F♯
Diameter: 21.88" Bell 1 of 3
Founded by Unidentified (blank)
Dove Bell ID: 61995 Tower ID: 24609 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
West Ogwell
Overview
Grid reference: SX 818 700
The plan, with chancel almost as long as the nave and small square transepts, is characteristic of the time, as is the lack of any buttressing. The latter feature makes the exterior severely plain, particularly in the case of the west tower.
Visiting and facilities
Building is closed for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
Aisleless, cruciform building with west tower; the nave has a small north vestry and south porch.
Description of Archaeology and History
The earliest period of building can be dated to the early 14th Century. The south porch looks to be seventeenth-century and the north vestry nineteenth-century.
Exterior Description
The plan, with chancel almost as long as the nave and small square transepts, is characteristic of the time, as is the lack of any buttressing. The latter feature makes the exterior severely plain, particularly in the case of the west tower.
The tower is rectangular, wider from north to south than from east to west. It stands on a plinth and is divided externally into two storeys by an unmoulded projecting band of stone which on the east side rises in a point above the ridge of the nave roof. The upper storey is distinctly. taller than the lower, and more noticeably battered. In the west face is a low round-headed doorway under a coarse three-light window with intersecting tracery. The stair is contained within the rectangle of the tower at the south west corner, only indicated externally by tiny slits for windows.
The north wall of the nave is made less tall by the high ground level on this side of the building, and is in any case almost completely obscured by the vestry with its Y-traceried west window executed in wood. The north transept has a north window set high in the wall with three trefoiled lights and intersecting tracery; the east window of the transept is similar but in paler stone. The north chancel wall has a single small window with a hollow moulding and Y tracery. The east window with three lights and cusped intersecting tracery preserves its stanchions and saddlebars.
The south transept, which is the most evident part of the building to the approaching visitor, has a later window of Perpendicular style with three cinquef iled lights and panel tracery.
The south transept, which is the most evident part of the building to the approaching visitor, has a later window of Perpendicular style with three cinquefoiled lights and panel tracery. The south window is virtually identical.
On the south side of the nave is a small porch with a round-headed outer arch which may be Seventeenth-century; on the gable is a crudely carved stone cross. The side walls have no windows, but wooden benches stand on each side on the stone flagged floor.
Interior
Interior Description
The early date of the church is perhaps even more evident inside the building than outside, for most of the arches are round. This includes the tall narrow arch to the tower space and there the arches to the transepts. In the lower part of the tower arch is a wooden screen with a trefoil-headed spy hole cut in the wood. The walls are all plastered and whitewashed and the of is ceiled with a plaster barrel-vault divided into rectangular panels by moulded struts. The simple architecture is complemented by the box pews which were put in the church in 1823.
Although the building is important as an early example of a cruciform plan, the emphasis in the interior is entirely longitudinal. The barrel vault runs through from east to west with only a slight interruption by a round chancel arch which dies into the side walls, and the transepts are set aside almost as separate rooms within small arches which look round but are in fact just pointed.
The chancel is structurally undivided from the nave save by an almost unnoticeable arch, and the stone paving on the floor runs through from one to the other. In front of the altar is a step, and set in the floor here are four good ledger slabs.
Fixtures and fittings
Rail
The communion rails have a gently bowed centre, with short straight ends. They are of oak, plain with thin uprights and curved capping; two original long iron struts for fixing and the original bolt remain.
Pulpit
17th Century
The pulpit is of oak, octagonal (with a later base of deal). It is seventeenth-century with some chip-carved borders, of good refined design; it shows signs of having been incorporated in some larger assembly.
Table
c.1800
An oak tripod table with round top
Font (object)
The font is of stone, a plain pillar with coarse roll mouldings at the head and foot. The bowl is oval. Dating is difficult - it might be seventeenth century or eighteenth-century, but not presumably earlier or later.
Table
17th Century
The south transept has a small communion table, seventeenth-century, with turned legs and a new top.
Bells
E
Diameter: 24.38" Bell 2 of 3
Founded by Exeter foundry
Dove Bell ID: 61996 Tower ID: 24609 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
D♯
Weight: 448 lbs Diameter: 27.5" Bell 3 of 3
Founded by Exeter foundry
Dove Bell ID: 61997 Tower ID: 24609 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Churchyard
Grid reference: SX 818 700
Burial and War Grave Information
It is unknown whether the building is consecrated.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has been used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has war graves.
National Heritage record for England designations
There are no records of National Heritage assets within the curtilage of this site.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
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There are no records of Ancient, Veteran or Notable Trees within the curtilage of this site.
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | No |
| Solar Thermal Panels | No |
| Biomass | No |
| Wind Turbine | No |
| Air Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ev Charging | No |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
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