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St Nicholas

St Nicholas

Combe Raleigh

Devon

Largely C15 with substantial C19 restoration, date of 1700 on the gable.

Architectural Features

Similarities between mouldings of the arcade, tower arch and chancel arch suggests a major phase of rebuilding in the C15.

The nave has a large square-headed probably C16 4-light window with cinquefoil-headed lights and a buttress with set-offs.

wide segmental-arched outer doorway with a hoodmould, stone-topped benches, a medieval ceiled wagon roof and a moulded inner doorway with a 3-centred arched head.

The north aisle has 3-light traceried west and east windows, and 4 4-light square-headed probably C16 windows with cusped lights, 1 buttress with set-offs and a rectangular stair turret with a 2-light square-headed window to the right of the turret.

probably C15 Beerstone chancel arch with a hollow-chamfered moulding and capitals only to the engaged shafts

C15 moulded tower arch carried on boldy-carved corbels with variants of the green man.

Late C19 or C20 ceiled wagon to the nave, medieval ceiled wagon to the aisle and north chancel chapel

The sanctuary has a trefoil-headed piscina and a probably C17 communion rail with thick turned balusters, returning along the north side.

Probably re-cut medieval font with an octagonal bowl with quatrefoils and boldy-carved foilage below the bowl.

C19 or early C20 pulpit in a C17 manner

The nave and aisle floor are paved with probably early C19 red and black tiles with some C17 ledger stones set in it.

Stained Glass: East window probably by Drake of Exeter memorial date 1885.

The tower window and westernmost window of the nave have brighly-coloured non-pictorial glass from the circa 1830s.

Memorials: Series of C18, C19 and C20 wall plaques, mostly white marble, in the nave.

The north chancel chapel has a wall monument to James Bernard, Lord of the Manor, died 1823, and others of the family and a brass to William Henry Bernard, died 1872.