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Whitchurch, Tavistock, Devon
Grid ref: SX 4929 7269
Main image: Photo: Sarah Smith, Wikimedia Commons
St Andrew's on Church Hill, Whitchurch, has a Norman south doorway. Historic England lists a Norman south door, a chancel of about 1300, and a west tower, nave, south transept and north aisle of the 15th century. The chancel aisles and south porch are 19th century. It is built of granite with a slate roof; the three-stage tower has a crenellated parapet and an octagonal stair turret.
The best-recorded fittings are two monuments: one in the Easter Sepulchre recess to Paschaw Allyn (died 1626), with a long row of kneeling children on a slate plate, and one to Francis Pengelly (died 1722) by Weston, showing the Resurrection of the Dead.
Not the same church as St Andrew, Ashburton, Buckland Monachorum or Moretonhampstead.
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