Church Of St Catherine

TIVERTON

SS91SW WITHLEIGH 848-1/4/343 Church of St Catherine 18/06/88

GV II

Parish church. 1846 by John Hayward of Exeter. Local rubble walls with freestone dressings; steep dry slate roofs with coped gables with moulded kneelers; stone bellcote with single bell, over left-hand gable. STYLE: Middle Pointed style. PLAN: chancel with north vestry and nave with south porch. MATERIALS: windows have trefoil-headed lights, the 2-light nave windows and the 4-light chancel window with quatrefoil tracery, multiple light windows with hoodmoulds with varied head stops. 4-bay nave; 1-bay chancel with weathered buttresses dividing bays. Porch (2nd bay) has moulded pointed-arched doorway; inner doorway with pair of original ledged and braced oak doors. INTERIOR: has arch-braced roof structure, now partly hidden by later ceiling; plastered walls with dressed stone reararches. FITTINGS: include pine pews with panelled and moulded square ends; round freestone font with traceried bowl carried on centre pier and 4 polished stone shafts; octagonal pulpit with V-jointed boards, and choir stall with Gothic tracery. HISTORY: John Hayward of Exeter was the leading local practitioner of Gothic Revival church building in the County of Devon from the 1840s to the 1860s. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: 1989-: 915).

Listing NGR: SS9088512648