Architectural Features
the west tower,nave,chancel, north and south aisles, transepts and south porch date from the later C15 although certain incongruities of construction suggest that part of the older building may have been incorporated.
The north and south chapels are probably later C16 although the disparity in window styles suggests they may not be exactly contemporary.
To the east of the north chapel is a vestry added probably in the C17.
Moulded stringcourse above each stage on the south side, the top one incorporates a gargoyle.
The aisle and transept windows are large with Perpendicular tracery, very delicately carved on some
The east window of the south chapel has been blocked by the insertion of the monument inside.
It has 2 late C16 3-light windows with cinquefoil heads on its south side.
The south chapel - known as the Drake Chapel - has a good heavily ribbed stone tunnel-vaulted roof of granite richly moulded with carved bosses.
The nave roof is of hammerbeam construction with the figures of angels playing musical instruments - somewhat restored
A few old carved pre-Reformation bench ends survive - one in the north aisle depicts 2 angels bearing heraldic shields - but for the most part they are C19 reproductions.
In the north-west corner of the Church is the granite tub front, probably Norman, with simply moulded girdle, which was discovered in the ground beneath the Church in 1857
this must have been replaced in the C16 by the font in present use which is granite and octagonal on a panelled and decorated pedestal. it has carved foliage below the bowl and its sides are decorated with quatrefoils and shields one of which displays the initial "T" which reputedly refers to John Toker the last Abbot of Buckland Abbey who became the parish priest after the Dissolution.
The Church contains 1 monument by John Bacon on the east wall of the Drake Chapel.
This is a good marble monument to General Elliot, Baron Heathfield who successfully defended Gibraltar during the long siege by Spain of 1779-84.
It depicts a classical female figure holding up a shield with the arms of Gibraltar to a medallion of the General.
On the south wall of the chapel are 2 smaller less elaborate marble monuments the left-hand one by Bacon to Sir Francis Henry Drake - who died 1794 and the right-hand one by Bacon Junior to the 2nd Baron Heathfield who died 1813.
Other notable wall memorials in the chancel are to Amos Crymes vicar of the parish and his 2 step-daughters who died 1770 - 1806 and one by the younger Westmacott to Dame Eleanor Drake who died 1841.
The only surviving fragments of old glass are in the East window depicting angels.