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Sally-Beth MacLean, 29-Jun-04; Sally-Beth MacLean, 07-Sep-04; Sally-Beth MacLean, 07-Sep-04; Sally-Beth MacLean, 12-Oct-04; Sally-Beth MacLean, 07-Jun-05; Carolyn Black, 05-Aug-05;
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Sally-Beth MacLean

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There are 4 tall pointed arch windows with 4 lights on the N wall and 3 of the same period in the S wall. A smaller window above the SW door (blocked in the 16th c.) originally brought additional light to the dais.

The window tracery, described as 'weak' by Cherry and Pevsner, <i>Devon</i> 312, is mid-18th c., replacing the Elizabethan perpendicular style evident in the Bucks' early 18th c. engraving.

'The mouldings of the inner arches are original and from pieces of tracery found during the course of the restoration, it is likely that Holand's windows were divided into pairs of transomed lights with trefoil heads set in more gentle splays than the present ones' (Emery, 'Dartington Hall, Devonshire' 143).