The present church building dates back to the mid 15th century. It consists of a nave with rood screen between the chancel, a tower with six bells, north aisle with Lady Chapel and a south transcept (the Reynell Chapel). The church was restored in 1886. In the Lady chapel are stone slabs which covered the graves of two Abbots of Torre Abbey: William Norton 14th Abbot and Richard Cade 18th Abbot who died in May 1400.

In front of the Chancel step is the burial slab of yet another Abbot of Torre Thomas Dyare the last Abbot who died in 1522. It seems likely that these slabs were sold after the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539. Outside the church there are two halves of an early carved Christian burial stone built into the gables at the east and west end of the north aisle. The inscription is in Latin and reads "CAOCI FILI POPLICI (Caocus Son of Peblig) presumably a local chieftain who was given a Christian burial sometime around the year 500 AD.

https://www.newtonabbotparishes.co.uk/page/48/st-bartholomews 

St Bartholomew’s Church Garners Lane, Ogwell TQ12 6AX

https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/8880/ 

 

ogwell.org The present church building dates back to the mid 15th century. It consists of a nave with rood screen between the chancel, a tower with six bells, north aisle with Lady Chapel and a south transept (the Reynell Chapel). The church was restored in 1886. In the Lady chapel are stone slabs which covered the graves of two Abbots of Torre Abbey: William Norton 14th Abbot and Richard Cade 18th Abbot who died in May 1400.

In front of the Chancel step is the burial slab of yet another Abbot of Torre Thomas Dyare the last Abbot who died in 1522. It seems likely that these slabs were sold after the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539. Outside the church there are two halves of an early carved Christian burial stone built into the gables at the east and west end of the north aisle. The inscription is in Latin and reads “CAOCI FILI POPLICI (Caocus Son of Peblig) presumably a local chieftain who was given a Christian burial sometime around the year 500 AD.

http://ogwell.org/st-bartholomews-church/ 

 

Historic England Parish church. C13 greatly enlarged and altered C15 and early C16. 'Golgotha' chapel added for Sir Richard Reynell in 1633. Restored 1884-5 by R M Fulford of Exeter (Exeter Flying Post, 29.4.1885). Stone, with slate roofs. Nave, chancel, north aisle running full length of nave and chancel, south transept with Golgotha chapel abutting it on east, west tower, south porch. C20 boiler house on north side. Nave has a Perpendicular window either side of porch, each of 2 lights with ogee cinquefoil heads (heavily restored). Transept has similar window in west, south and east walls (the east window concealed by Golgotha), except that lights in west window have 2-centred heads. Golgotha south window probably late C19 'Tudor', with reset C17 coloured glass, but above it a small rectangular plaque containing a mutilated urn. In east wall an ornate late C19 doorway with trefoiled head. 

Built into the external north-east and north-west angles of the north aisle, 2 halves of an early C6 tombstone inscribed CAOCI FILI/POPLICI (C.A.R. Redford in Proceedings of Devon Archaeological Society, 1969, pp 79-81)

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1096697 

 

Inscribed Stone

 

Celtic Inscribed Stones Project 

Radford/1969. p79: suggested that the stone was placed in its present position last century. Nothing about the original location of the stone is known.

Radford/1969. p79: 'The south window of the chancel...is a plain lancet of the 13th century...There is little doubt that the oldest church of which remains can be identified was cruciform and of the mid-13th century'.

Radford, C.A.R. (1969) `An Early Christian Inscription at East Ogwell', Proceedings of the Devonshire Archaeological Association 27, 79--81.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/site/eogwl.html 

Okasha/1993, p100: 'The two pieces of stone are both probably incomplete'. Okasha goes on to suggest that the stones were trimmed for inclusion in the exterior wall of the church.

Okasha, E. (1993) Corpus of Early Christian Inscribed Stones of South-west Britain. Leicester: Leicester University Press.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/stone/eogwl_1.html 

 

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