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Church of St Nectan

A Grade I Listed Building in Hartland, Devon

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  • Hartland, Stoke, Parish Church, St Nectan

  • St Nectan: founded on site of collegiate church by Countess Gytha, c.1055 but present building of late c14 Perpendicular

  • St Nectan: mostly c14; embattled aisles, replacement windows of 1848; small figure of St Nectan at east face of tower

  • St Nectan: misty approach from the east

  • St Nectan: c.1360 nave with wagon roof; limestone piers with Catacleuse stone from Cornwall

  • St Nectan: c15 screen spanning width of nave & aisles, 45 feet long

  • St Nectan: c15 screen with conventional dado & tracery but elaborate cornice & coving

  • St Nectan: detail from c15 rood screen; four bands of decoration in cornice, berries in between; decoration of flowers between ribs of coving

  • St Nectan: c14 cross-ribbed wagon roof in north chapel; mostly original bosses

  • St Nectan: altar reredos, 1931, of saints associated with patrons of ten chapels in the parish; St Nectan, St Clare, St Leonard, St Andrew, St Mary, St John, St James, St Catherine, St Martin & St Wenn

  • St Nectan: font, c.1170; stem with cable moulding separated by zig-zag; intersecting arches at bowl; carved heads at corners represent baptised looking down on unbaptised or damned

  • St Nectan: detail of font c.1170; faces in corners are the unbaptised

  • St Nectan: modern windows depicting St Gytha, the foundress & arms of post reformation families associated with the parish

  • St Nectan: modern windows depicting arms of post reformation families associated with the parish

  • St Nectan: late c14 tomb chest of Catacleuse stone brought from Hartland Abbey; quatrefoil base, main panels with traceried roundels

  • St Nectan: painted & gilded brass of Anne Abbott, 1610

  • St Nectan: late c14 figures from the nearby Abbey

  • The church of St Nectan, Hartland, Devon.

  • Church of St Nectan, Hartland, Cornwall

  • Church of St Nectan, Hartland, North Devon

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Entry Name: Church of St Nectan

Listing Date: 20 February 1958

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1333125

English Heritage Legacy ID: 91258

ID on this website: 101333125

Location: St Nectan's Church, Stoke, Torridge, Devon, EX39

County: Devon

District: Torridge

Civil Parish: Hartland

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Hartland St Nectan

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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