East Allington Church of St Andrew Description
A beautiful South Devon church, with the traditional big angular buttresses and that grey slate stone, half buried in the side of the hill
A description of Devon churches, useful and interesting, their history, art and treasures. Good to use as a guide or as a fascinating introduction.
A beautiful South Devon church, with the traditional big angular buttresses and that grey slate stone, half buried in the side of the hill
And this church is old too, its shape has been almost unaltered since the 13th century, though the north transept might be 14th
A finely pretty fifteenth century church sits at the heart of this field-draped parish running down to the mighty River Exe…
A beautiful 14th century church full of light and subtle windows, with plenty of pretty to keep us entranced, not least the wonderful pulpit.
Full of sensational woodwork and electrifying carving, one of the best preserved sixteenth century roodscreens in Devon and more, much more…
Inside simplicity reigns, and a beguiling atmosphere that just invites us to sit and wonder. A delightful and unusual church.
So we enter by the north porch and are plunged up to our waists in a sea of wondrous box pews, full of the browns of the universe.
It is a well-proportioned Victorian church set on a hillside with beautiful views, loved by the parish and everybody else.
A luminous space to sit and breathe with a light direct from heaven even on a cloudy day, though we do miss the hustle of church days
Throwleigh church has a stunning exterior, the weathered stone and the tall tower, and the different views from the hillside churchyard
The church is a lovely mixture of red and grey stone in a beautifully peaceful location and a very pretty churchyard.
Ermington church is magnificent, with a 13th century tower, 14th century spire and artful additions at various points thereafter.
The way he emphasises the arches with double or triple lines, the careful use of stained and clear glass to allow the light to splash around
The first thing that strikes us is the light, and then the space; a true grandeur, a memory of worlds lost, a loyalty to dreams of freedom
The nave is lovely bare stone with soft honey pews covered by a billowing cloud of a ceiling. A wonderful peace to wander into.
The church started life as a chapel of ease, first mentioned in the fourteenth century but with signs of thirteenth century work.
Inside simplicity dominates, but not plainness, definitely not that; simple stone, simple medieval screen, simple benchends, simple roofboss…
The structure of the church is a delight. The foliage carved capitals, the space, the chipped stonework, all these are worthy of our time…
A peaceful church, a quiet village, bypassed a hundred years ago by a new toll road, with a slim tower and the whole in Perpendicular style
Light, elegance and grace flood this House of Prayer, filling every corner and spilling back into the sky… and what a sky; a luminosity…
Inside this church is an astonishing range of little treasures, from medieval stained glass to beautiful Devon carvings. Stunning stuff.
The interior is bare, as churches preserved and cared for by The Churches Conservation Trust tend to be, and all the better for it; a sublime skeleton of stone and wood.
Inside is delightfully sparse, we can see the bare bones of the church, like the rock strata in the local cliffs, and looking closely the details start to come together until we gasp in love.
So the church is an ‘estate church’ and very much a preserve of the Clintons. Happily for us, back in 1873, one of them had formidable taste…
The arcades flow up from the box pews with exquisitely carved capitals and bear the high ceilings with consummate grace…
A flat-bottomed vale watered by a wandering stream, an oasis in the jumbled valleys of the Blackdown Hills, Dalwood is a pretty little find.
Outside, a charming exterior, heavily restored 1846, creating a little gothic dream in its prettily flowered churchyard in the middle of town; cared for with love.
The church has a magnificent old tower, possibly twelfth or thirteenth century, very rare for Devon, and a spectacular twelfth century rustic Norman doorway
The church is built from granite, as we would expect for a Dartmoor church, roughly shaped stones like the field walls streaming over the countryside.
The present church is late fifteenth or early sixteenth century and a petite beauty it is, along with its charm of a churchyard and the stream through it.
Stunning stained glass, beautiful woodwork, a red Norman font and an atmosphere of peace and care, Thurlestone is a wonderful church down in South Devon.
The church has been around for a bit, parts dating from the twelfth century, through the thirteenth and on to the late fifteenth or early sixteenth.
A glorious church with a Norman south tower and a striking spire, fascinating medieval benchends and roofbosses, and a very impressive interior.
A beautifully plain and simple Victorian church hidden deep in the wondrous West Devon landscape. The early 20th century stained glass is a treasure.