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
Hennock Church of St Mary Description
Hennock Church of St Mary surely has one of the best views in the whole of Devon, though that is very crowded field.
Bickleigh Church of St Mary Description
Inside folk have come and gone with their changes, the righthand south aisle was added in the 15th century and renovation in the 19th.
Merton Church of All Saints Description
Inside Merton Church is quite the surprise, the nineteenth century restorations going to town here in the most delightful ways.
Harberton Church of St Andrew Description
A magnificent 15th century South Devon church with a very fine exterior, an impressive tower and a equally good porch.
Luppitt Church of St Mary Description
Norman origins, late thirteenth early fourteenth century rebuild, new tower, porch and a general tidy up in fifteenth, refurbishments after.
Coryton Church of St Andrew Description
Coryton church is a delicate sweetie, matching the size of its parish, sitting on a south facing hillside, with two ginormous yew trees in front…
Lustleigh Church of St John the Baptist Description
Lustleigh church sure has a pretty a church gate as ever is, especially when the flowers are in the full bloom
High Bickington Church of Saint Mary Description
And so we come the bench ends, treasures beyond compare, full of magical carving and deep social history…
Clyst St Lawrence Church of St Lawrence Description
The whole seems to have been rebuilt in the fifteenth century but I would lay good odds that the chancel (on the left) is on the original Norman footprint. Or was there a Saxon chapel?
Ugborough Church of St Peter Description
The main part is fourteenth century, with alterations as ever, though the first mention of a church on this site dates from 1121.
Ashwater Church of St Peter Description
There is nothing that beats a fine church on a fine day, and Ashwater church on a fine day is an absolute banger, or on any day come to that.
Lapford Church of St Thomas of Canterbury Description
The church itself is a corker, a sweet exterior with wonders galore inside. This version is fifteenth century, there was a Norman one before.
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