Architectural Features
surviving medieval dressings appear to be Beerstone, early C20 dressings probably Bathstone
The medieval dedication is not known: St Bartholomew since 1742. The west tower seen from the west
The best surviving figure is under an ogee-headed niche on the stair turret.
The niche is decorated with crockets and blind tracery and a figure, St Anthony with his pig, is vigorously carved.
There are similar niches on the west and south faces but the statue is missing from the west face and the figure on the south face is headless.
The west door has a moulded segmental Beerstone arch with a hoodmould below a 3-light early C20 Perpendicular style window with a hoodmould with carved label stops.
Moulded, stopped tower arch, partly concealed by nave roof, the bellringers chamber is floored with probably C16 deeply chamfered intersecting beams.
The priests' door, although refaced on the exterior, is probably late C17/early C18 with original hinges.
C19 choir furnishings include a traceried priests' desk and chair and a timber lectern supported on an angel corbel.
The nave has an 1890 timber drum pulpit with blind traceried panels, one with a figure of St Bartholomew under a nodding ogee arch.
The font, possibly recut and of uncertain date is a square volcanic bowl with chamfered corners on an octagonal stem and plinth.
Spectacular monument to Sir Simon Leach, Sheriff of Devon q.v.
Reputed to be the largest monument of its type in Devon (it is huge!), it contains the effigies of Sir Simon Leach in armour, his second wife Katherine, his son, and daughter-in-law. The son of a Crediton blacksmith, Sir Simon rose through the ranks so to speak, to become High Sheriff of Devon in 1624. Of the 8 children in the group below, one was Sir Walter Leach who was knighted in 1626. The monument was made in c.1630.
Cadeleigh Court d.circa 1637, in the easternmost bay of the aisle.
Two recumbent alabaster figures on a chest with single figures at the head and feet under a round-headed coffered arch supported on coupled Corinithian columns and crowned with a broken pediment and achievement.
The quality of the sculpture is high and the whole monument is richly decorated and lit by the window which it surrounds, which is partly blocked by an oval inscription panel.
According to Cresswell the monument was probably erected during Simon Leach's lifetime , and although other members of the Leach family are commemorated in inscriptions his name does not appear.
The monument was in a state of decay in 1903 when it was restored by Harry Hems of Exeter with money raised by subscription.
a C19 charity and memorial panel in a brattished stone frame on the south wall, commemorating John Wood, died 1843 and a number of late C19 and early C20 wall plaques including an 1890 brass to Thomas Hopkins Britton by Wippel of Exeter.
C19 stained glass includes a good east window, memorial date 1884, maker unidentified
a south chancel window, memorial date 1877 based on the Light of the World.
The westernmost window in the aisle, memorial date 1921, is probably by Percy Bacon, the window next east, memorial date 1902 probably Clayton and Bell.
A rare survival in Devon of a largely C18 interior, the medieval tower is also outstanding.