Calverleigh Devon
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Calverleigh Devon.  The manor originally gets its name from the Calodelie / Calwoodleigh family who lived here for 14 generations from the reign of King John until that of Henry VII. when its heiress married Roger Arundel younger brother of Sir John Arundell, who succeeded to the Lanherne estate in 1494;   Their only daughter married Pether. Calverleigh when perhaps its name took the modern form.  
It was afterwards in a younger branch of the Southcotts of Indiho.   In 1711 it was the property of Elizabeth, relict of Sir Henry Fane, and heiress of Thomas Southcote of Exeter.   After the death of her grandson, Charles Viscount Fane  it was sold to Joseph Nagle 1813 <a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Mhw88SW480">www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Mhw88SW480</a> who bequeathed it to his nephew Charles Chichester

The church built of local stone rubble in Perpendicular style, consists of 15c chancel &amp; nave, south (Southcott)  aisle, (3 bay - one-bay to the chancel),  south porch, and 14c west tower with 4 bells, the first and fourth dated 1672 and 1790.   
It replaced an earlier church, the first recorded vicar being  Richard Snape in August 12th 1338.
A wall inscription says that the chancel was &quot;scaled, plastered, painted, and paved by Edward Serridge, Parson of Calverleigh, in 1662.  

The south / Southcott aisle contains monuments of the Southcott family, and was originally built between 1337 and 1349, according to some authorities, and probably rebuilt in 16c . 

Greatly restored / rebuilt in 1882 and 1887 when the nave fenestration &amp; roofs were largely replaced probably copying medieval originals, and refurbishment included tiling, a traceried dado and plain choir stalls and benches. 

Inside the walls, except for the north wall, are plastered.  The 19c ceiled wagon roofs have moulded ribs and carved bosses.  However the late 15c / early 16c roof survives over the aisle.
The 3-bay aisle arcade has Tudor arches, piers with corner shafts and good capitals recut in the 1880s showing green men <a href="https://flic.kr/p/anUFhw" rel="noreferrer nofollow">flic.kr/p/anUFhw</a>
Medieval fittings consist of a re-sited probably early 16c rood screen of very unusual design which has been truncated at the base and the present pulpit has been made up from another bay of the same design.    For many years over the chancel screen there was suspended a beam with two rows of vine leaf enrichment and cresting, from its character possibly the remains of an earlier screen, as it seemed quite out of keeping with the screen beneath. The beam has now been removed to the lower arch.
There is also an unusual early 16c tower screen with square-headed openings &amp; crocketed ogee canopies  

Some medieval stained glass fragments survive in the south aisle east window . <a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/23vL82y53y">www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/23vL82y53y</a>  The west window of the aisle has been filled with medieval fragments from Carhais in France assembled by Drake of Exeter in 1887  <a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/y2w178TU36">www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/y2w178TU36</a>

At the east end of the south aisle monuments include a c 1633 wall monument to three generations of the Southcott family with their portraits  <a href="https://flic.kr/p/xMDaxj" rel="noreferrer nofollow">flic.kr/p/xMDaxj</a>
There is a ledger stone there commemorating George Southcott aged 15 who was &quot;sone gropt by death&quot; &quot;through feavers violence and rage&quot;  in 1654  <a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/8oQEigifq4">www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/8oQEigifq4</a>

The belfry was restored and the peal of bells completed by Mr John Wood in 1896 to commemorate the Jubilee of Queen Vicitoria  
The registers date from 1679.

Picture with thanks  = copyright Lewis Clarke CCL <a href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3500789" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3500789</a>
calverleigh church devon