← Database
St George

St George

Monkleigh

Devon

Late C15 south aisle

Architectural Features

mid C19 vestry to north with pointed-arched doorway and Tudor-style window

hood mould with rosette-carved stops over 4-light Perpendicular window with Y-tracery and some C19 restoration.

C15 chamfered and pointed-arched priest's door to east.

C15 gabled south porch: C19 sundial above moulded granite doorway

niche for statue above similar inner doorway which has C19 door with C15 decoratively-carved lock.

mid C19 Perpendicular-style 3-light windows over C15 doorway with moulded-arched architrave and ancient studded plank door

C15-C17 Barnstaple tiles set in chancel floor, and to nave and aisle.

Late C15 south arcade, of granite, has moulded depressed arches set on quatrefoil-section piers, and Perpendicular capitals with relief-carved lozenges to abaci.

South aisle has C15 waggon roof with moulded ribs, floral-carved bosses and trailing vine-leaf decoration to arcade plate.

Fittings: mid C19 altar rail with reset C17 balusters.

Mid C19 choir stalls, Gothic-style traceried pulpit, eagle lectern, traceried west screen and benches: late C15/early C16 carved bench ends at west end of nave have carvings of the Passion symbols, arms of Annery families, tracery, and beasts.

The finest feature of this church is the early C16 parclose screen in the south Annery chapel, "amongst the most remarkable of the many Devon screens" (Pevsner): Perpendicular openwork tracery in upper panels, with richly-carved leaf decoration, (including Pelican and Tudor rose) in spandrels and to frieze above)

The carvings are remarkably similar to those at Weare Giffard Hall (q.v.).

South door of chapel has late C15 architrave with finely-carved foliate decoration.

C15 carved bench ends in chapel include some C15 trade emblems.

Memorials: C17/18 ledger stones set in floors.

memorial to John Saltren, d. 1794, has stele-type tablet set on obelisk-shaped mount

Late C16 brass of kneeling man, set amongst twisted columns, heraldic shields and other decorative plasterwork from a former monument, is set above north chancel door.

North transept has inscribed slate plate to Jane Coffin, d. 1646, and her baby son: they are depicted as a reclining mother holding her son

inscribed slate plate set in shouldered marble architrave to Henry Hurdinge, d. 1627, shows Hurdinge, his 2 wives and children kneeling at prayer.

Also in north transept is monument with epitaph to William Gaye, d. 1631

black marble pilasters flank two demi-figures both with their heads supported by their hands.

C18 wall memorial has slate inscription panel set in architectural frame with heraldic shields.

This chapel also has fine monument to Sir William Hankford, Chief Justice of the King's bench, d. 1422: vine-leaf frieze with angel holding shield is set above recess, which has crocketed canopy to depressed pointed arch and quatrefoils to intrados of arch

two C15 brasses set into slate ledger stones in front of tomb.

Stained glass: fine east window of the 1890s

C16 Flemish glass reset at heads of south chapel windows

Hoskins has suggested that the parclose screen may date from 1537, when Dame Anne St. Ledger founded a chantry in the Annery chapel. , p.