Frithelstock Devon
Looking east down the nave to the chancel
The church was built next to the 13c priory for the families of the Priory retainers and the inhabitants of the village which grew up nearby.
It was enlarged in the 15c and restored c1870.
Built of coursed rubble, it comprises a chancel, nave, west tower south aisle , south chapel / vestry and south porch.
The north wall survives from the 13c lit with early 14c windows
The chancel was rebuilt in the early 14c when the south aisle was added.
The newest part of the church is the curtained off south chapel / vestry which was just completed before the dissolution of the Priory in 1536.
The interior 15c waggon roofs have moulded ribs and floral-carved bosses. three early 14c bays to the west, between the nave and south aisle, have crocketed canopies over image niches,
The late 15c / early 16c bench ends and fronts in choir and south east chapel; are carved with tracery patterns, foliate ribs, heraldry, which include the arms of Hartland Abbey (owner of the Priory) and crowned double-rose of Henry VII, Instruments of the Passion, crown of thorns
The late 17c Jacobean pulpit may have been brought here from another church. - it has reeded pilasters framing blind arches with egg and dart carving to architraves, reset on late 19c base.
- Church of St. Mary & St. Gregory, Frithelstock Devon
Roger Cornfoot CChttps://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7328655L
Frithelstock Devon
Looking east down the nave to the chancel
The church was built next to the 13c priory for the families of the Priory retainers and the inhabitants of the village which grew up nearby.
It was enlarged in the 15c and restored c1870.
Built of coursed rubble, it comprises a chancel, nave, west tower south aisle , south chapel / vestry and south porch.
The north wall survives from the 13c lit with early 14c windows
The chancel was rebuilt in the early 14c when the south aisle was added.
The newest part of the church is the curtained off south chapel / vestry which was just completed before the dissolution of the Priory in 1536.
The interior 15c waggon roofs have moulded ribs and floral-carved bosses. three early 14c bays to the west, between the nave and south aisle, have crocketed canopies over image niches,
The late 15c / early 16c bench ends and fronts in choir and south east chapel; are carved with tracery patterns, foliate ribs, heraldry, which include the arms of Hartland Abbey (owner of the Priory) and crowned double-rose of Henry VII, Instruments of the Passion, crown of thorns
The late 17c Jacobean pulpit may have been brought here from another church. - it has reeded pilasters framing blind arches with egg and dart carving to architraves, reset on late 19c base.
- Church of St. Mary & St. Gregory, Frithelstock Devon
Roger Cornfoot CChttps://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7328655L