St Nectan

Plan: C13 cruciform plan, most of the lancet windows are restored but may be copies of the Early English originals

north aisle added in the C15.

rounded moulded chancel arch on moulded responds with carved capitals.

North arcade with rounded moulded arches on carved capitals and plaster pendants above the capitals in the spandrels.

Fine probably C17 chair (not English) in the chancel with inset panels.

The nave has a good gilded timber eagle lectern dated 1735, on a big turned stem

SX9179 : St Nectan, Ashcombe, Devon - Lectern

© John Salmon

C19 octagonal font on a pink marble stem with slender black marble shafts openwork font cover.

SX9179 : St Nectan, Ashcombe, Devon - Font

© John Salmon

Interesting and unusual set of C16 or C17 benches wih bench ends carved with 2 tiers of blind tracery, the borders carved with grotesques, reptiles and snakes.

Probably C17 chair with inlaid back in nave.

Memorials Wall tablet in chancel to Jane Parkyns, died 1817, signed Jago and Davey of Dawlish.

Glass Fragments of late medieval C17 and C18 glass, including some Flemish roundels, leaded into the east window in patterns, north transept east window with memorial date 1885 probably by Drake of Exeter.

A rare example for Devon of a largely C13 church.