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Church of St Winifred

A Grade I Listed Building in Manaton, Devon

  • Church of St Winifred

  • St Winifred: c15 church set in village at the foot of Dartmoor; restoration after storm of 1779 which destroyed much of the building

  • St Winifred: view from the south-east showing all embattled aisle, turret & porch

  • St Winifred: unbuttressed west tower with stair-turret & pinnacles

  • St Winifred: interior with Perpendicular granite piers & depressed arches; ceiled wagon roofs

  • St Winifred: early c16 screen with four-light tracery restored by Sedding in 1893; coving much renewed, two decorated cornice bands

  • St Winifred: early c16 screen dado or wainscoting with painted panels of saints

  • St Winifred: small defaced statuettes of apostles in the jambs of the central doorway of screen

  • St Winifred: early c16 panels of saints damaged during the Reformation; St Helen, a female saint, St Blaise, a pilgrim saint

  • St Winifred: early c16 panels of saints damaged during the Reformation; St Ursula, St Nicholas, St Andrew, St Jude?

  • St Winifred: early c16 panels of saints damaged during the Reformation; St Matthias, St James the Great, St Bartholomew, St Paul

  • St Winifred: early c16 panels of saints damaged during the Reformation; St Gregory, St Jerome, St Augustine, St Ambrose

  • St Winifred: early c16 panels of saints damaged during the Reformation; St Peter, St Thomas, St Philip, St Simon

  • St Winifred: early c16 panels of saints damaged during the Reformation; St James the Less, St John, St John the Baptist, St Barbara

  • St Winifred: early c16 panels of saints damaged during the Reformation; St Apollonia, the Virgin Mary

  • St Winifred: Victorian reredos with figures on a gold background within wooded nichework

  • St Winifred: painting from the reredos with Biblical scene of the Annunciation

  • St Winifred: painting from the reredos with Biblical scene of the Nativity

  • St Winifred: bench end carved by the Pinwll sisters

  • St Winifred: four c15 figures at top of one of the north aisle windows

  • St Winifred: memorial slab to John French, d.1642, & wife Thomasine, d.1635

  • St Winifred: memorial slab to Honor, d.1658, wife of John French

  • St Winifred: memorial slab to Alice Langsford, d.1698

  • St Winifred: memorial slab to Richard Eastchurch, rector of this parish, d.1698

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Entry Name: Church of St Winifred

Listing Date: 23 August 1955

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1097224

English Heritage Legacy ID: 84989

ID on this website: 101097224

Location: St Winifred's Church, Manaton, Teignbridge, Devon, TQ13

County: Devon

District: Teignbridge

Civil Parish: Manaton

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Manaton St Winifred

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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