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Church of St Brannock

A Grade I Listed Building in Braunton, Devon

  • St Brannock's Church, Braunton

  • St Brannock: large seafaring church in Early English & Perpendicular styles

  • St Brannock: view from the south-west

  • St Brannock: Norman south tower in transeptal position; lead covered broach-spire

  • St Brannock: wide aisless nave with ceiled wagon roof; thick & deep splayed windows, lancets on either side of chancel arch; general restoration 1873

  • St Brannock: wagon roof of nave showing one of the bosses

  • St Brannock: one of the bosses in the nave roof showing a sow with piglets

  • St Brannock: row of c16 bench ends filling the whole nave representing the instruments of the Passion & some figures of saints

  • St Brannock: more bench ends further west showing monograms & trade emblems

  • St Brannock: c16 bench end with the wounds of Christ

  • St Brannock: c16 bench end with tower & figure of a saint

  • St Brannock: reworked Norman font with faces at the corners, tracery is c.1300

  • St Brannock: c16 Portuguese chest given to the church in 1909

  • St Brannock: drawing of Portuguese origin from the c16 chest

  • St Brannock: monument to Nicholas Hooper alias Shepherd of Fulbrook, d.1675, & below, Peter Shepherd, d.1558 & his son John, d.1591

  • St Brannock: memorial to the Incledon family from 1558 to 1698; figures of angels by achievements at the top

  • St Brannock: inscription from the Incledon memorial from Robert Incledon of Buckland, d.1558, to Lewis, d.1698

  • St Brannock: addition below the main Incledon memorial to Mary Incledon (nee Davie), d.1710, Henry Incledon, d.1736, & their son John, d.1746

  • St Brannock: memorial to Frances Baker, d.1782, daughter of Philip Rogers Webber of Buckland

  • St Brannock: memorial to Balthazar Beare of Ashe, d.1682, & wife Elizabeth Leach of Cadeleigh, d.1662

  • St Brannock: replica brass to Elizabeth Bourchier, married name Chichester, d.1548, daughter of John, first Earl of Bath

  • St Brannock: replica of the reverse of the brass to Elizabeth Bourchier, d.1548, showing fragments from a mid c14 mailed knight

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Entry Name: Church of St Brannock

Listing Date: 25 February 1965

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1325560

English Heritage Legacy ID: 98312

ID on this website: 101325560

Location: St Brannock's Church, Braunton, North Devon, EX33

County: Devon

District: North Devon

Civil Parish: Braunton

Built-Up Area: Braunton

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Braunton St Brannock

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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