Church of St Rumon is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. Church.
Church of St Rumon
- WRENN ID
- haunted-flagstone-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Rumon, Romansleigh
- OS grid reference
- SS 727 205
- Coordinates
- 50.97064, -3.81409
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Rumon is a parish church built in 1868 by Edward Ashworth, with a tower added in 1887 that incorporates some earlier materials. It is constructed from coursed and square local rubble and features slate roofs with coped verges, crested ridges, and cruciform finials. The church is designed in the High Victorian Decorated and Perpendicular styles and includes a nave, chancel, north vestry, south porch, and west tower.
The exterior showcases a two-stage tower with an embattled parapet, a stair-turret, and buttresses on the west face of the lower stage. It has two-light bell-chamber windows and a two-light west window in the Perpendicular style, along with a west doorway. The nave has four bays with Decorated style and Perpendicular style tracery in the richly carved north windows. The gabled south porch features a pointed arch outer door with a single-moulding and a moulded inner doorway of two orders, leading to an unceiled wagon roof.
Inside, the church has plastered walls and flagstone floors, with a fitted carpet covering the nave and encaustic tile pavement in the chancel, which also has a fitted carpet in the sanctuary. The nave is supported by a four-bayed hammer-beam roof resting on simple stone corbels, and there is a panelled ringing chamber floor in the tower. The chancel features a ceiled wagon roof with large bosses. The tower arch, likely reused from an earlier tower, has a flat-pointed head, as does the doorway to the stair-turret.
The church contains High Victorian Gothic furnishings, including a pulpit, pine pews, choir stalls, a cased organ, altar rails, and an altar table. There is an octagonal font in the Perpendicular style, a small 18th-century chest, and two 19th-century wall monuments. The church has four mid-19th-century stained glass windows, with the north and south windows to the east of the nave featuring robust stained glass from 1953 and 1959 by James Peterson A.R.C.A of Bideford. The remaining windows have simple diamond-paned leaded lights.
Local climate
Church of St Rumon sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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