all apparently of the British period. Roman relics have
been found from time to time at Exeter (_Isca Damnoniorum_), the only
large Roman station in the county.

The churches are for the most part of the Perpendicular period, dating
from the middle of the 14th to the end of the 15th century. Exeter
cathedral is of course an exception, the whole (except the Norman
towers) being very beautiful Decorated work. The special features of
Devonshire churches, however, are the richly carved pulpits and chancel
screens of wood, in which this county exceeded every other in England,
with the exception of Norfolk and Suffolk. The designs are rich and
varied, and the skill displayed often very great. Granite crosses are
frequent, the finest and earliest being that of Coplestone, near
Crediton. Monastic remains are scanty; the principal are those at Tor,
Buckfast, Tavistock and Buckland Abbeys. Among domestic buildings the
houses of Wear Gilford, Bradley and Dartington of the 15th century;
Bradfield and Holcombe Rogus (Elizabethan), and Forde (Jacobean),
deserve notice. The ruined castles of Okehampton (Edward I.), Exeter,
with its vast British earthworks, Berry Pomeroy (Henry III., with ruins
of a large Tudor mansion), Totnes (Henry III.) and Compton (early 15th
century), are all interesting and picturesque.

AUTHORITIES.--T. Westcote, _Survey of Devon_, written about 1630, and
first printed in 1845; J. Prince, _Worthies of Devon_ (Exeter, 1701);
Sir W. Pole, _Collections towards a History of the County of Devon_
(London, 1791); R. Polwhele, _History of Devonshire_ (3 vols. Exeter,
1797, 1798-1800); T. Moore, _History of Devon from the Earliest Period
to the Present Time_ (vols, i., ii., London, 1829-1831); G. Oliver,
_Historic Collections relating to the Monasteries in Devon_ (Exeter,
1820); D. and S. Lysons, _Magna Britannia_ (vol. vi., London, 1822);
_Ecclesiastical Antiquities in Devon_ (Exeter, 1844); Mrs Bray,
_Traditions of Devonshire_, in a series of letters to Robert Southey
(London, 1838); G. C. Boase, _Devonshire Bibliography_ (London, 1883);
Sir W. R. Drake, _Devonshire Notes and Notelets_ (London, 1888); S.
Hewett, _Peasant Speech of Devon_ (London, 1892); R. N. Worth,
_History of Devonshire_ (London, 1886, new edition, 1895); C. Worthy,
_Devonshire Parishes_ (Exeter, 1887); _Devonshire Wills_ (London,
1896); _Victoria County History, Devonshire_.

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