Church of St Mary, Sampford Spiney

• Grade: I
• Date: late 13th or early 14th century origin; extended early to mid 16th century; chancel late 19th century
• Material: slatestone and granite, granite ashlar tower
• Historic England list entry: 1326222

St Mary's at Sampford Spiney has a nave and north transept of the late 13th or early 14th century. In the early to mid 16th century it gained the tower, south aisle and porch, and the chancel and north vestry are late 19th century. The three-stage granite tower has crocketed pinnacles, and a niche on its south side carries a raised letter M.

The north transept keeps an early 14th-century window and medieval encaustic tiles set in its floor, with a tomb recess on the north wall. The octagonal granite font is 14th century. Two early 18th-century hatchments with armorial bearings hang in the nave and south aisle, and there is a slate monument of 1775 to the Rev Samuel Forster.

Not the same church as St Mary, Walkhampton or Mary Tavy.

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