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St George

George Nympton

Devon

C15, tower built 1673, restoration and partial rebuilding of 1882 by E.H. Harbottle.

Architectural Features

The tower was built by George Harris, it is not clear from the documentation what it replaced although late C16 bells existed (church guide).

Harbottle's restoration was in the Perpendicular style to match the existing medieval fabric.

The nave (south side) has 2 Perpendicular 3-light traceried windows, much repaired, the western window with carved medieval label stops including one which appears to show a pair of wrestlers.

The north aisle has a 3- light Perpendicular traceried east window and 2 square-headed, probably early C16 north windows with traceried lights.

The interior of the porch has an arched brace roof and an unusual inner doorframe with a deeply-moulded triangular head, possibly C13 in date.

The inner door is probably C16 with a massive lock box and a latch.

Asymmetrical C19 chancel arch at the junction of the nave and chancel roofs with a trumpeting angel painted on the arch which is carried on paired stone corbels.

C19 ceiled wagons to the nave and chance, C15 or C16 ceiled wagon to the north aisle.

3 bay Beerstone arcade with steep moulded arches, piers with corner shafts and boldly-carved foliage caps

Pulpit, lectern, reading desk and chancel seats all memorials of 1880, the chancel seats with poppyheads the pulpit an open traceried timber drum on a stone plinth.

The font is a probably C15 octangonal bowl, the stem decorated with blind tracery with an C18 ogival timber font cover.

The nave benches are C19, carefully incorporating medieval fragments found during the 1882 restoration.

Monuments 3 wall monuments to members of the Karslake family: 2 matching early C19 white marble monuments are signed Kendall

the third is a fine monument to William Karslake, died 1769 in coloured and white Italian marble with a weeping cherub leaning on a sarcophagus.

There are other late C18 and early C19 monuments.