St Mary Blessed Virgin

E end of N aisles, otherwise C15.

EXTERIOR: plinth, buttressed bays to aisles with parapet cornice, carved gargoyles and buttress pinnacles

C14 windows to E ends of N aisles

chancel, otherwise mostly C15 or restored Perpendicular windows, most of 3 lights, all with tracery and hoodmoulds.

below the window is the crest of the Strode family, who settled at Newham, near Plympton in 1394, all above a virtually round-arched moulded doorway with carved spandrels and square hoodmould.

N porch has moulded 2-centred arched doorway with moulded hood, carved spandrels and moulded parapet cornice above

The W side has 2-light window to top of 2nd stage and 3-light window over moulded pointed-arched doorway with carved spandrels and square hoodmould.

C14 piscina, and stone vault with lierne ribs over the entrance within the S porch.

FITTINGS: C15 octagonal font

STAINED GLASS: some glass to outer S aisle by Burlison & Grylls and glass at E end of N aisle and W end of S aisle by Clayton & Bell.

MONUMENTS: altar slab from priory in S porch

medieval tomb lid with cross to outer N aisle and chest tomb to Richard Strode, d. 1464, with figures of mourners and effigy with armour, the top with ogee arches and horizontal cresting

large tripartite wall monument with Ionic columns and family group to Sir William Strode, died 1637

cast stone monument to W Seymour, died 1801 by Coade & Sealy

monument with 2 white putto leaning against an obelisk with figure of a boy to Viscount Boringdon who died 1817 aged 11, by FN Delaistre, 1819, and monument with profile head to Richard Rosdew, d. 1837, by Chantrey.