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Church of St Peter

A Grade II* Listed Building in Lamerton, Devon

  • St Peter: church founded c12 but almost entirely rebuilt in Perpendicular style after a fire in 1877

  • St Peter: surviving c15 west tower with diagonal buttresses and crocketed pinnacles

  • St Peter: Victorian nave looking east; no chancel arch

  • St Peter: Victorian tiled reredos at east end of church

  • St Peter: monument to the Tremayne brothers of Collacombe, erected 1588, rebuilt 1707

  • St Peter: Tremayne brothers of Collacombe erected 1588 by surviving brother Digory

  • St Peter: pediment from the Tremayne monument, 1588

  • St Peter: verse inscription from the monument to the Tremayne brothers, erected 1588, rebuilt 1707

  • St Peter: inscription from the Tremayne monument with reference to the rebuild of 1707

  • St Peter: shield from the Tremayne monument, 1588; Tremayne impaling Carew

  • St Peter: shield from the Tremayne monument, 1588; Tremayne impaling Grenville

  • St Peter: Hugh Fortescue of Wear Giffard, d.1650, & wife Elizabeth (Coffin of Portledge); busts in arched niches holding hands

  • St Peter: inscription & lower shield from the monument to Hugh Fortescue of Wear Giffard, d.1650

  • St Peter: memorial to George Mitchell Rowe, d.1879; killed while on service with the East Devonshire Regiment in Malta in 1879

  • St Peter: small bronze plaque to Philippa (nee Hawkins), d.1690, wife of Nicholas Rowe of Lamerton

  • St Peter: monument to Hugh Fortescue of Wear Giffard, d.1650, & wife Elizabeth (Coffin of Portledge)

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Entry Name: Church of St Peter

Listing Date: 21 March 1967

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1171163

English Heritage Legacy ID: 93940

ID on this website: 101171163

Location: St Peter's Church, Lamerton, West Devon, PL19

County: Devon

District: West Devon

Civil Parish: Lamerton

Built-Up Area: Lamerton

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

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