Cotleigh, Devon
Church of St Michael, Cotleigh Devon built of local stone, flint rubble with Beerstone &amp; Hamstone detail,   dates from the 15c &amp; early 16c built on a Saxon site of worship.    A list of the Rectors dates from 1292 with John de Fordynton
It was restored &amp; refurbished with a rebuilt chancel &amp; new south porch in 1867 at a time when the lord of the manor was the 2nd Lord Ashburton whose daughter brought the manor on marriage to  William Compton, 5th Marquess of Northampton in 1884 .  (William Bingham Compton 6th Marquess of Northampton sold the estates to pay off his debts in 1919) 
Curiously it is not until the 1867 date that the dedication to St Michael is mentioned, and an old deed of 1292 refers to it as &quot;ecclesia Sancti Petroc aput Cottelegh juxta Honyton’.

It consists of a  nave with lower and narrower chancel.  North aisle not quite full length and a north chapel now used as a vestry, two stage west tower and gabled south porch. 
Much of the exterior has been changed with the gable ends of the porch, nave, chancel and aisle having 19c shaped kneelers and coping and some apex crosses. 
However the nave is probably 15c and retains its original  wagon roof,  the north aisle &amp; tower are probably slightly later, even possibly early 16c 
On the west side of the tower is a Tudor arch doorway below a  3-light window with Perpendicular tracery <a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/8S9f739H8k">www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/8S9f739H8k</a>
The south side of the nave of 3 bays and unbuttressed, with the disused rood stair turret projecting square at the south east end.   (Behind the pulpit is a tiny 2-centred arch doorway to the disused rood stair)
On each side of the porch are Tudor square- headed 3-light windows - there are 2 similar windows on the north side of the aisle and between them a blocked Tudor arch doorway <a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/ZgiPFog2yN">www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/ZgiPFog2yN</a> similar to that in the tower.
Whilst only having a war memorial,  there are a series of painted boards, one dated 1716,  all feature winged cherubs heads. Over the south door one records &quot;The Lawyers Gospell&quot; from Matthew 22.37 and on the north aisle west wall are commandment boards. <a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/8cviX933Mq">www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/8cviX933Mq</a>  Also in the north aisle a benefaction board dated 1826. 

The 1086 Domesday Survey states that &quot;Cotelei&quot; was one  of 797 manors in the area given to Robert ,Count of Mortain, half brother of William the Conqueror.  and at that time there were 17 villagers. 4 smallholders &amp; 1 slave.  There were 8 ploughlands. 2 lord’s plough teams. 6 men’s plough teams., also 8 pigs &amp; 60 sheep,  all worth annually 2 pounds.  The tenant in chief was Richard son of Turolf, who had replaced the 1066 saxon Edmer (Ator).

There was a quite famous brewery here which sadly closed operations in 2021 

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