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Church of St Paul

A Grade I Listed Building in Staverton, Devon

  • St Paul de Leon: mostly c15 Perpendicular church with early c14 tower

  • St Paul de Leon: star shaped tracery in chancel window; south aisle ones renewed 1873 with plate tracery

  • St Paul de Leon: early Perpendicular nave; arches of red sandstone & white Beerstone; granite piers topped by capitals with fleurons

  • St Paul de Leon: rood screen across nave & aisles, repaired & rebuilt 1893

  • St Paul de Leon: Worth family monument, 1629; kneeling figures, the children above the parents

  • St Paul de Leon: figures from the Worth monument, 1629; Arthur Worth of Staverton (d.1614) & wife Susan in front

  • St Paul de Leon: crest & inscription from the Worth monument, 1629

  • St Paul de Leon: brass to John Rowe of Kingston in Staverton, d.1592, placed on exterior wall

  • St Paul de Leon: memorial to Dorothy (nee Horde), d.1655, wife of George Rowe of Kingston in Staverton

  • St Paul de Leon: mural monument to Thomas Rowe of Sparkwill, d.1729

  • St Paul de Leon: wall monument showing arms of Rowe of Staverton impaling Trevelyan

  • St Paul de Leon: brass plate to Margaret, d.1662, wife of Edward Gould of Coombe

  • St Paul de Leon: memorial to Edward Bovey of Badaford, d.1714

  • St Paul de Leon: memorial to Edward Bovey of Badaford, d.1811; cut out marble urn (Coulman fecit)

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Entry Name: Church of St Paul

Listing Date: 9 February 1961

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1108524

English Heritage Legacy ID: 100629

ID on this website: 101108524

Location: St Paul's Church, Staverton, South Hams, Devon, TQ9

County: Devon

District: South Hams

Civil Parish: Staverton

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Staverton with Landscove

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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