Dowland Church of St Peter Description
Dowland church is a small pearl and like most pearls it is all about the light. No bling, no glitter, just a rare beauty.
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.
Cheriton Fitzpaine Church of St Matthew Description
And this church too is a respectable church; a well cared for, solid Mid-Devon church, and that is high praise indeed.
Lydford Church of St Petrock Description
The present Lydford Church of St Petrock dates mainly from the fifteenth century, like so many of the pretties here in Devon
Mortehoe Church of St Mary Magdalene Description
Conquistador gold from El Dorado, pirated jewels from Spanish galleons, treasure chests trawled from the deep… how Mortehoe puts them all to shame!
Malborough Church of All Saints Description
WIth a spacious interior, medieval textiles, and lovely stained glass this church does justice to its beautiful coastal parish.
Manaton Church of St Winifred Description
Entering a forest of pillars and an intricacy of woodwork dancing out to meet us.And a fifteenth century rood screen to die for.
Brentor Christ Church Description
A whimsical Victorian church on the edge of Dartmoor with a simple enchanting interior and an astonishing altar back by Christopher Webb
East Budleigh Church of All Saints Description
There are sixty-three sets of oak bench ends, all carved around 1537 and the most complete set in Devon if not the country
Knowstone Church of St Peter Description
Inside there is an attractive sparseness along with a bit of mish mash of styles, from Norman to Victorian and various stops in between.
Ashton Church of St John the Baptist Description
One of the most quietly intoxicating churches in Devon, full of faith, passion and beauty, carefully cared for through the centuries
Marystow Church of St Mary The Virgin Description
Hidden away in the hills of west Devon, Marystow Church of St Mary the Virgin is so peaceful yet so rich in beauty.
Burrington Church of the Holy Trinity Description
It is a big barn of place, high ceilinged and lots of light, only a few stained glass windows, with a graceful arcade of granite pillars.
Bradford Church of All Saints Description
It is a fine little building too, with a very late tower, 1550 to be exact, with a Norman south doorway and a 15th century nave and chancel
Molland Church of St Mary Description
Inside it is an ocean of deeply browned box pews lapping against gentle cliffs of crooked walls, whispering hello from the 18th century.
Hemyock Church of St Mary Description
That tower is Norman, and that tiny chancel is also suspiciously small, early chancels were much smaller than later ones generally
South Pool Church of St. Nicholas and St. Cyriac Description
It is a big church inside as well, light and airy with plenty of echoes. The nave and chancel, seem to be 14th century the rest 15th.
Kennerleigh Church of St John the Baptist Description
There is a lovely neatness inside, combined with the soft lighting that gently paints the browns and whites with glowing shades.
Sheepstor Church of St Leonard Description
Inside Sheepstor church is a very clean space. Those granite pillars are a delight, it is a stone always with an interesting texture.
Rackenford Church of All Saints Description
It is a lovely church, full of little pleasures, modest and charming as the best can be in deep rural Devon
Bridford Church of St Thomas A Becket Description
Hidden high above the River Teign, deep in tumbling valley and loping hills, Bridford seems a universe away from the modern world.
Instow Church of St John the Baptist Description
The inside has been well partied up by renovators, that screen is early twentieth century, the whole is now a pleasing combination
West Worlington Church of St Mary Description
The church is a doozy, with a probable thirteenth century tower, fourteenth century chancel and fifteenth century rest.
Langtree Church of All Saints Description
A sweet little church in a sweet little parish on a sweet little hillside up in north-west Devon; what is not to like?
Kentisbeare Church of St Mary Description
Kentisbeare Church of St Mary has one of the best rood screens in the county along with other beauties that make it a total star
Widworthy Church of St Cuthbert Description
The church is a sweetie, built mainly from local stone and flint rubble. It is also unaltered fourteenth century and full of treasures.
Halwill Church of St Peter and St James Description
Come and meet Halwill church, a very gentle church, in a very gentle parish, in a very gentle part of Devon, full of soft light and peace
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
West Down Church of St Calixtus Description
And this church is old too, its shape has been almost unaltered since the 13th century, though the north transept might be 14th
Stoodleigh Church of St Margaret Description
A finely pretty fifteenth century church sits at the heart of this field-draped parish running down to the mighty River Exe…
Modbury Church of St George Description
A beautiful 14th century church full of light and subtle windows, with plenty of pretty to keep us entranced, not least the wonderful pulpit.
Coldridge Church of St Matthew Description
Full of sensational woodwork and electrifying carving, one of the best preserved sixteenth century roodscreens in Devon and more, much more…
Cookbury Church of St John the Baptist and the Seven Maccabees Description
Inside simplicity reigns, and a beguiling atmosphere that just invites us to sit and wonder. A delightful and unusual church.
Gittisham Church of St Michael Description
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.
Parracombe Christ Church Description
It is a well-proportioned Victorian church set on a hillside with beautiful views, loved by the parish and everybody else.
Luffincott Church of St James Description
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 of St. Mary The Virgin Description
Throwleigh church has a stunning exterior, the weathered stone and the tall tower, and the different views from the hillside churchyard
Holcombe Burnell Church of St John the Baptist Description
The church is a lovely mixture of red and grey stone in a beautifully peaceful location and a very pretty churchyard.
Ermington Church of St Peter and St Paul Description
Ermington church is magnificent, with a 13th century tower, 14th century spire and artful additions at various points thereafter.
Chevithorne Church of St Thomas Description
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
Sampford Courtenay Church of St. Andrew Description
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
Bishop’s Nympton Church of St Mary Description
The nave is lovely bare stone with soft honey pews covered by a billowing cloud of a ceiling. A wonderful peace to wander into.
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.
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.