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The Parish Church of St Mary

The Parish Church Of St Mary

Rewe

Devon

Mainly C15 but of 2 builds: nave and north aisle of circa 1450

Architectural Features

north transept (formerly the Wadham chantry) and chancel of 1495, built by Sir Nicholas Wadham Tower substantially rebuilt 1810.

Nave south wall, south porch and much of the chancel rebuilt (probably re-using medieval materials) 1867-8, by Edward Ashworth.

South side: porch 2-centred doorway with diagonal corner buttresses and apex cross, 3-light Perpendicular style window and castellated stair turret (to light pulpit) all by Ashworth.

Chancel with one square-headed 2-light window of circa 1495 to north and south

North Aisle, two 3-light windows to north side, 1 to west end, Perpendicular of circa 1450, buttresses between, 2 off-sets, that to the north-west angle set diagonally.

North window re-used in 1495 from north aisle, and identical to the aisle windows

Interior: 3-bay mid-C15 arcade, wavy moulding, 4 shield.-bearing angels and foliage to capitals

west capital with a figure grasping fronds.

Roofs, wagon, largely C19 but with some medieval bases, and shield-bearing angel corbels in chancel.

Probably 1495, but possibly recut.

Medieval woodwork: Screen of 5 bays, conventional Perpendicular tracery, but with much cusping and, in the upper lights, little shields a bouche, with lance notches.

Although more typically a late-C14 feature, the screen is probably mid to late C15.

A good set of 32, circa 1500.

Font: C15 octagonal, stone, quatrefoil to each bowl panel, plain stem.

Stone polygonal pulpit, 1867-8, traceried panels heavily painted, on stem with foliage knot

Almsbox, panelled, on fluted column with pronounced entasis, wooden and dated 1631.

Monuments: North transept.

East wall : mural monument to Paul Draper of Exeter, d. 1689

Sanctuary, north, mural monument to Frances Tripp with epitaph poem by her husband.

Glass: North aisle, north west window by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, 1900.