Parish Church of St. Ida

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IDE THE GREEN, Ide SX 89 SE

1/71 Parish Church of St. Ida - 30.6.61 GV II

Parish Church. C15 tower, the rest of the church 1833 by Hooper and Cornish. Tower volcanic trap brought to course, the rest cement-rendered with a slate roof. Plan of tower, nave, shallow chancel, north-west vestry, south porch. Perpendicular C15 tower; the rest of the church was entirely rebuilt in 1833 with an unambitious rectangular nave and shallow chancel with pre-archaeological Gothic detail. In 1909 the chancel was refurbished and the nave was partly re-seated in the early C20 enriching an otherwise rather spartan interior. 4-bay battlemented nave with tall 3-light windows with Perpendicular style tracery. Shallow chancel with similar 4-light east window and a battlemented gable. Flat- roofed north-west vestry, battlemented south-west porch with arched outer doorway. The battlemented west tower (no pinnacles) with a 4-sided south-east stair turret has 2-light traceried belfry openings on all 4 faces and a 1-light chamfered opening at bellringer's stage on the south side. Hooper and Cornish did not treat the west face of the tower sympathetically in 1833, their arched west doorway cuts into the remains of the 3-light Perpendicular west window which has volcanic trap tracery. Interior: Plastered walls. No chancel arch, plastered ceiling with segmental profile. West gallery carried on moulded iron columns. Of the 1833 fittings modestly - panelled box pews survive against the north and south walls, some Gothick panelling in the chancel and a small font with an octagonal bowl. Otherwise the fittings are early C20 by Herbert Read: 13-bay chancel screen with square-headed openings, similar parcloses, reredos, choir furnishings, very large timber drum pulpit on wineglass stem with carved figures under traceried niches, nave benches. Pretty early C20 stained glass with an Art Nouveau influence. 1721 wall monument to Joseph Tothill with a broken pediment and an achievement. An unusual coffin waggon, probably mid to late C19, survives in the nave. Although St. Ida's is not a very distinguished building architecturally it is historically interesting as an example of a local architect/builder's treatment of a medieval church in the decade before the Gothic Revival in the Diocese of Exeter.

Listing NGR: SX8977790328

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