High Hampton

from

Some Old Devon Churches

By J. Stabb

London: Simpkin et al (1908-16)

Page 118

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.

HIGH HAMPTON. Holy Cross. The church [plate 118a] consists of chancel, with priest's door, nave, north aisle, south porch, and west tower with three bells. The belfry screen was erected in commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria [in 1897]. The church has been restored and there is little that is old except the font [plate 118b] which is circular in shape with a band of carving around the top, it has cable moulding and rests on a modern shaft and base. A feature of the church is that the nave is not separated from the aisle by arches as is usually the case, but the roofs rest on a straight beam supported by two granite monoliths which must be of immense weight. The bells were re-hung in 1910.

The registers date from 1653.