All Saints, Monkokehampton, Devon

Description

The church of All Saints is an edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, vestry, south porch, and an embattled western tower with pinnacles containing 4 bells: in the church is a memorial to Mr. Robert Rolle, d. 1735: the east window, shown in the Great Exhibition of 1851, was presented by the first Earl of Iddesleigh, and there are several others, including a memorial window to Mrs. Ruse, wife of a former rector, and one presented by the late Dr. Merriman, sometime head master of Surrey County School, Cranley, near Guildford, in memory of William Northcote, nephew of the first Earl of Iddesleigh: the oak reredos, designed by Mr. R. Medley Fulford, architect, and executed by Mr. Harry Hems, of Exeter, was presented by the first Earl of Iddesleigh, in memory of his brother, the Rev. Moubray Northcote, a former rector: with the exception of the tower the whole church was rebuilt in 1855: there are 120 sittings. The churchyard is entered by a handsome lych-gate, erected in 1863 by the Rev. Moubray Northcote in memory of his children.

Church Records

The parish register dates from the year 1653.