St Clement

Although th present fabric is Perpendicular in style with a C19 Decorated chancel it has been suggested that the base of the tower could date from the C13 (Cresswell): a church was dedicated at Powderham in 1259 Exterior: Snecked sandstone chancel with set-back buttresses and a 3-light 1860 Decorated east window with carved label stops and a 1-light cusped south window.

South porch (disused) with a moulded outer doorway with cushion stops, a moulded inner doorway and a probably early C17 2-leaf inner door with good ironwork

1860 chancel arch with moulded responds with carved capitals

5-bay north and south arcades with moulded piers and arches and carved capitals, the rood screen sited 1 bay west of the chancel arch.

The rood screen does not fit its present position perfectly, parts of it are said to be the parclose screens to the Greenway aisle at Tiverton (Cresswell), brought to Powderham circa 1820.

A western screen in the tower arch is also partly medieval

4-bay parcloses to the Courtenay pew and the organ chamber are largely C19 with some medieval tracery.

Good choir stalls, those to the rear collegiate in a C17 style, the inner stalls with poppyhead finials.

The nave has a late C19 open timber drum pulpit, an octagonal font with a carved bowl, either designed or recut in the C19, on a thick stem with a probably C18 font cover.

Set of late C19 benches with wide square-headed ends carved with tracery.

Sculptured Royal Arms over the south door fixed on top of an earlier, painted, Royal Arms.

A painting by Cosway, formerly part of the reredos, hangs on the north wall and the sculptured figures of Moses and Aaron on the tower screen may also originate from an earlier reredos.

Monuments Circa early C14 effigy of a lady beneath an ogee arch in the north wall of the chancel in an unusually good state of preservation with a square-headed head- dress, the head supported by angels, the feet resting on a dog with an ornamented collar.

On the south side of the chancel a stone canopied tomb is inset with a brass foliated cross and brass plaques to members of the Courtenay family are fixed to the base.

The monument, finely carved, is said by Cresswell to be a copy of the medieval Courtenay tomb at Colyton but Bond and Camm record that it incorporates ornamental stone screenwork removed from Tiverton church in the early C19.

Glass C15 fragments collected in a window in the north aisle by Drake of Exeter in 1906.

East window of the Courtenay family pew by Willement, north window by Beer of Exeter with a memorial date of 1843.

2 windows in the south aisle with quarry glass by Drake of Exeter.