St George's Church, Georgeham

The oldest part of the building is the 14th-century tower which is of three stages with set back buttresses and an embattled parapet and stair turret with four slit windows to the north side.

The wooden screen between the nave and the Pickwell Chapel with its Corinthian pilasters and broken segmental pediment dates to this time[4] and was restored in 1912.

The Last Supper reredos above the altar dates from this period while a new pulpit of Caen stone was installed; this has carvings of St John the Baptist in the wilderness, the Sermon on the Mount and Saint Paul in Athens.

[2][7] The stone effigy in the Pickwell Chapel is of Sir Mauger St Aubyn III, who fought the Welsh in 1283 and who died in 1294.

His wife Isabel Pickwell (died after 1308) is also buried in the church but her monument has not survived, most probably having been moved during the Georgian or Victorian restorations.

[12] The large bible in the Pickwell Chapel is a memento to Archibald Cleveland who took part in the Charge of the Light Brigade in October 1854 but who was subsequently killed during the Battle of Inkerman in November 1854.

The project was initiated by the Women's Institute and commemorated the 75th anniversary of the founding of the WI in the Devon area and was displayed at The Barbican in London in 1996.

The church clock was installed in 1921 in memory of those parishioners who died on active service during World War I and was paid for by residents of the village.

The murals on either side of the altar represent Saints Francis and George, the Archangel and the Virgin Mary and are the work of artist Margaret Kemp-Welch, who lived in the village during the 1920s and 1930s.