St Michael And All Angels And Lych Gate

extended in early C16.

The late-C15 two-stage west tower has a chamfered plinth, moulded stringcourses with a gargoyle at each corner of the upper stringcourse, an embattled parapet and setback corner buttresses rising halfway up the second stage.

The west doorway is set within a pointed arched surround with mouldings and vine carvings.

INTERIOR The north doorway is early C16 and has a hollow chamfered surround with label stops and a studded oak door.

On a wooden plinth above the door is a gilded angel that formerly surmounted a tester over the pulpit (visible in historic photographs), and high in the wall to the left is a blocked doorway to the parvis (room above the porch).

The tower has a tall pointed arch and below this, separating the base of the tower from the nave is a four-bay section of an early-C20 rood screen which was made to replace the medieval screen that originally extended across the chancel and north and south chapels until it was destroyed by the fire in 1911 (Honiton u3a, see Sources).

The west window has stained glass of 1827 which survived the fire.

The early-C16 arcade has clustered piers with foliate and fruit carved capitals that support roll-moulded arches with pointed heads.

At the east end of the nave is a decorative timber pulpit.

restored in the mid-C19, and in the south aisle is a late-C19 octagonal pedestal font that was restored in 1912

The east window contains some stained glass from 1827, and the embellished reredos is early C20.

Among the C18 and C19 wall memorials is one to George Blagdon Westcott, Captain of the HMS Majestic who died in 1798 at the Battle of the Nile.

It has common rafters with chamfered ribs and carved bosses, and at the crossing it is carried by piers and corbels to the west and east respectively

SUBSIDIARY FEATURE At the north entrance to the churchyard is a memorial lych gate of 1909 to Hugh John Fortescue which was restored in 1976.