Burrington Devon
Detail east walls of the south aisle &amp; chancel with north tower behind 

Church of the Holy Trinity, Burrington Devon consists of a chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch, and north embattled tower which holds 6 bells.   It dates from c1150, probably replacing an earlier Saxon building of  just a nave and chancel.   The three stage tower with polygonal south-west stair turret was added c 1250 on the north side -  an interesting transeptal position shared with several other Devon churches.
 
Apart from the 12c Norman front,  <a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/5T9f3zd218">www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/5T9f3zd218</a> the earliest surviving features are the 13c base to the tower and north wall of the nave and possibly the chancel. The rest of the nave and chancel were rebuilt c 1450 when the south aisle was added with its granite arcade and large Perpendicular windows and south porch, creating the building we see today .  The porch is very high reaching and merging with the embattled nave roofline.  <a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/AZ2m50zRSP">www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/AZ2m50zRSP</a>

Over the nave is a late 15c wagon roof decorated with carved Tudor bosses, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/31N4D67751">www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/31N4D67751</a> while over the south aisle the roof beams terminate in a series of 36 carved wooden angels holding shields.  <a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/PKvDWak1B6">www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/PKvDWak1B6</a>
The early 16c Tudor screen is of the most interest, now being painted sky-blue, with the carving in the spaces between the ribs of the groining picked out in gilt and colour. The groining and cornices are complete.   The nine ribs to each shaft of the groining give a wide and fanlike effect.   It has Tudor symbols including Katherine of Aragon's pomegranate and red &amp; white roses.  <a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/8HSQRA6wv8">www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/8HSQRA6wv8</a>
Carvings of Green Men can be found throughout the church, including one above the south door  . The door itself is marked with musket holes, believed to have been fired by Parliamentary soldiers during the 17c Civil War.  <a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/52Vg5183x6">www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/52Vg5183x6</a>
Samuel Davis, vicar here in the 19c, was married secondly to Elizabeth Blackmore , half-sister of writer RD Blackmore, author of the popular novel Lorna Doone.
The church was restored in 1869 by Haywood. Rand when the chancel roof was replaced and new windows were put in the nave 

The registers date: baptisms, 1601; marriages, 1601; burials, 1592.

In the graveyard near the tower is a poignant memorial to five children of the Woolway family who died within six days of each other from diphtheria.

Picture with thanks - copyright Michael Garlick CCL <a href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6872167" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6872167</a>
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