Description

ROMANSLEIGH ROMANSLEIGH
SS 72 SW
1/50 Church of St Rumon
20.2.67
GV II
Parish church. 1868 by Edward Ashworth, tower of 1887 but using some re-used
earlier material. Coursed and square local rubble, slate roofs with coped verges,
the ridges crested, cruciform finials.
Plan: High Victorian Decorated and Perpendicular style. Nave, chancel, north
vestry, south porch, west tower.
Exterior: 2 stage tower with embattled parapet, stair-turret, buttresses to west
face on bottom stage; 2-light bell-chamber windows and a 2-light west window
Perpendicular style, west doorway. 4 bay nave, Decorated style and Perpendicular
style tracery to north windows, richly carved. Gabled south porch, pointed arch
outer door opening with single-moulding, inside a moulded inner doorway of 2 orders,
unceiled wagon roof. 2 bay chancel, blank on north, with a lean-to vestry, a
square-headed single-light and a 2-light window to the south, trefoiled.
Interior: plastered on flagstone floors; a fitted carpet covering the nave floor,
encaustic tile pavement to chancel; sanctuary with fitted carpet. Nave under 4-
bayed hammer-beam roof, on simple stone corbels; panelled ringing - chamber floor to
the tower; chancel under ceiled wagon roof with big bosses. Tower arch appears to
be early with flat-pointed head, probably reused from an earlier tower, also the
doorway to the stair-turret.
Furniture: High Victorian Gothic fittings including pulpit, pine pews, choir
stalls, cased organ, altar rails and the altar table. Perpendicular style octagonal
font. Small C18 chest. Two C19 wall monuments. 4 mid C19 stained glass windows;
the north and south windows to the east of the nave with robust stained glass of
1953 and 1959 by James Peterson A.R.C.A, of Bideford. Remainder of windows with
simple diamond-paned leaded lights.

Listing NGR: SS7272420593

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26465201

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