Thrushelton Church of St George Description
The church started life as a chapel of ease, first mentioned in the fourteenth century but with signs of thirteenth century work.
Description
A description of Devon churches, useful and interesting, their history, art and treasures. Good to use as a guide or as a fascinating introduction.
North Bovey Church of St John the Baptist Description
Inside simplicity dominates, but not plainness, definitely not that; simple stone, simple medieval screen, simple benchends, simple roofboss…
Marwood church of St Michael Description
The structure of the church is a delight. The foliage carved capitals, the space, the chipped stonework, all these are worthy of our time…
Little Torrington Church of St Giles Description
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
Cornworthy Church of St Peter Description
Light, elegance and grace flood this House of Prayer, filling every corner and spilling back into the sky… and what a sky; a luminosity…
Offwell Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary Description
Inside this church is an astonishing range of little treasures, from medieval stained glass to beautiful Devon carvings. Stunning stuff.
Bradstone Church of St Nonna Description
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.
Woolfardisworthy Church of All Hallows Description
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.
Huish Church of St James the Less Description
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…
Torbryan Church of The Holy Trinity Description
The arcades flow up from the box pews with exquisitely carved capitals and bear the high ceilings with consummate grace…
Dalwood Church of St Peter Description
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.
Uffculme Church of St Mary Description
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.
Loxbeare Church of St Michael and All Angels Description
The church has a magnificent old tower, possibly twelfth or thirteenth century, very rare for Devon, and a spectacular twelfth century rustic Norman doorway
Holne Church of St Mary the Virgin Description
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.
Gidleigh Church of The Holy Trinity Description
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.
Thurlestone Church of All Saints Description
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.
Broadwoodwidger Church of St Nicholas Description
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.
Braunton Church of St Brannock Description
A glorious church with a Norman south tower and a striking spire, fascinating medieval benchends and roofbosses, and a very impressive interior.
Virginstowe Church of St Brigid Description
A beautifully plain and simple Victorian church hidden deep in the wondrous West Devon landscape. The early 20th century stained glass is a treasure.