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Listed building outline: Church Of St Andrew 390782

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Church Of St Andrew 390782

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.538157 50.468464,-3.538144 50.468431,-3.538197...
• entry-date: 1952-11-20
• listed-building: 1206837
• name: Church Of St Andrew
• notes: Parish church, now in use by the Greek Orthodox Church. Tower probably C13; C15 aisles; restored 1849; chancel enlarged 1873 by John Hayward of Exeter. Local grey limestone and red sandstone rubble (roughcast before 1849), chancel snecked; slate roof; some granite windows. PLAN: Nave; chancel; north and south aisles; west tower; south-west porch. EXTERIOR: The C19 chancel has a 3-light traceried east window, 2-light traceried north window; lean-to vestry to south. 4-bay buttressed north aisle with set-back buttresses at the east end and 3-light C19 traceried windows. South aisle also buttressed with 3-light granite Perpendicular traceried windows and a gabled porch in the western bay with a low chamfered doorway. Unbuttressed battered west 3-stage tower with a parapet and plain north-east stair turret to the 2nd stge. Chamfered west doorway. 3-light Perpendicular granite traceried west window; 2-light belfry openings. INTERIOR: inspection not possible but Pevsner refers to an oak reredos by Hems of Exeter; mahogany bench ends and stained glass in the style of Clayton & Bell by Wailes. Monument to Thomas Cary, d.1567 noted by Pevsner as of special interest combining Perpendicular and early Renaissance detail. c1561 brass to Wilmot Cary. Other monuments to Thomas Ridgeway, d.1604 and George Cary, d.1758. Minor early C19 wall tablets. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: P.849). Listing NGR: SX9095264308
• reference: 390782
• start-date: 1952-11-20