Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries, Vol 7 A Quarterly Journal Devoted to the Local History, Biography and Antiquities of the Counties of Devon and 1912 to October 1913 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries, Vol. 7: A Quarterly Journal Devoted to the Local History, Biography and Antiquities of the Counties of Devon and Cornwall; From January 1912 to October 1913

By this plan it is therefore clear that the surviving architectural record begins with the tower and a short nave, the latter having been subsequently altered, but the former being as we now see it, rather late Norman work (twelfth century), With the exception of the top stage of the circular stair turret, and some of the lights in the belfry-stage, and the south window in the ground stage. But, in the lower part of its walls, on the inside is some masonry pronounced to be of much earlier date, and distinctly pre-conquest in character.* Therefore, we may reasonably conclude that the original church standing On this site was of pre-conquest date, and very possibly included a tower of which this masonry is a portion; but as to the form and size of the rest of the church there is now so little clue that it cannot appear on our plan even in the conjectural dotted line. Probably it was a small, rectangular, aisle-less building with perhaps a low central tower; and the desire for a larger and more important church, when the great wave of Norman church-building was passing over the country, produced in this remote and secluded western Combe-oi - many-branches the anglo-norman church which is the earliest to be represented on our plan.

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