Architectural Features
slate roof with crested ridge tiles.
The medieval work is Perpendicular but with some idiosycratic detail to the tower.
shallow-moulded arched granite west doorway medieval 3-light granite Perpendicular west windows.
Interior: Outstanding for the C15 glass in the north aisle, the most complete scheme of medieval stained glass in Devon outside the Cathedral.
painted, richly-moulded 5-bay Beerstone Perpendicular arcade with carved foliage capitals.
Late 1870s moulded unceiled wagon to nave with carved foliage bosses
C15 keeled boarded wagon to aisle.
Nave with C18 cut down timber drum pulpit
C16 bench ends with blank quatrefoils above rounded blank arches, some fixed to later benches.
Stained Glass: Chancel east window by Morris Drake, 1912.
Outstanding survival of late C15 stained glass in the north aisle by the Doddiscombsleigh atelier who were probably based in Exeter where they provided glass for the Cathedral.
SX8586 : Doddiscombsleigh, St. Michael's Church: Late c15th stained glass window 5 detail 3
The 4 windows on the south side have single figures to each light the highest quality glass is in the iconographically interesting seven sacraments east window.
The central figure of Christ was supplied by Clayton and Bell (the original figure was probably standing (q.v. Cadbury)
stylized streams of blood from Christ's wounds link the central figure to lively scenes of the seven sacraments with notable domestic and costume detail.
Outstanding survival of medieval stained glass scheme.
Brooks, C.L. and Evans, D., unpublished notes on the stained glass of Doddiscombsleigh Church.