Description

CLOVELLY CLOVELLY COURT PARK
SS 32 SW

5/80 Church of All Saints
20.2.58

GV I

Anglican parish church. Virtually all C15 and early C16, restored in 1843 and again
in 1884. Random and coursed rubble, gabled slate roofs with cruciform finials.
Plan: nave, chancel, north aisle, south porch, south vestry, west tower, south
transept. Perpendicular.
Exterior: 3-stage tower with a crenellated parapet, corner pinnacles, very small
square bell-chamber openings, 3-light Perpendicular west window renewed post 1826,
Perpendicular west doorway. 4-bay nave, 3-bay chancel, on south. 2 and 3-light
windows, tracery renewed post 1826, the south-west window of the chancel with
tracery renewed in 1843. Perpendicular style 3-light south aisle window of 1905
with glass by Compter. East window to chancel 1884 with glass by Kempe. Vestry
with paired reset C14 lancets. Five 2-light windows to north side of the church,
again rewewed tracery post 1826. Porch rebuilt in 1843, simple Norman outer door
opening with chevron ornament, inside benched on flatstone floor. Perpendicular
inner doorway, ribbed door, arch-braced roof with carved bosses. Interior plastered
on polychromatic tile pavements. Continuous nave and chancel under an unceiled
wagon roof. North aisle with a similar unceiled wagon roof, also the transept, all
C15. 4-bay north aisle arcade with depressed 4-centred arch heads, piers of 4-
hollows section with simple facetted capitals. Plain semi-circular head to the
tower arch; a chamfered semi-circular head doorway to tower stair. Square Norman
font with broached corners on a drum base. Detached font bowl to the north-west
corner, possibly C13, tub with ribs at the corners. Nave and aisle with a full set
of C17 benches some minor later restoration. Pulpit dated 1634, the gift of William
Cary of Clovelly Court. Small Jacobean altar gable in the aisle. Jacobean with a
richly carved back. Rich High Victorian Gothic fittings including a recess which
may incorporate some earlier carved work, altar rails, choir stalls, lectern dated
1883, organ by Vowles of 1889, base to pulpit renewed 1900, and oil lamps. The
interior is rich with memorials including a good series of the C17 to chancel walls
with Classical columns and achievements to Carys as well as floor slabs, aisle with
late C18 and early C19 monuments to the Hamlyn family, also nave with monuments and
also floor slabs. North chancel window with fragments of glass, possibly early. 4
bells, 1 dated 1708 and 1 dated 1759.
Source: Hoskins W G., A New Survey of Devon, 1954; Church Guide; Private records
held at Clovelly Court.

Listing NGR: SS3097325134

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17527534

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Old House Care and Repair
• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)