young lady of promising expectations" surmounted by a portrait medallion with putti holding open drapery to reveal it - an excellent unsigned work.

Others in memory of Charles Hayne with mourning mother and child by Denman of London, Jane Jodrell with sunburst, and Allin (sic.) Gibbs Good brass with figure in civilian dress and rhyming epitaph in memory of Robert Holland GLASS: C19 glass in east window and the rest is C20. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: P.322).