The magnificent rood screen (the finest in North Devon), dating from 1450, is a massive structure of eleven bays, 45 ft 6 in long, 12 ft 6 in high and 5 ft 10 in wide at the top.
 Earlier times saw both the organ and seating on top of the screen.
Other features of great interest include the fine Norman font and the old wagon roofs.
The monuments include an elaborate medieval tomb-chest, a small brass of 1610 and a metal-inlaid lid of a churchyard tomb of 1618.

The church contains a set of five windows by the glass painters Caroline Townshend and Joan Howson which depict the history of the parish.
A further window by Townshend & Howson is installed at St John's Chapel of Ease in Hartland Square.
The main east window and the tower window are by Christopher Webb.
There are at least two windows by Alfred Beer - south sanctuary and east chancel chapel; it is possible that the removed but retained glass from the south chancel chapel window is also by Beer.

The whole building is fitted out with a fine if plain set of pews mostly dating from the 16th-century.

The graveyard of St. Nectan's is the burial place of Mary Norton, a children's writer, whose most famous work is The Borrowers.
The magnificent rood screen (the finest in North Devon), dating from 1450, is a massive structure of eleven bays, 45 ft 6 in long, 12 ft 6 in high and 5 ft 10 in wide at the top.  Earlier times saw both the organ and seating on top of the screen. Other features of great interest include the fine Norman font and the old wagon roofs. The monuments include an elaborate medieval tomb-chest, a small brass of 1610 and a metal-inlaid lid of a churchyard tomb of 1618.
The church contains a set of five windows by the glass painters Caroline Townshend and Joan Howson which depict the history of the parish. A further window by Townshend & Howson is installed at St John's Chapel of Ease in Hartland Square. The main east window and the tower window are by Christopher Webb. There are at least two windows by Alfred Beer - south sanctuary and east chancel chapel; it is possible that the removed but retained glass from the south chancel chapel window is also by Beer.
The whole building is fitted out with a fine if plain set of pews mostly dating from the 16th-century.
The graveyard of St. Nectan's is the burial place of Mary Norton, a children's writer, whose most famous work is The Borrowers.
St Nectan's Church, Hartland