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Church of St Paul

A Grade II Listed Building in Chudleigh Knighton, Devon

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.5847 / 50°35'5"N

Longitude: -3.6321 / 3°37'55"W

OS Eastings: 284551

OS Northings: 77383

OS Grid: SX845773

Mapcode National: GBR QP.WGJB

Mapcode Global: FRA 378J.BSN

Plus Code: 9C2RH9M9+V5

Entry Name: Church of St Paul

Listing Date: 3 July 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1309131

English Heritage Legacy ID: 84563

ID on this website: 101309131

Location: St Paul's Church, Chudleigh Knighton, Teignbridge, Devon, TQ13

County: Devon

District: Teignbridge

Civil Parish: Hennock

Built-Up Area: Chudleigh Knighton

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Chudleigh Knighton

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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Description


HENNOCK CHUDLEIGH KNIGHTON
SX 87 NW

5/116 Church of St Paul
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GV II

Parish Church, orignally a chapel of ease. Built 1841-2 by G.G. Scott and W B
Moffat, decorated and fitted by Medley 1846. Flint pebble walls with limestone
ashlar dressings. Slated roofs with stone-coped gables and kneelers. Nave,
chancel, north and south transepts. Bell turret with bell on west gable. Nave has
3 lancet windows each side. West front has 3 stepped lancets. Doorway with 2-
centred arch below it. At either side, is a large limestone cross, set into the
pebbles. The transepts each have 2 lancet windows with a smaller quatrefoil light
above. In the apex of the gable a limestone cross. The south transept, which also
serves as an entrance porch, has a doorway with 2-centred arch. Chancel has a
stepped triple lancet east window, matching that at the west end. In north and
south walls a single lancet. Good simple original interior. Interesting mid C20
glass in east window.
Sources: N Pevsner, South Devon, 1952, p.79. White's Devon, 1850, pp.471-2. Church
accounts, 1846-50 (Devon Record Office, 2922A add./PZ6).


Listing NGR: SX8455177383

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