Architectural Features
Exterior: tall west tower of 3 stages with diagonal buttresses and embattled parapet witn crocketted corner pinnacles and carved gargoyles.
It contains a carved representation of the Virgin and Child
it is very worn but appears to be C17.
The windows each end were renewed in the late C17
they have reused Gothic tracery and they are set in the late C17 brick.
It has a parapet carved with quatrefoil panels and enriched with carved shields and 4-leaf motifs.
The outer arch is 2-centred with moulded surround including a band of 4-leaf motifs and the label stops of the hoodmould are carved as angels with shields.
The south aisle windows are 3 lights with Perpendicular tracery and carved human head label stops to the hoodmoulds.
In the chancel the windows to north and south are C19, square- headed with cusped tracery, the southern one distinguished by carved human head label stops to the hoodmoulds.
Interior is very good: both the nave and aisle have late C17 or C18 plaster vaults, both with moulded cornices but the nave is distinguished by a dentil frieze and, towards the chancel the nave ceiling includes an ornamental section, a ceilure of octagonal panels with bosses like ceiling roses.
The chancel roof is a ceiled wagon roof with moulded ribs and purlins and bosses all carved as the Green Man.
It is painted and therefore it is not clear how much of it, if any, is C15.
The moulded piers are Pevsner's type B with carved foliage caps.
The pier between nave and chancel is wider than the others and incorporates a Tudor arch-headed hagioscope.
On the northern side of the chancel arch and facing the nave is the remains of an image niche for which the rood screen makes provision.
Its surround is richly carved.
The floor is flagged and the aisle includes a couple of good C17 graveslabs.
Rood screen: is a splendid example.
Carved oak, 9 bays, with panelled wainscotting, Perpendicular window tracery (Pevsner's type A), Gothic tracery in the coving, and frieze of 3 bands of undercut delicate foliage with a vallance.
All 34 panels are painted with a different figure, mostly saints but some New Testament figures, a bishop and a royal scene Furniture and fittings: sanctuary is lined with restored late C17 linenfold panelled wainscotting including a frieze of maybe Flemish carved classical female figures.
Depicting the Resurrection.
C18 fielded panel pulpit and late C19 Gothic lectern.
Very good and complete set of C15 oak benches
blind tracery on the frontals and back benches, ends carved with similar schemes of flowers and 2 tiers of tracery.
The only additions a couple of late C17 benches and one C19 example.
octagonal bowl with quatrefoil panels, carved foliage base and panelled stem.
cover complete with carved bird on the apex.
Memorials: are small, C19 in date and of local interest only.
Good carved alabaster panel in south aisle represents the Resurrection of Jesus.
At the back of the aisle C16 nowy-headed Prayer and Commandment boards and tower includes painted arms of George II.
Glass: good deal of early painted and stained glass in the window tracery and some bottle glass in the south aisle.
The nave windows are for the most part diamond leaded panes of old clear glass and the centre window includes some patterned yellow grisaille glass.
perhaps the paradigm of a rural parish church in Devon it has escaped the worst excesses of C19 renovation and includes fine craftmanship from the C15 onwards.
The painted figures on the screen wainscotting are a remarkable survival.