The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Nectan (medieval)
Parish church
The church is a 12thc. cruciform structure of coursed rubble, with round-headed windows to transepts and tower. The tower arch is also round-headed. The plan of the chancel and nave may be pre-Conquest. The church was rebuilt in 1508 and the tower in 1731. The church was also restored in 1883–4 (Historic England listing: 1333126). The plain font is 11th or 12thc.
Parish church
St Nectan's is a signifcant church with an impressively high tower, the tallest in North Devon. The church is essentially 14thc. and comprises chancel with N and S chapels, an aisled nave with S and N transepts, a W tower and N and S porches. The chancel was lengthened in 1848 as part of the restoration carried out by D. Mackintosh, Exeter (Pevsner (1952) 1989, 472). The font is the only Romanesque feature.