Church of All Saints

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SW 37 NE DUNTERTON DUNTERTON

9/67 Church of All Saints

21.3.67 I

Parish church. Chantry for monastery at Tavistock prior to 1460. Circa early to mid C14 origins with reset tracery and piscina surviving. Nave largely rebuilt, with north aisle and west tower added in circa 1460s. Evidence of slight alteration in nave roof evident on east side of west tower. South porch circa late C15. East wall of chancel possibly partly rebuilt in 1774. Date scratched in masonry. Coursed stone with ashlar west tower with moulded plinth and strings. Curved moulded plinth to north aisle, chancel and nave. On south wall of nave, height of plinth alters between south porch and buttress to east. Slate roofs with nave and chancel in one, projecting beyond north aisle. West tower of 3 stages with set-back buttresses, battlemented parapet and octagonal crenellated turrets and crocketted finials. West door beneath round-headed relieving arch. Round granite arch with moulded jambs with 3 rollmoulds. Hood. Good early studded door with moulded cover strips. Strap hinges. 3-light freestone Perpendicular west window above with cusped headed lights. 2-centred arch with hood. 2-light belfry openings with cusped heads. Slate louvers. North aisle; west window of 1 tall light with cusped heads in rectangular hood. Blocked north door with 4-centred arch with heavy chamfer and segmental hood. Almost round relieving arch. Circa C17 tracery to east with 3 segmental headed lights in 4- centred arch. In partly blocked opening. Remains of lower rood loft stairs projection with reset circa 1330s. Decorated ogee cusped tracery of 1-light above. In rectangular opening originally to rood loft. East windows of north aisle and chancel, C19. Geometric tracery. In south wall, 3-light granite Perpendicular window in rectangular surround with hood. Segmental relieving arch above. To west, 3-light freestone tracery in 4-centred arch with pointed relieving arch. To west of porch, reset, single rectangular light with trefoil cusped head. Rectangular surround with incised spandrels. Gabled south porch with almost round-headed arch with moulded jambs Rectangular surround with incised spandrels. South door with granite, almost round-headed arch with heavy central rollmould, bar and divided spade stops. Good C19 door with reused earlier lock. Interior Cement rendered. 4-bay north arcade with Cornish type A (Pevsner) piers. Moulded bases and carved caps with castellated abaci. 4-centred moulded arcade arches. Moulded tower arch with groups of 3 engaged type A (Pevsner) moulded piers. Moulded 4-centred arch to belfry stairs. Stained original waggon roof to nave and chancel with moulded ribs divided by 3 unmoulded ribs. Carved bosses. Nave with recarved arcade plate on moulded stone brackets. Original wall plate to nave. North aisle with original waggon roof with moulded longitudinal ribs. Porch roof original with moulded ribs and restored wall plate. C19 furnishings. C18 hexagonal timber pulpit on granite base. Fielded panels with inlaid moulded edges. Incised corner pilasters. Octagonal granite font. Simple piscina in south wall of chancel, circa mid C14 with cusped head with blind arch to top. Remains of rood-loft stairs in north aisle. Low, almost round-headed arch to entrance. Stocks in tower. Slate floor throughout. Monuments; above piscina in chancel, engraved slatestone to Matthew Brayford Chyrurgeon, son of Thomas Bayford, 1714. Square panel with inter twined foliage around edge. Also to Thomas Brayford, rector of parish, died 1678. On north wall of chancel, C19 monument of Rev. William Royse rector. In tower, several well engraved slate lids probably from tombchest. On south wall, slate with strap work. Include monuments to Francis ---- died, 1736 and Philip and wife Isabella, c1682.

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