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Rackenford Church of All Saints Basics

Description
Gallery
Basics
Church Chancel Exterior Render Priest Door Windows 13th Century Medieval Rackenford

Listed building grade 1

Regularly open

Address
Church of All Saints
Rackenford
Tiverton
EX16 8DT

Geographical coordinates

50°57’06.5″N 3°38’15.0″W (enter these in your smartphone navigator)

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Devonchurchland says…

A quiet church in a very rural parish, the outside is a combination of lime-washed render and Devon red stone it it is a grand sight. Very charming.

Inside the roof has wooden medieval angels on the sides and some good foliage roofbosses.

The tower arch is quite a sight too, very tall, unusual for this size of church.

The chancel could be from the 13th century and is a beautifully simple space. Very nice indeed.

There is a very novel wooden wall memorial from 1941 down near the tower with a design very much of its time. Well worth a look.

A simple medieval font and some very nice 19th century stained cap things off, and make this a sweet church to spend some time in.

Outline

PLAN

  • West tower
  • Nave
  • North aisle
  • Chancel

AGE

  • Possibly C13 fabric to chancel
  • Nave rebuilt in late C15 or early C16
  • North aisle and west tower added then too
  • South wall of nave rebuilt 1827.
  • Restoration of 1900

BUILT FROM

  • Random stone rubble
  • Entirely rendered
  • Except for west tower.
  • Slate roofs

Exterior

WEST TOWER

  • 3 stages
  • Diagonal buttresses
  • North-east stair turret
  • Low embattled parapet
  • 2-light pointed arched bell-openings to each face
  • Fenestration mainly of 1900 restoration, Perpendicular style
  • West window of 3 lights
  • Pointed arched doorway

NAVE

  • 3 light and single light window
  • Priest’s door has single light windows to each side
  • That to left ogee-headed
  • That to right cusped headed
  • Both with iron stanchions and saddle bars

CHANCEL & NORTH AISLE

  • 3-light windows to east end of chancel and north aisle
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Interior

NAVE & AISLE

  • Continuous north arcade of 4 bays
    • Piers of Pevsner ‘A’ type
    • Standard capitals with abstract ornamentation
  • Ceiled wagon-roofs to nave and north aisles
  • That to nave is particularly fine
  • Every alternate rib supported by angel figures standing on corbels
  • Large carved bosses at the intersections
  • C19 nave seating

CHANCEL

  • Plastered barrel vault with moulded plaster cornice
  • C18 communion rails
  • With alternating barley twist and straight turned balusters
  • Large octagonal Perpendicular font with tracery motifs

Other information

A large rural parish

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