Architectural Features
Further altered internally in 1876-83 at a cost of over £100, and restored in 1886-90 at a cost of £730.
Second-stage west window of 2 hollow-chamfered cinquefoil-headed lights under square head with panelled spandrels and returned hoodmould, and first-stage west window of 4 ogee cinquefoil-headed lights with moulded mullions, panelled intersecting tracery, hollow chamfered and moulded reveals incorporating attenuated carved nook shafts with small bases and capitals, and hoodmould lath stops.
Clock above niche with convex face and gilded hands and figures on blue background.
Moulded Tudor-arched priest's doorway beneath window in second bay from east, with old nail-studded boarded door.
C15 hollow- chamfered plinth, angle buttresses with chamfered offsets, chamfered projecting eaves band and parapet with stone coping and cross at apex.
Moulded archway springing from 2 orders of shafts with moulded bases and capitals, separated by hollow chamfer, and hoodmould with carved square stops.
Blocked moulded Tudor- arched priest's doorway beneath window in second bay from east (plinth returns to ground each side of doorway).
Restored east window (apparently a C19 copy of the Medieval window) of 3 ogee cinqufoil-headed lights with transom, cinquefoil heads to lower parts of lights with quatrefoild circles in spandrels, panelled tracery, hollow-chamfered reveals, and hoodmould with carved winged angels as stops.
Restored south window (apparently a C19 copy of the Medieval original) of 3 ogee cinquefoil-headed lights with quatrefoil circles.
Interior: C15 five-bay aisle arcades with compound piers consisting of 4 shafts with moulded bases and capitals alternating with hollow chamfers (Pevsner type-B), diamond bases and moulded 4-centred arches (hollow chamfer and 2 rolls).
Clerestory window (with carved quatrefoil arches in spandrels, scalloping on underside of arches, and dressed stone jambs (plaster stripped in late C19 or early C20).
Double-chamfered tower arch, the outer chamfer dying into responds and the inner chamfer springing from corbels, with carved rosettes on base, and stone relieving arch.
C15 ceiled waggon roofs to nave and aisles.
Nave roof with transverse and longitudinal moulded wooden ribs, carved bosses (mainly foliate), and C19 moulded wooden wall plate with carved square fleurons and brattishing, supported on small C19 moulded stone corbels.
Aisle roofs also with transverse and longitudinal moulded wooden ribs, carved bosses, and C19 moulded wooden wall plates with carved square fleurons, brattishing, and supported on small C19 moulded stone corbels.
C15 arched doorway at foot of tower stair.
C19 encaustic tiles to chancel.
Fittings: Elaborate C17 panelling to chancel, dated 1609, restored in 1844 (also dated) on 3 walls of sanctuary.
Three-bay north and south sides consisting of panelled base (lower panels with strapwork decoration), set-back upper-panels with circular medallions and short tapered pilasters, frieze with carved grotesque masks and heraldic ornament, and strapwork panel above.
Piers topped by short carved obelisks with spiked globe finials, each resting on 4 globes on top of a small panelled pedestal.
Pedestals to panelling on north wall with superscribed lettering: "E P" and "1609" and on south wall with superscribed lettering "P" and "1844" (probably standing for Poltimore).
Plain lower panels, outer upper panels with central lion masks, elongated panels to centre bay flanking central round-arched panel with Royal Coat of Arms (James I) and the motto: "DELECTARE IN DOMINO", frieze above with foliate ornament and carved shield, and centre raised over further coat of arms (probably Poltimore) set in cartouche, with obeliskes above and at each end.
Late C17 or early C18 Communion rails with vase balusters, moulded bottom and top rails and central gate with flanking panelled dies.
Fine C15 eleven-bay screen across nave and aisles, 4 bays to chancel and 3 to each aisle chapel.
C15 octagonal wooden pulpit (restored in the C19) in front of screen to left with crocketed canopied niches Crocketted pinnacles carved with carved vine trail, tapered bases of 4 tiers of carved vine trails, C19 octagonal stone stem and C19 wooden steps with octagonal posts and ramped handrail.
Early C18 octagonal wooden tester, attached by small panel to screen behind, with panelled soffit (central panel recessed with "IHS" painted in centre), richly carved dentil cornice with acanthus modillions alternating with paterae, and corners breaking forward.
Carved angel blowing the last trump on top of tester.
C19 brass eagle lectern.
Old clock (from tower) in north aisle said to have been made in Barnstaple in 1564 at a cost of £6.
Stained glass: East window of 1858 by Wailes. other late C19 glass in aisle and chancel windows.
Other windows diamond-leaded clear glass.
Monuments: Fine large monument in south-aisle chapel to Sir Amyas Bamfylde , consisting of 4-bay base with kneeling figures of offspring divided by pilasters supporting frieze
top with recumbent effigy of Amyas Bamfylde to right and mourning figure of wife to left.
Achitectral frame consisting of 2 segmental-arched panels to rear with half-relief kneeling figures of offspring facing reading desk to centre, with 4 skulls in panel below, and bracket above with cherub's head (shield in cartouche behind effigy)
C17 wrought- iron grate in front consisting of diagonally-set square railings with spear and halbered tops, and barleysugar standards with urn and halberd tops.
Alabaster tablet in wall to right of monument with Latin inscription in memory of the Bamsfyldes.
Large wall monument in north aisle, to John Burgess Esq. of Upcot , by King of Bath, consisting of oval marble tablet with husk drops to top and base, flanking scrolls, and relief with cherub holding swagged urn and with pyramid behind to left
Cresswell suggests that the clerestory is on addition of c.1500 and gives the principal date of restoration of 1885.