St Andrew's Church, Bere Ferrers
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| Church of St Andrew | |
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 Church of St Andrew, viewed from the north-west | |
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| Location | Bere Ferrers |
| Denomination | Church of England |
| Website | https://www.bereanglicans.org.uk/ |
| History | |
| Founded | 1333 |
| Dedication | Andrew the Apostle |
| Consecrated | 1333 |
| Architecture | |
| Years built | 1290-1340 |
| Specifications | |
| Number of towers | 1 |
| Administration | |
| Province | Province of Canterbury |
| Diocese | Diocese of Exeter |
| Parish | Bere Ferrers |
| Clergy | |
| Vicar(s) | Revd Nick Law |
St Andrew's Church in Bere Ferrers, Devon, is a parish church in the Church of England The church contains the oldest stained-glass window in Devon (excluding Exeter Cathedral), dated at 600 years old. The building was probably built at various times between 1290 and 1340; it is recorded that an archpresbytery was founded here in 1333 and the north transept appears to be the earliest part of the church while the south aisle is the latest, perhaps 15th century.
Features of interest include the Norman font, an unusual altar stone, benches having benchends carved with traceried arches, and an early medieval monument to a knight and lady (probably of the Ferrers family, Latinised as Ferrariis: dative plural). In the church are two other monuments: another recess with effigy of a knight, and a tomb chest of the 1520s, perhaps for Robert Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke (d. 1521/2).[1] In 1821 the antiquarian draughtsman Charles Alfred Stothard was killed on falling while making a tracing from a window of the church: his tombstone is in the churchyard.
