Extraordinary churches, enchanting art, deep history
If you enjoy art, peace, beauty, architecture, history… or sharing faith, then Devon’s churches are time well spent, one of the most remarkable groups in Britain…
Fantastical carvings, breathtaking images, gorgeous stained glass, powerful stone architecture, old colours, new colours, no colours, light and shadow, ancient and modern, faith and love…
For in this field and woodland draped landscape of deep valleys and ragged hills, battered by seas on two coasts, the fierce-faithed folk of medieval Devon created wonders of stone, oak and glass; saints and symbols, coloured and carved, foliage laced, divinely whispered, glowing down through the centuries…
… and then their Victorian descendants sprinkled their own magic across the county. Please come in and enjoy.
Latest churches
Ilsington Church of St Michael Description
A beautiful large Dartmoor church, a fine porch and medieval carvings of saints and angels around the central crossing plus more
Rose Ash Church of St Peter Description
Rose Ash church itself is a careful rebuilding and renovation from the nineteenth century, unavoidable due to part of the church collapsing while worship was in progress.
Meeth Church of St Michael Description
A fourteenth and fifteenth century structure on the footprint of a Norman church; there is still some Norman work
Budleigh Salterton Church of St Peter Description
Budleigh Salterton church is astounding. The architecture is splendid, the decorations are enchanting, and the stained glass is magnificent
Stockland Church of St Michael Description
A pretty little church too, draping itself in trees and light as it does; mainly thirteenth century, with a fifteenth century tower and aisle.
Kenton Church of All Saints Description
This church dates from the fifteenth century, and likely enough was built in one go, replacing an earlier structure.
Combeinteignhead Church of All Saints Description
A right beauty snuggled into its hillside churchyard, mainly thirteenth century with the aisles added in the fifteenth.
Horwood Church of St Michael Description
Deep in the northern hill country between the Taw and Torridge, the ancient ports of Barnstaple and Bideford, lies the tiny parish of Horwood.
Colaton Raleigh Church of St John the Baptist Description
Colaton Raleigh church is marvellous. Nowadays it sits quietly but back in in the nineteenth century was a revolutionary building
Upton Hellions Church of St Mary Description
Upton Hellions Church is a rust-red beauty calmly watching the centuries float by, down a rough dead-end single track lane.
Alwington Church of St Andrew Description
A true scintillation of Late Medieval/Early Modern bench ends, a flood of wonder. And there is far more beauty to come!
West Hill Church of St Michael Description
West Hill Church, a spoonful of Victorian sweetness, a little sugar cube of delight, it really is a worth a drop in.
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