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stages, set on square. The parapet is embattled, and at each corner 
is a lofty pinnacle, peculiarly based on corbels, consisting of large 
grotesque heads. One of these grotesques, the whole of the west 
side of the parapet, and the north-west pinnacle, fell when the 
tower was struck by lightning a few months ago. Notwithstanding 
that a large portion of the west wall of the belfry was also de- 
stroyed, and that great masses of granite masonry fell through the 
belfry floor, and that the bell wheels were smashed, not one of the 
eight very fine bells was injured. Though so strongly opposed to 
altering or amending old churches, there is just one little omission 
which Master De Wykeham and other architects made in the 
fifteenth century, and which I shall be careful to supply in the 
restoration of this tower — that is, a lightning conductor. 
Note in Ugborough Church an incised slab in the floor, before 
the screen, and just under the rood ; and note also a mural monu- 
ment on the north side of the chancel. The slab is of the thirteenth 
century ; has no name on it ; only the symbol of the faith in which 
the person (probably here buried) died, beautifully cut on the 
surface. The other monument is of the early 
part of the eighteenth century, and shows 
what progress had been made, not only in 
architectural taste, but in Christian feeling, 
in five centuries ! This is the renaissance 
language which is here engrafted on the 
renaissance tomb : 
" The sacred remains of Mr. Kichard Fownes, 
of Whitehouse, rest here, who resigned all that was 
mortal on the 8th day of May, 1680, in an assured 
expectation of being re-united to his immortal part 
which is gone to the spirits of the just made per- 
fect ; as also of Mrs. Petronel, his wife, who after 
a just tribute of tears paid to the memory of 6 
children (a religious and virtuous offspring which 
went early to Heaven), was carry' d through a 
valley of Grief and Sorrow to Abraham's bosom, 
July the 20th, 1712. In memory of whose vir- 
tues this monument of affection and gratitude is 
In connection with Ugborough Church, Prince, in his " Worthies 
of Devon," gives some account of John Prideaux, rector of Exeter 
College, Oxford, and Bishop of Worcester from 1641 to 1650. He 
was the fourth son of a large family living at Stowford, in the 
