Church of All Saints

All Saints: mainly c15 church set in picturesque village close to Bigbury Bay
All Saints: approach from the south; Perpendicular fourlight windows with no tracery; embattled porch; priest’s door to the east
All Saints: c15 west tower with five-sided stair turret considerably higher; battlements without pinnacles
All Saints: nave basically c15; restored 1904
All Saints: south aisle & arcade with double chamfered arches; Pevsner A type piers
All Saints: deeply splayed c13 lancet windows in chancel, the oldest part of the church
All Saints: monument to Henry Luscombe, rector, d.1634
All Saints: memorial to Thomas Stephens of Clannacombe, d.1658, his daughter Amia & grandson Thomas who both died the same year
All Saints: kneeling figures from the memorial to Thomas Stephens of Clannacombe, d.1658; small girl in red floating above
All Saints: memorial to Julian, d.1677, wife of Thomas Stephens of Clannacombe
All Saints: incised slab in memory of Thomas Stephens, d.1665
All Saints: memorial to Frances Stephens, d.1674, aged about eight
All Saints: verse probably relating to a younger Thomas Stephens
All Saints: memorial slab with long Latin inscription to George Snell, Archdeacon of Totnes, d.1700
All Saints: inscription set in south porch bearing the date 1614 copied on a new slate stone in 1903