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Church of St Bartholomew

A Grade I Listed Building in Cadeleigh, Devon

  • St Bartholomew: small late medieval church set close to a farmyard away from the village

  • St Bartholomew: late c14 west tower with diagonal buttresses

  • St Bartholomew: detail of tower; ogee headed recess between window & belfry

  • St Bartholomew: nave & aisle separated by arcade of Perpendicular piers; walls white plastered 1766 when box pews installed; restored 1900-1930

  • St Bartholomew: memorial, c.1630, to Leach family of Cadeleigh covering four generations starting with Simon, d.1638, for his second wife Katherine (nee Turberville)

  • St Bartholomew: Simon Leach of Cadeleigh, d.1638, & second wife Katherine Turberville of Crediton; recumbent figures

  • St Bartholomew: Simon Leach of Cadeleigh, d.1638

  • St Bartholomew: Simon Leach of Cadeleigh, d.1638

  • St Bartholomew: Katherine Turberville of Crediton, second wife of Simon Leach of Cadeleigh, d.1638

  • St Bartholomew: kneeling figure probably representing Walter Leach (Simon's son from his first marriage), d.1637

  • St Bartholomew: kneeling figure probably representing Sarah Napier of Luton, wife of Walter Leach, d.1637

  • St Bartholomew: male figures from the third & fourth generation of Leach probably representing Simon Leach, d.1660, kneeling at prayer desk with one of his sons

  • St Bartholomew: female figures probably representing Bridget Grenville of Stowe, d.1691, wife of Simon Leach, d.1660, with her daughters

  • St Bartholomew: inscription from the monument to Simon Leach of Cadeleigh, d.1638, stating that his father was a blacksmith

  • St Bartholomew: heraldry from the Leach monument, c.1630, showing Leach (ermine on a chief indented gules three ducal coronets or) impaling Turberville (ermine a lion rampant gules ducally crowned or)

  • St Bartholomew: heraldry from the Leach monument, c.1630, showing Leach (ermine on a chief indented gules three ducal coronets or)

  • St Bartholomew: heraldry from the Leach monument, c.1630, showing Leach impaling Napier (saltire between roses)

  • St Bartholomew: memorial to Bridget Grenville of Stowe, d.1691, wife of Simon Leach, d.1660, & later Thomas Higgons; erected by her son, another Simon Leach

  • St Bartholomew: inscription framed by wreath from the memorial to Bridget Grenville of Stowe (daughter of Bevill the royalist army officer), d.1691, referring to her two husbands Simon Leach & Thomas

  • St Bartholomew: memorial to Jacob Battin, d.1691, & wife Katherine, d.1669; inscription panel framed by Corinthian columns crowned with skulls

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Entry Name: Church of St Bartholomew

Listing Date: 5 April 1966

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1253997

English Heritage Legacy ID: 437306

ID on this website: 101253997

Location: St Bartholomew's Church, Cadeleigh, Mid Devon, EX16

County: Devon

District: Mid Devon

Civil Parish: Cadeleigh

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Cadeleigh St Bartholomew

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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