St Andrew, Harberton
St Andrew, Harberton
St Andrew’s is a Grade I parish church on Church Square, Harberton, Devon, in the Diocese of Exeter.
- Location
- Harberton, Devon
- Country
- England
- County
- Devon
- City / town
- Harberton
- Address
- Church Square, Harberton, Devon, TQ9 7SD
- Postcode
- TQ9 7SD
- Built
- 14th-century chancel; nave and aisles c.1436; west tower and south porch late 15th or early 16th century; restored 1861, 1871–72 and 1885–86
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Andrew
- Diocese
- Exeter
- Parish
- Harberton
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Perpendicular
- Materials
- Local slate rubble with red sandstone dressings; Beerstone and later Bathstone windows; slate roofs
- Grid reference
- SX 778 586
- Opening hours
- Everyday 9am to 4pm.
- Access
- Ramp or level access available on request
- Website
- http://www.3rivers.org.uk/
Overview
Historic England records a fourteenth-century chancel, nave and north and south aisles of about 1436, and a west tower and south porch of the later fifteenth or early sixteenth century, restored in 1861, 1871–72 and 1885–86. The fabric is local slate rubble with red sandstone dressings, Beerstone (much replaced in Bathstone in the nineteenth century), and slate roofs. A church or oratory existed in the twelfth century, attested by the font. The living belonged to the canons of Old Sarum, then from 1245 to the canons of St Peter’s, Exeter. In 1436 Bishop Lacy granted an indulgence to rebuild the church.
The listing describes a tall, slightly tapered three-stage west tower and a fourteenth-century chancel with a carved stone wall-plate and a double-ogee priest’s door. The parish history notes a medieval barrel roof with carved bosses, including a Green Man, and an eleventh-century font.