History in Structure

Church of St Andrew

A Grade I Listed Building in Kenn, Devon

  • Kenn, Parish Church, St Andrew

  • St Andrew: red sandstone, embattled church; heavily restored but basically c14 (chancel) & c15 (aisles & tower)

  • St Andrew: view from the south east showing three-light Perpendicular windows (much renewed)

  • St Andrew: embattled c15 west tower with polygonal stair turret; embattled porch with set back buttresses

  • St Andrew: Decorated chancel; c14 five light east window with intersecting tracery & pointed quatrefoils

  • St Andrew: nave with tall red octagonal piers carrying double chamfered arches; otherwise interior is mainly Victorian by Porter & Woodyer

  • St Andrew: reredos attributed to Fulford & Harvey 1887-1890; marble shafts, fan vaulting & blind tracery

  • St Andrew: glass in south window of south chapel with some late c15 or early c16 shields including Courtenay (bottom right)

  • St Andrew: c12 Norman table-top style font of Purbeck marble; square bowl with blind arcading

  • St Andrew: early c16 Perpendicular rood screen; restored with renewed fan coving in the 1880s

  • St Andrew: screen dado (or wainscoting) with early c16 paintings of saints

  • St Andrew: saints from the rood screen dado, c.1500; St Sebastian, St Roche, St Francis of Assisi, St Hubert

  • St Andrew: saints from the rood screen dado, c.1500; St Matthias, St Bartholomew, St Jude, St Simon

  • St Andrew: saints from the rood screen dado, c.1500; on the doors, St Jerome, St Gregory, St Augustine, St Ambrose

  • St Andrew: saints from the rood screen dado, c.1500; St Anne & Virgin Mary, St Cecelia, St Helena, St Mary of Egypt

  • St Andrew: saints from the rood screen dado, c.1500; St Bridget of Sweden, St Christina, St Genevieve, St Sidwell

  • St Andrew: saints from the rood screen dado, c.1500; St John, St Luke, St Matthew, St Mark

  • St Andrew: saints from the rood screen dado, c.1500; St Juliana, an abbess, St Faith, St Veronica

  • St Andrew: close up of St Mary of Egypt shown naked & wasted carrying loaves & a book

  • St Andrew: close up of St Bridget of Sweden, d.1373, shown as a crowned abbess writing on a scroll, dove hovers over her shoulder

  • St Andrew: close up of St Apollonia?, normally shown with tooth & pincers but not clear here

  • St Andrew: memorial to Richard Waltham of Trehill, d.1637; official civic gown proclaiming his status as recorder of Exeter

  • St Andrew: memorial to William Hutchinson of Kenn, d. c.1643; chaplain to James I & Charles I

  • St Andrew: classical white marble memorial to John Geere of Kenn, d.1748

  • St Andrew: classical white marble memorial to William Long, d.1770

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Entry Name: Church of St Andrew

Listing Date: 30 June 1961

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1097721

English Heritage Legacy ID: 85820

ID on this website: 101097721

Location: St Andrew's Church, Kenn, Teignbridge, Devon, EX6

County: Devon

District: Teignbridge

Civil Parish: Kenn

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Kenn St Andrew

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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