Church of St John the Baptist and the Seven Maccabees

A Grade II* Listed Building in Cookbury, Devon

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  St John & the Seven Maccabees: largely Norman church of which most of the work survives; remodelled c14; redundant in 1982 but reopened in 1987 as a Chapel of Ease

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  St John & the Seven Maccabees: narrow west tower with pyramid roof; additional west transept

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  St John & the Seven Maccabees: interior with Perpendicular north arcade of granite piers & depressed arches; Victorian screen of 1870 in Early English style

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  St John & the Seven Maccabees: Perpendicular south transept known as the Dunsland aisle

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  St John & the Seven Maccabees: three light east window with trefoil heads, c.1300; glass is modern (by Beer of Exeter)

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  St John & the Seven Maccabees: altar made up of Perpendicular panels

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  St John & the Seven Maccabees: eagle lectern next to Jacobean pulpit; the base from the early screen, the bird itself is Victorian

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  St John & the Seven Maccabees: medieval bench end

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  St John & the Seven Maccabees: c17 floor tiles from Fremington clay of Barnstaple designs