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Hartland Stoke Stocks
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Hartland, Stoke, Parish Church, St Nectan
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St Nectan: founded on site of collegiate church by Countess Gytha, c.1055 but present building of late c14 Perpendicular
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St Nectan: mostly c14; embattled aisles, replacement windows of 1848; small figure of St Nectan at east face of tower
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St Nectan: misty approach from the east
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St Nectan: c.1360 nave with wagon roof; limestone piers with Catacleuse stone from Cornwall
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St Nectan: c15 screen spanning width of nave & aisles, 45 feet long
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St Nectan: c15 screen with conventional dado & tracery but elaborate cornice & coving
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St Nectan: detail from c15 rood screen; four bands of decoration in cornice, berries in between; decoration of flowers between ribs of coving
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St Nectan: c14 cross-ribbed wagon roof in north chapel; mostly original bosses
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St Nectan: altar reredos, 1931, of saints associated with patrons of ten chapels in the parish; St Nectan, St Clare, St Leonard, St Andrew, St Mary, St John, St James, St Catherine, St Martin & St Wenn
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St Nectan: font, c.1170; stem with cable moulding separated by zig-zag; intersecting arches at bowl; carved heads at corners represent baptised looking down on unbaptised or damned
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St Nectan: detail of font c.1170; faces in corners are the unbaptised
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St Nectan: modern windows depicting St Gytha, the foundress & arms of post reformation families associated with the parish
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St Nectan: modern windows depicting arms of post reformation families associated with the parish
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St Nectan: late c14 tomb chest of Catacleuse stone brought from Hartland Abbey; quatrefoil base, main panels with traceried roundels
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St Nectan: painted & gilded brass of Anne Abbott, 1610
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St Nectan: late c14 figures from the nearby Abbey
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The church of St Nectan, Hartland, Devon.
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Church of St Nectan, Hartland, Cornwall
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Church of St Nectan, Hartland, North Devon