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Summary

Goodleigh parish church, dedicated to st. Gregory. Pleasant victorian rebuilding lit with clear glass (hoskins). Perpendicular west tower with diagonal buttresses and pinnacles (pevsner).

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II*) 1164580: CHURCH OF ST GREGORY

Other References/Statuses

• Church of England HER: 5221
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS53SE/218
• Old Listed Building Ref (II*)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• PARISH CHURCH (Early Medieval to XXI - 1066 AD to 2009 AD (Between))

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV177625.

Goodleigh parish church, dedicated to st. Gregory. Pleasant victorian rebuilding lit with clear glass (hoskins). Perpendicular west tower with diagonal buttresses and pinnacles (pevsner).

Department of Environment, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV327102.

Church of st. Gregory, late 15th century, early 16th century west tower, otherwise rebuilt 1881 by ashworth. Crenellated parapet, west tower of 3 stages. Slate roofs. Perpendicular style. Flag floor to chancel, decorative patterned tiles to chancel. Wall monuments. Painted royal arms to west side of south aisle dated 1788. See doe list for full details (doe).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV59586.

Hoskins, w. G. /devon/(1954)401.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV59587.

Pevsner, n. /the buildings of england: north devon/(1952)90.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV59588.

Doe/hhr:goodleigh/(18/3/1986)52.

Historic England, 2017, National Heritage List for England, 1164580 (National Heritage List for England). SDV359963.

Parish Church, late C15, early C16 west tower, otherwise rebuilt 1881 by Ashworth. Tower of dressed stone, remainder snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with crested ridge tiles, coped gable ends. Apex gablets surmounted by crosses west tower, nave, chancel and south aisle. West tower of 3 stages. Crenellated parapet with crocketted pinnacles surmounted by crosses. Diagonal buttresses with offsets. Bell-openings on each side of 2 four- centred arched lights with hoodmoulds and louvres. Single trefoil-headed light with hoodmould with returned ends to 2nd stage south-side. Pointed arched C19 3-light west window with intersecting tracery above 4-centred arched west doorway with rough stone voussiors, hoodmould with rosette motifs around the intrados and similarly to the hollow-moulded surround to the doorway. C19 plank door with cover strips and strap hinges. 4 slit windows to integral stair turret on north side. South aisle has single trefoil-headed light at west end. 3 buttresses to south-side with offsets that at east end is diagonally set. Two 2-light and 1 three-light pointed arched Perp style windows. All the openings on south and east sides have hoodmoulds with human head corbels. South porch with raised parapet and moulded kneelers. Pointed arched doorway with moulded surround and nookshafts with lipped capitals. Cusped headed niche above with stone carved episcopal figure. Archbraced porch roof with crenellated wall-plate. Pointed arched south doorway with moulded surround and pointed arched plank door with cover strips and strap hinges. Interior: Pointed, double chamfered west tower arch. 3 bay arcade with pointed segmental arches, Pevsner 'B-type' mouldings to the piers and foliated capitals. Decorative arch-braced roof to nave of 7 trusses, with 2 tiers of purlins and crenellated wall-plate. Each alternate truss has plain moulded corbel with carved wooden angels at the base of each brace. Elaborate roof to north aisle with crenellated wall-plates, also 7 trusses, each alternate truss having a king-post with crenellations to the tie-beam with suspended centred pendant and cusped bracing to the soffits of principals and raking struts, corbelled out with cusped bracing to the wall posts. The remaining trusses are similarly decorated but without king- posts. Ceiled waggon style roof to the chancel but slight pointing to the arch. Each panel has diagonal struts with carved foliated designs at each intersection. Pointed chancel arch with moulded intrados supported on piers with 3 engaged shafts with lipped capitals. Pointed segemental arches to either side of chancel, that to south has inner arch supported on nook shafts with floriated capitals. Carved wooden reredos with blind cusped-headed panels with carved wooden symbols in each panel. Decorative wrought iron brackets to communion rails. C19 polygonal pulpit, pews, with blind ogee-arched panels with decorative spandrels to the bench ends. Octagonal bowl and stem to the font with quatrefoil panels to the bowl and cusped- headed panels to the stem. Painted Royal Arms at west end of south aisle, dated 1788. Wall monuments. Chancel north side to Charles Cooke, rector d. 1685. Oval medallion with cherubs heads above, small skull below. 2 monuments on south wall of south aisle, 1 to Thomas Acland of Combe d. 1633, scrolls flanking slate plaque with fleur-de-lis pendant and heraldic shield above, the other to James Acland d. 1655, semi-circular headed plaque with shield above and painted roundels to each side, bust below all with encircling inscriptions. East window stained glass dated 1880. Flag floor to chancel, decorative patterned tiles to chancel.
Date first listed: 25th February 1965.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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