Sherford

from

Some Old Devon Churches

By J. Stabb

London: Simpkin et al (1908-16)

Page 205

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.

SHERFORD. St. Martin. The church is Perpendicular, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch, and embattled west tower with five bells.

The rood screen is fine [plate 205], of the Dartmouth type, the groining is gone, but there is some good detail. The lower panels have paintings of Apostles and saints, and there are remains of ancient colour. There are Perpendicular parclose screens. The pulpit is evidently made of portions of the screen. In the chancel, there is a fine trefoil headed piscina.

The registers date from 1713.