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© Mr Robin Downes
IoE Number:
86089
Location:
NETHEREXE PARISH CHURCH (DEDICATION UNKNOWN),
NETHER EXE, EAST DEVON, DEVON
Photographer:
Mr Robin Downes
Date Photographed:
03 September 2003
Date listed:
30 June 1961
Date of last amendment:
30 June 1961
Grade
I
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NETHEREXE
SX 99 NW
3/29 Netherexe Parish Church
30.6.61 (Dedication unknown)
- I
Parish church. Late-C15. Restoration of 1890; roof of 1906 by Chancellor & Son of
Chelmsford. Coursed rubble. Nave and chancel in one; south porch; C19 north
vestry opposite porch. North and south walls similar, 3 heavy buttresses with
plinth and 2 set-offs 2 square-headed windows. South door and porch entrance both
with chamfer and hollow moulding and moulded bases. East window framed between 2
buttresses which leave angles clear; 3-light Perpendicular with very weathered
faces as hood-mould terminals. This window may have been reset. West end with
square bellcote (with bell); 2-light west window, Perpendicular with quatrefoil in
head; west doorway identical to the others. Upper courses of wall particularly
rebuilt in 1906. Interior: Norman font, square bowl with scalloped underside,
circular shaft, square base with scalloped top. Trefoil headed piscina in south
sanctuary wall. Tall, elongated, blocked doorway to east of present entrance.
Deep window recesses under chamfered rear arches. Good roof 1906; open rafters,
collars, studs and moulded wall-plate, and 3 crenellated tie beams. Monument: to
Mary Young, d.1771; cartouche with putti heads and heraldic device, surmounted by
obelisk. Marble. Although Devon is rich in late-C15 churches, complete small
chapels of this date are rare. Netherexe church stands by itself in a field, but
was formerly associated with a nearby manor house (now gone).
Source: Pevsner, p210. Devon C19 Churches Project