Church Of St Rumon

ROMANSLEIGH ROMANSLEIGH SS 72 SW 1/50 Church of St Rumon 20.2.67 GV II Parish church. 1868 by Edward Ashworth, tower of 1887 but using some re-used earlier material. Coursed and square local rubble, slate roofs with coped verges, the ridges crested, cruciform finials. Plan: High Victorian Decorated and Perpendicular style. Nave, chancel, north vestry, south porch, west tower. Exterior: 2 stage tower with embattled parapet, stair-turret, buttresses to west face on bottom stage; 2-light bell-chamber windows and a 2-light west window Perpendicular style, west doorway. 4 bay nave, Decorated style and Perpendicular style tracery to north windows, richly carved. Gabled south porch, pointed arch outer door opening with single-moulding, inside a moulded inner doorway of 2 orders, unceiled wagon roof. 2 bay chancel, blank on north, with a lean-to vestry, a square-headed single-light and a 2-light window to the south, trefoiled. Interior: plastered on flagstone floors; a fitted carpet covering the nave floor, encaustic tile pavement to chancel; sanctuary with fitted carpet. Nave under 4- bayed hammer-beam roof, on simple stone corbels; panelled ringing - chamber floor to the tower; chancel under ceiled wagon roof with big bosses. Tower arch appears to be early with flat-pointed head, probably reused from an earlier tower, also the doorway to the stair-turret. Furniture: High Victorian Gothic fittings including pulpit, pine pews, choir stalls, cased organ, altar rails and the altar table. Perpendicular style octagonal font. Small C18 chest. Two C19 wall monuments. 4 mid C19 stained glass windows; the north and south windows to the east of the nave with robust stained glass of 1953 and 1959 by James Peterson A.R.C.A, of Bideford. Remainder of windows with simple diamond-paned leaded lights.

Listing NGR: SS7272420593