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Church of St John the Baptist

A Grade I Listed Building in Ashton, Devon

  • George Chudleigh Memorial

  • Rood Screen

  • Part of screen painting

  • St John the Baptist: early c15 Perpendicular (1420-1455); gabled chancel with three-light c19 window in Perpendicular style

  • St John the Baptist: c15 granite tower with diagonal buttresses & two-light belfry openings

  • St John the Baptist: nave looking east in cream limewash; no chancel arch; piers with clustered shafts; unceiled wagon roof; Perpendicular bench ends

  • St John the Baptist: c15 painted figures in dado

  • St John the Baptist: c15 painted figures in dado

  • St John the Baptist: one of set of early c16 paintings

  • St John the Baptist: c16 Annunciation painting from Chudleigh chapel

  • St John the Baptist: c15 wall painting, on north wall of Chudleigh chapel

  • Ashton, Parish Church, St John the Baptist

  • St John the Baptist: beerstone font donated at the marriage of James Chudleigh & Margaret Stourton in 1476

  • St John the Baptist: arms of Chudleigh (ermine three lioncels rampant gules) impaled with Stourton from the c15 font

  • St John the Baptist: arms of Stourton (sable a bend or between six fountains) from the c15 font

  • St John the Baptist: panel from the tomb of George Chudleigh, d.1657

  • St John the Baptist: stone slab commemorating George Chudleigh d.1691 & Elizabeth Fortescue of Filleigh

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Entry Name: Church of St John the Baptist

Listing Date: 30 June 1961

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1097856

English Heritage Legacy ID: 85535

ID on this website: 101097856

Location: St John the Baptist's Church, Higher Ashton, Teignbridge, Devon, EX6

County: Devon

District: Teignbridge

Civil Parish: Ashton

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Ashton St John the Baptist

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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