Nominal: 764 Hz Weight: 1620 lbs Diameter: 43.75" Bell 1 of 6
Founded by Bristol foundry
Dove Bell ID: 4651 Tower ID: 11292 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Molland: St Mary
Diocese of Exeter
Church, 615505
http://www.edgemoorparishes.org.ukOverview
Grid reference: SS 807 283
Mid C15 tower, nave & North aisle; some C12 work in South nave wall; redecorated/refitted early C18.
Visiting and facilities
Building is open for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Footprint of Church buildings: 285 m²
Building Fabric and Features
Tower (component)
15th Century Mid-C15th tower of 3 stages with a Northeast turret. Tower with chamfered plinth, diagonal buttresses with chamfered offsets, string courses, parapet string with carved gargoyles at corners, and battlemented parapet with chamfered coping. Belfry openings of 2 louvred cinquefoil-headed lights with pierced quatrefoils in tympanum and chamfered reveals. South side of tower with trefoil-headed window to second stage and empty niche to first stage with weathered cusping; west window to second stage of 3 cinquefoil-headed lights, panelled tracery with trefoiled heads, hollow-chamfered reveals and string course carried over as hoodmould. Old nail-studded boarded west door with continuously- moulded arch.
Historical Notes
1425 - 1475
Period Qualifier: 2
Belfry
15th Century Belfry openings to tower - of 2 louvred cinquefoil-headed lights with pierced quatrefoils in tympanum and chamfered reveals.
Historical Notes
1425 - 1525
Period Qualifier: 2
Buttress
15th Century Tower - diagonal buttresses with chamfered offsets
Historical Notes
1425 - 1475
Period Qualifier: 2
Turret
15th Century Northeast half-octagonal stair turret to north-east consisting of square base with splays at first string-course level and projecting above tower parapet with separate battlemented parapet and gilded weathervane.
Historical Notes
1425 - 1475
Period Qualifier: 2
Gargoyle
15th Century Gargoyles to tower
Historical Notes
1425 - 1475
Period Qualifier: 2
Aisle
16th Century Mid C15th North aisle of 4-bays, remodelled C16th East wall of north aisle rebuilt or refaced in 1772 (datestone).
Historical Notes
1425 - 1475
Period Qualifier: 2
1500 - 1599
Period Qualifier: 1
Aisle remodelled C16th
1772 - 1772
Period Qualifier: 1
East wall of north aisle rebuilt/refaced
1902 - 1902
Period Qualifier: 1
Aisle eaves raised
Chapel (component)
16th Century
Historical Notes
1500 - 1599
Period Qualifier: 2
Arcade
16th Century Early C16 north aisle arcade of 4-bays, made of Beer stone. Pevsner type-B piers with moulded bases, carved foliated capitals (each one different) and moulded arches. Canon Clarke notes that he arcade was called by Dr. Eeles ‘the usual rich late Devonshire type’, with foliage wrapped round the capitals.
Historical Notes
1500 - 1500
Period Qualifier: 2
Church
15th Century C15 tower, nave and north aisle. South-east part of nave south wall probably C12th
Historical Notes
1500 - 1599
Period Qualifier: 1
North aisle remodelled and chapel added. Arcade C16th also
1600 - 1699
Period Qualifier: 1
Porch added
1772 - 1772
Period Qualifier: 1
East wall of north aisle rebuilt or refaced (datestone)
1935 - 1939
Period Qualifier: 1
Roofs and windows restored by Mr W.A. Forsyth
1902 - 1902
Period Qualifier: 1
Church repaired - South and east walls of chancel refaced or rebuilt and aisle eaves raised
1700 - 1750
Period Qualifier: 1
Interior redecorated and refitted
1100 - 1199
Period Qualifier: 2
South-east part of nave south wall (coursed rubble masonry to left of porch)
Porch
17th Century South porch - gabled C17th
Historical Notes
1600 - 1699
Period Qualifier: 2
Roof
Modern Roofs and windows restored in 1935-9, by Mr W.A. Forsyth
Historical Notes
1935 - 1939
Period Qualifier: 1
Chancel
Victorian/Pre WWI 2-bay chancel. The South and East chancel walls were largely reconstructed later
Historical Notes
1902 - 1902
Period Qualifier: 1
Nave
15th Century Nave - pair of C15th windows with 3 cinquefoil-headed lights each
Historical Notes
1425 - 1475
Period Qualifier: 2
Arch
15th Century C15th triple-chamfered tower arch, the inner 2 chamfers dying into responds and the outer stilted and continuous
Historical Notes
1425 - 1475
Period Qualifier: 2
Building Materials
Sandstone
15th Century
Limestone
Limestone ashlar dressings
Ashlar
Limestone ashlar dressings
Basalt
15th Century
Posbury Stone
Bath Stone
15th Century
Bath Stone
Beer Stone
15th Century
Beer Stone
Sandstone
15th Century
Medium- Grained Bude Sandstone
Slate
15th Century
Crackington Slate
Slate
15th Century
Slate
Slate
Modern Gable-ended Welsh-slate roofs
Historical Notes
1935 - 1939
Period Qualifier: 2
Encaustic Tile
19th Century C19th encaustic tiles in chancel
Interior
Fixtures and fittings
Clock
19th Century Clock to second stage of tower with weathered gilded arms and letters and probably C19th hoodmould with scrolled stops.
Historical Notes
1800 - 1899
Period Qualifier: 2
Window
Modern Roofs and windows restored in 1935-9, by Mr W.A. Forsyth
Historical Notes
1935 - 1939
Period Qualifier: 1
Lancet Window
19th Century C19th chamfered trefoil-headed lancets in chancel
Historical Notes
1800 - 1899
Period Qualifier: 2
Priests Door
19th Century C19th Tudor-arched priest's doorway with nail-studded boarded door
Historical Notes
1800 - 1899
Period Qualifier: 2
Window
15th Century C15th east window of 3 ogee cinquefoil-headed lights with panelled tracery and hoodmould
Historical Notes
1400 - 1499
Period Qualifier: 2
Stained Glass (window)
Modern Small window signed by Cooper Abbs
Box Pew
18th Century C18th box pews. C18 box pews with raised and fielded panels (2 panels) high, beaded corners and edges of doors etc., H-hinges and moulded rails; interiors with shaped legs and angled book rests. Larger pews in chancel, that to north with inlaid heraldic shield on door, moulded top rail ramped up to corners, and seats inside with ovolo-moulded edges and shaped solid legs
Historical Notes
1700 - 1799
Period Qualifier: 2
Pulpit
18th Century 3-decker pulpit in the aisle with domed canopy
Historical Notes
1700 - 1799
Period Qualifier: 2
Decorative Features
18th Century C18th plastered tympanum Royal Arms in square frame and inscription in lunette over: "1808 I. Mogridge Churchwarden. Rowland's Painter's"
Historical Notes
1808 - 1808
Period Qualifier: 2
Rail
19th Century Gates to the chancel (1808).
Font (component)
Medieval Norman font. C12th with square base, stumpy circular stem, lead-lined square bowl with scalloped sides, and C20 wooden cover
Historical Notes
1100 - 1199
Period Qualifier: 2
1900 - 1999
Period Qualifier: 1
Cover
Tomb (component)
15th Century Stone chest probably assembled from parts of a C15 chest tomb
Historical Notes
1400 - 1499
Period Qualifier: 2
Commemorative Object
17th Century Monument to Daniel Berry, B.D., Minister (‘sequestered & persecuted’). Large complex wall monument also on north wall of chancel, erected 1664 and to David Berry "minister of this church died 1653/4". The monument is of various marbles and retains some old colouring retouched. Convex oval inscription in scrolled and husked frame. The monument breaks forward in 3 planes. To either side Corinthian columns supporting a pulvinated frieze and segmental pediment which contains an achievement of arms. Surmounting all, a large urn with winged infants on either side, one with cherub corbel below and swags of fruit and flowers on either side.
Historical Notes
1664 - 1664
Period Qualifier: 2
Commemorative Object
C17th-C18th Century Monuments to the Courtenay family. North aisle, North wall: Baroque wall monument in limestone with ancient colouring. Rectangular bolection-moulded frame containing inscription to "the Right Worshipful John Courtenay" died 1660 and his son John died 1684. To either side marble Corinthian columns supporting an entablature. On top a central armorial cartouche surmounted by scrolled pediment, feathers and skulls with mourning angels and urns. On either side the monument has husked buttress scrolls and below, between the brackets which support the shelf, there is a subsidiary but integral pendant inscription on a convex oval with foliated cartouche on a small lion's mask corbel to Margaret, John Courtenay's wife, who died 1684. Cherubs on the brackets below the momument and centrally in the frieze. . John C., 1693. John, 1732, with a relief of the Resurrection under (with rails round).
Historical Notes
1660 - 1732
Period Qualifier: 2
Screen
20th Century Made-up tower screen (dedicated in 1977) incorporating pair of C18 doors of 3 raised and fielded panels each, under round arch, and panelled sides made up from former box-pew doors (some box-pews have been removed from the west end at some time)
Historical Notes
1977 - 1977
Period Qualifier: 2
Gallery (ecclesiastical)
18th Century C18th west gallery above with narrow turned balusters and beaded square top rail with wrought-iron spikes
Historical Notes
1700 - 1799
Period Qualifier: 2
Plaque (component)
18th Century C18th benefactors' boards below tower
Historical Notes
1700 - 1799
Period Qualifier: 2
Organ (component)
19th Century Organ of 1877 at west end of aisle, presented by James Quartly of West Molland
Historical Notes
1877 - 1877
Period Qualifier: 2
Stained Glass (window)
19th Century C19th memorial windows to William Rossiter esq and his wife, of South Molton
Historical Notes
1800 - 1899
Period Qualifier: 2
Commemorative Object
18th Century Wall tablet of finely-engraved pale grey limestone. Inscriptions with arms below all in simple veined marble frame, to Elizabeth Shapcoate died 1700
Historical Notes
1700 - 1700
Period Qualifier: 2
Commemorative Object
19th Century Neo-classical round headed wall tablet in grey and white marble to Frances and William Dovell who died in the wreck of the Adelaide in 1850. In the tympanumn a relief of a shipwreck. By J. Thomas, Bristol
Historical Notes
1850 - 1850
Period Qualifier: 2
Commemorative Object
19th Century Neo-classical wall tablet of grey and white marble to Henry Quartly 1840. Timber wall tablet in shaped and lugged frame surmounted by 3 urns with cherub in the shaped head. Retains old colours. To Henry Quartly died 1810 and Margaret Quartly died 1824
Historical Notes
1810 - 1840
Period Qualifier: 2
Commemorative Object
19th Century Neo-classical wall table of grey and white marble to Mary Jane Ronite died 1832 and Lucy Ronite died 1838
Historical Notes
1832 - 1838
Period Qualifier: 2
Bells
Nominal: 1284 Hz Weight: 482 lbs Diameter: 27.13" Bell 2 of 6
Founded by John Taylor & Co 1964
Dove Bell ID: 31731 Tower ID: 11292 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Nominal: 1144 Hz Weight: 523 lbs Diameter: 29.38" Bell 3 of 6
Founded by Mears & Stainbank 1908
Dove Bell ID: 31732 Tower ID: 11292 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Nominal: 1018 Hz Weight: 764 lbs Diameter: 32.13" Bell 4 of 6
Founded by William Preston 1595
Dove Bell ID: 31733 Tower ID: 11292 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Nominal: 962 Hz Weight: 840 lbs Diameter: 33.63" Bell 5 of 6
Founded by John Taylor & Co 1964
Dove Bell ID: 31734 Tower ID: 11292 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Nominal: 856 Hz Weight: 1023 lbs Diameter: 37.5" Bell 6 of 6
Founded by Thomas I Wroth 1709
Dove Bell ID: 31735 Tower ID: 11292 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Churchyard
Grid reference: SS 807 283
Burial and War Grave Information
The church/building is consecrated.
The churchyard has been used for burial.
The churchyard is used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has war graves.
National Heritage record for England designations
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.
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'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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