Ugborough Church of St Peter Basics
Listed building grade 1
Regularly open
Address
Church of St Peter
Ugborough
Ivybridge
Devon
PL21 0NT
Geographical coordinates
50°23’11.1″N 3°51’42.2″W (enter these in your smartphone navigator)
Devonchurchland says…
A large church in what was a major village but now quiet and peaceful.
It has a wonderfully tall tower, rebuilt somewhat after a lightning strike in the 19th century.
Inside, the pretty stonework on the 14th century traces is the first the first thing to catch the eye, with their very fine use of space as well.
The rood screen has been much dismantled, but what remains is very good indeed, with all the wainscoting paintings surviving and some quality carving on the aisle bits. The parclose is also very good.
There are two fine fonts, one Victorian and one Norman, both worth a good long look.
The North aisle medieval roof bosses are fantastic, a superb collection.
The Victorian stained glass is another enchantment.
All in all, a once major church that still retains a lot of the medieval and well worth time spent.
Outline
PLAN
- Nave
- Chancel
- North and south transepts
- North and South Aisles
- West Tower
- Vestry
AGE
- Early C14 (dedicated in 1311 and 1323)
- C15 north and south aisles
- Arcades are C14
- C15 north and south chancel chapels
- North vestry and 2-storeyed north porch
- West tower completed in early C16
- Tower rebuilt after lightning struck in 1872
- When church was restored by Ashworth
BUILT FROM
- Granite ashlar and coursed rubble
- Rendered chancel
- Slate roofs
Exterior
WEST TOWER
- Very tall (94 ft)
- 3 stages
- Ashlar
- Setback buttresses with set-offs
- Battlements
- Octagonal pinnacles
- Rising from the bottom of the bell style
- On corbels with carved angels
- 3-light bell-openings
- 4-light perpendicular west window
- Without hood mould
- Moulded west doorway
NORTH AISLE
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- Coursed rubble with corbelled parapet
- Perpendicular 4-light windows
- Some replaced with Y-tracery
- Shallow buttresses with set-offs
SOUTH AISLE
- Granite ashlar with embattled parapet
- Gargoyles
- Depressed arch perpendicular windows
- Some replaced with Y-tracery
- Shallow buttresses with set-offs
NORTH AND SOUTH CHAPELS
- Ashlar with embattled parapets
- Shallow buttresses with set-offs
- 4-light perpendicular windows
- Priest doorway in buttress on south side of south chapel
- With gable over
NORTH AND SOUTH TRANSEPTS
- 4-light perpendicular windows
NORTH VESTRY
- In chancel chapel angle
- Ashlar with embattled parapet
- Canted bay window with 4-centred arch lights
SOUTH PORCH
- Built of ashlar.
- Small
- Chamfered 2-centred arch
- Sundial above
NORTH PORCH
- 2-storeyed
- Corbelled battlements
- Stair turret in angle with aisle
- Inner doorway has fleurons in the arch
- Hood mould with head steps
- C18 panelled inner and outer doors
- Latter with date 1731
CHANCEL
- C19 5-light perpendicular east window
Interior
VARIOUS
- 6-bay north and south arcades
- Unusual plain octagonal piers
- With heeled corbel capitals
- Under the chamfers of the 2-centred arches
- Crossing arches and 2 arches of the chapels are C15
- 4-centred with monolithic moulded granite piers
- With carved capitals
- Double chamfered tower arch
- On polygonal piers
- Piscina in south chapel
- With unmoulded 2-centred arch
- Late C19 reredos
- C19 pews
SCREENS
- Early C16 rood screen
- Much rebuilt
- Reduced in height across chancel
- Traceried wainscot with 32 painted panels across width of church
- Aisle sections have coving missing
- The carving from the cornice has been applied to the spandrels
- Parclose screen are less restored
- Screen under the tower arch appears to be C18
ROOFS
- Plastered vaulted nave roof
- North aisle roof is flat
- With moulded ribs, diagonals and large carved bosses
- Possibly made up front parts of a wagon roof
- Transept roofs are late C19 arch-braced collar trusses
- South aisle roof is C20
FONTS
- C17 octagonal carved stone font
- C12 font with hemispherical bowl
- Most of the carving has been cut off
- Short section remains
- With sort of palmettes and zigzag frieze below
- Painted C20 wooden font cover
- Another font of late C19 date
MONUMENTS
- In chancel
- Richard Fownes 1680
- Honar Edgcombe 1706
- George Legassicke 1789
- On floor of chancel
- Medieval Tomb slab
- In north transept
- Thomas and John King 1792 and 1795
- Richard King 1811
- Small brass depicting a woman,
- Found in 1862
- Reset in frame on wall.
- North arcade of nave
- Thomas Williams 1630
Other information
Standing on a smaller earlier, earthwork
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