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Summary

Parish church, possibly 13th or 14th century core with 15th century alterations and restoration of the 1830s and1840s.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II*) 1333760: CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST GILES

Other References/Statuses

• Church of England HER: 5011
• Old DCC SMR Ref: ST10SW/5
• Old Listed Building Ref (II*): 87099

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• PARISH CHURCH (XIII to XIX - 1201 AD to 1900 AD (Between))

Full description

CHAPPLE, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV132141.

Three medieval bells noted. Diameters and inscriptions given (chapple).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV135909.

Hoskins, w. G. /devon(1954)/354.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV135910.

Whitley, h. M. /tda/42(1910)468-469/visitations of devonshire churches.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV135911.

Chapple, w. E. P.(ed)/tda/55(1923)113/1st report of the medieval bell committee.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV135912.

Tapley-soper, h. /dcnq/23(1947-1949)191-192/"buckerell:the church of st. Mary and st. Giles".

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV135913.

Doe/hhr:buckerell/(-/-/1988)provisional list.

Whitley, H. M., Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV23372.

Episcopal visitation in july 1330, found the fabric of the church in poor state of repair (whitley).

Tapley-Soper, H., Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV23447.

A newly published booklet on the parish of buckerell and its church is reviewed (tapley-soper).

Department of Environment, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV325968.

Church of st. Mary and st. Giles. The cruciform plan suggests a c13 or c14 core, the church is said to have been dedicated in 1319, c15 alterations, restoration of the 1830s and 1840s, reseating of 1906 by r. W. Sampson of sidmouth. Rendered stone, slate roofs. Chancel, nave, west tower, north and south transept, se vestry. Date of 1838 on south transept presumably refers to restoration, vestry presumably also late 1830s. See doe list for full details.(doe).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV335.

St. Mary and st. Giles, parish church.15th century transepts, north and south plastered all over externally, according to a stone in the vestry completed 1403. Credence in the chancel bears the same date. Fine chancel screen of unusual type was brought from elsewhere and fitted here; the groining is perfect on both sides; cornices are good; fitted with 18th century box pews, probably inserted in 1773, west gallery of the same date; sheaf pew in the north transept is a monument by john bacon r. A (1792) to samuel graces, admiral of the white, who lived at hembury fort; elizabethan chalice (hoskins).

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