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J0UBNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
Mention should be made of the great oak close to the church- 
yard, about 27 feet in circumference, but very bare at the top, and 
the trunk so decayed that it forms an archway, through which a 
person may easily pass. Tradition says it is much older than the 
church. I question it. Near this tree is the base of an ancient 
granite cross. 
We now take a long stride in quite another direction of the 
Dartmoor borders, to Ugborough. The church here — to whom 
dedicated has not been found — is a remarkably fine building, with 
a nave, built in 1323, 100 feet long by 26^- wide ; north and south 
aisles, erected at the same time, 125 feet in length, and between 
10 and 11 feet in breadth. There are eight piers and arches and 
two responds on each side of the nave of bold but effective masonry, 
and should the present unsightly plaster ceiling to the nave ever be 
removed, and the roof timbers exposed to view, the church will 
present a very impressive appearance, as in size it is not equalled 
by any church in the archdeaconry of Totnes, St. Andrew's, Ply- 
mouth, alone excepted. There are Perpendicular north and south 
transepts, about 12 feet by 15 feet, with chancel nearly 40 feet in 
depth, having at the entrance remains of a screen, with painted 
figures of saints in the panels. In the north aisle are some finely- 
executed carvings in the ribs of the roof. There are about seventy 
bosses, all dissimilar in design. One boss represents a sow suckling 
her litter ; another a Turk's head ; and another a smith hammering 
out a horse's shoe. 
On the east wall of the north transept is a brass, two feet in 
length, with the effigy of a female engraved upon it. It was 
discovered near its present position when this portion of the 
church was restored in 1862. 
Here, as at Brent, there are remains of stone benches against 
the walls and around the pillars. These were, originally, the only 
fixed seats in many of the Moorland churches. 
The pulpit in this church is of stone, Perpendicular in style, of 
the same form as, though much plainer than, the fine pulpits at 
Dartmouth and Harberton. The one at Harberton is a very character- 
istic and elaborate piece of Devonshire work. 
The Ugborough tower, which is later than the church, and was 
built early in the sixteenth century, is one of the loftiest in Devon, 
being nearly 100 feet in height. It is not quite square, being 
23 feet 6 inches by 24 feet 6 inches. There are buttresses of two 
