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St Margaret

St Margaret

Stoodleigh

Devon

Font probably C12

Architectural Features

west tower, western bays of nave and aisle C15, church extended by one bay to the east, chancel rebuilt and whole church thoroughly restored 1872-9 by Henry Woodyer at a total cost of £2,300.

Medieval masonry rubble.

Plan and Development Woodyer extended the nave and aisle by one bay and entirely rebuilt the chancel and aisle south wall incorporating the medieval south doorway and some earlier masonry.

Exterior: C15 battlemented tower with a plinth, diagonal buttresses and a 3-sided north-east stair turrett.

Medieval 4-centred west doorway, 3-light C19 Perpendicular west window

The nave has buttresses and 2- and 3-light Perpendicular windows except a C19 Decorated pulpit window to the east of the rectangular stair turret.

Gabled south porch with a 2- centred outer doorway and C19 roof and a C19 outer order added to the late medieval moulded inner doorway

probably C17 panelled door.

notable late medieval nave roof.

Rendered walls, the edge of the render decorated to draw attention to the medieval openings.

Tall medieval chamfered tower arch with pyramid stops and abutment to the north and south faces

richly moulded chancel arch by Woodyer with moulded responds and carved capitals.

4-bay arcade, the easternmost bay a Woodyer copy of the late medieval slender piers with corner shafts carrying moulded Tudor arches on foliage- carved capitals.

Depressed medieval segmental arch presumably resited between chancel and south chancel chapel with C19 parclose.

Fine late medieval open wagon roof to the nave, presumably extended by Woodyer, with moulded ribs and an unusual variety of carved bosses

wall plates carved with rustic green men.

The nave has an unusual possibly C12 font

a round bowl on a cylindrical stem decorated with 2 carved profile heads and mouldings on the base

C19 font cover in the Romanesque style.

1879 brattished stone pulpit with bold tracery panels

Important set of ten Hardman windows with memorial dates between 1862 and 1910: a series which adds to the coherence of the interior.

C19 brass fittings in chancel possibly also by Hardman.

Painted Royal Arms dated 1742 in frame on nave wall.