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Burrington

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Some Old Devon Churches

By J. Stabb

London: Simpkin et al (1908-16)

Page 47

Transcribed and edited by Dr Roger Peters

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Prepared by Michael Steer

Between 1908 and 1916, John Stabb, an ecclesiologist and photographer who lived in Torquay, published three volumes of Some Old Devon Churches and one of Devon Church Antiquities. A projected second volume of the latter, regarded by Stabb himself as a complement to the former, did not materialize because of his untimely death on August 2nd 1917, aged 52. Collectively, Stabb's four volumes present descriptions of 261 Devon churches and their antiquities.

BURRINGTON. Holy Trinity. The church consists of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch, and embattled tower on the north side, containing six bells.

There is nothing in the church of much interest with the exception of the screen [plate 47], but this is very fine in construction, though it is not improved by being painted sky-blue, and the carving in the spaces between the ribs of the groining picked out in gilt and colours. The groining and cornices are complete. The nine ribs to each shaft of the groining give a wide and fanlike effect. The arcades are wide and low, with the four centred heads; the tracery is of Perpendicular character, with a central mullion running into the apex, as at Swymbridge, Atherington, etc.

The church was restored in 1869, and has an open oak roof supported by solid monoliths of granite.

The registers date: baptisms, 1601; marriages, 1601; burials, 1592.