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The Holy Trinity

Torbryan

Devon

Early C15, with C19 vestry.

Architectural Features

Above it is a straight-headed early C16 window of two segmental- headed lights, the hood-mould with square carved terminals.

Interior has stone seats at either side and a white-limestone fan-vault with trefoil-headed and quatrefoil panels, the ribs carved with four angels.

Upper storey has straight-headed two-light window with hood-mould, the lights with ogee cinquefoiled heads and carved spandrels.

Interior: nave has five two-centred arches on each side, the piers of diamond section with an attached column a each angle and wave-mouldings in between, the capitals carved with foliage.

Wagon-roof to nave and chancel, possibly restored Fittings: coloured medieval glass in heads of most of the windows.

Medieval wood rood screen across nave and aisles with parclose screens of slightly different design across the eastern arch of each aisle.

Rood screen has give 2-centred arches across have and three across each aisle.

Arches are of four ogee-headed cinquefoiled lights with corresponding panels beneath carrying an almost complete set of Pre-Reformation painted figures.

Head-beams carved with fruit and foliage.

Octagonal font with plain bowl, each face of shaft with a cinquefoil-headed panel

early C17, ogee-shaped wooden cover.

Seven-sided elaborately carved wood pulpit on imitation medieval base (the pulpit itself said to be made up of pier casings from the rood screen)

it has a shaft carved with foliage in the centre of each of five faces, this being flanked by trefoil-headed panels.

Complete set of medieval pews in nave, eight each side of centre gangway

bench-ends as far as can be ascertained carved with trefoil-headed panels.

Monument: on north wall of chancel, slate plaque in a limestone frame, to William Peter of Tornewton and wife nicely Flanking piles are decorated with pendants of ribbons and a skull