Netherexe Parish Church (Dedication Unknown)

NETHEREXE PARISH CHURCH (DEDICATION UNKNOWN)

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1097624
Date first listed:
30-Jun-1961
List Entry Name:
Netherexe Parish Church (Dedication Unknown)
Statutory Address:
NETHEREXE PARISH CHURCH (DEDICATION UNKNOWN)
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1097624
Date first listed:
30-Jun-1961
List Entry Name:
Netherexe Parish Church (Dedication Unknown)
Statutory Address 1:
NETHEREXE PARISH CHURCH (DEDICATION UNKNOWN)

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:
NETHEREXE PARISH CHURCH (DEDICATION UNKNOWN)

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Nether Exe
National Grid Reference:
SX 93126 99830

Details

NETHEREXE SX 99 NW 3/29 Netherexe Parish Church 30.6.61 (Dedication unknown) - I Parish church. Late-C15. Restoration of 1890; roof of 1906 by Chancellor & Son of Chelmsford. Coursed rubble. Nave and chancel in one; south porch; C19 north vestry opposite porch. North and south walls similar, 3 heavy buttresses with plinth and 2 set-offs 2 square-headed windows. South door and porch entrance both with chamfer and hollow moulding and moulded bases. East window framed between 2 buttresses which leave angles clear; 3-light Perpendicular with very weathered faces as hood-mould terminals. This window may have been reset. West end with square bellcote (with bell); 2-light west window, Perpendicular with quatrefoil in head; west doorway identical to the others. Upper courses of wall particularly rebuilt in 1906. Interior: Norman font, square bowl with scalloped underside, circular shaft, square base with scalloped top. Trefoil headed piscina in south sanctuary wall. Tall, elongated, blocked doorway to east of present entrance. Deep window recesses under chamfered rear arches. Good roof 1906; open rafters, collars, studs and moulded wall-plate, and 3 crenellated tie beams. Monument: to Mary Young, d.1771; cartouche with putti heads and heraldic device, surmounted by obelisk. Marble. Although Devon is rich in late-C15 churches, complete small chapels of this date are rare. Netherexe church stands by itself in a field, but was formerly associated with a nearby manor house (now gone). Source: Pevsner, p210. Devon C19 Churches Project

Listing NGR: SX9312999830

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Legacy System number:
86089
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Devon, (1952), 210

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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