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St Mary

St Mary

Tamerton Foliot

Devon

C15 nave, chancel and tower

Architectural Features

S aisle C15 but rebuilt 1851, porch enlarged and chancel and S aisle roofs heightened at same date

C13 N aisle rebuilt wider 1894-95

EXTERIOR: 4 x C15 3-light windows with Perpendicular tracery to S aisle, similar window to W end and E window restored in the C19.

E chancel window has C19 Perpendicular style tracery within a C15 frame.

Nave has waggon roof with C15 carved bosses, similar bosses to S aisle, chancel and N aisle also have waggon roofs.

FITTINGS: C15 octagonal granite Perpendicular font decorated with shields

C17 pulpit made up from linenfold panelling and other Renaissance fragments, C19 base incorporating old panels

Royal arms of George III with dates 1671, 1730 and 1810

STAINED GLASS: E window 1865.

MONUMENTS: tomb chest with knight and lady to members of the Gorges family, probably C14

ornate wall monument with kneeling figures under a pair of round arches to Sir John Coplestone and his wife Susannah, 1617, repaired and re-erected 1894 and with kneeling children below

alabaster shrouded female statue monument, with flanking female seated figures, to Susannah Calmady who died in 1617

monument to Coplestone Bampfylde who died in 1669

some monuments to the Radcliffes of Warleigh.