St Mary And St Giles
Buckerell
Devon
The cruciform plan suggests a C13 or C14 core, the church is said to have been dedicated in 1319, C15 alterations, restoration of the 1830s and 1840s "under the direction of the present worthy vicar, Rev. Ed. Coleridge", , reseating of 1906 by R.W. Sampson of Sidmouth Rendered stone, slate roofs.
Architectural Features
Exterior: Chancel with buttresses to the east wall, 3-light C19 or C20 Perpendicular traceried east window with a hoodmould and carved label stops The north side has a probably C19 2-light traceried window.
On the south side the chancel retains some probably C17 lead guttering decorated with a vine.
Circa late 1830s south-east Gothic vestry, gabled to the east and the south with a 2- light C19 Perpendicular south window and a west door with a hollow-chamfered doorframe carved with a black letter inscription "Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness" and a C19 plank and stud door.
2-light C19 Perpendicular west window with carved label stops
The chancel has a C19 piscina and aumbry and a late C19 timber and brass communion rail.
C17 style reredos with a frieze of round-headed timber arches, late C19 choir stalls.
4-bay chancel screen, Perpendicular and said to have brought to the church from eleswhere in the C19: medieval coving on both sides, the fenestration has been altered.
The nave has probably late C18 or early C19 box pews with fielded panels, pulpit and lectern of 1911 and an early C19 Perpendicular style font with an octagonal bowl decorated with tracery.
The west gallery with a canted projection in the centre has been considerably repaired, but retains some C17 brackets.
Glass The chancel retains fragments of an early C19 scheme re-set on glass quarries including a memorial window to Edward Coleridge on the north side and one to Eleauor Northcote, died 1848, on the south side.
The north transept has a fine monument to Admiral Graves by John Bacon, 1792 with a figure in relief in a roundel below an eagle and a tall tapering back plate.
Several early C19 wall tablets and, in the south transept, a rather unusual wall monument to Alfred Ford, vicar, died 1904, signed Keith and Co.
A brass panel with a brass inlay border in a polished black frame with pink marble brackets and 2 angles holding a Chalice.
On the south wall of the nave a wall monument to Isabella Sedgewick, died 1767 with needed jambs and brackets, crowned with an urn with a flower festoon.