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
Colebrooke Church of St Andrew Description
Cracking church, mainly fourteenth century nave and chancel, with a fifteenth century north aisle. The tower is a bit of both…
Cadbury Church of St Michael and All Angels Description
It is a modest dainty, a perfect little Devon red stone church, a primroses in the spring kind of pleasant…
Atherington Church of St Mary Description
Entering Atherington church is a pause, a questioning, a bareness, aged woodwork and clear glass taking a moment to reveal their beauty
Trusham Church of Saint Michael Description
Small as it is, the church is the oldest attested in the Teign Valley, held by the Abbey of Buckfast in the Domesday Book…
Bovey Tracey Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Thomas of Canterbury Description
A large space, beautifully lit, with fine pillars and a rood screen beckoning. The north side has two aisles, the outer one was added in 1858.
Jacobstowe Church of St James Description
The oldest part of the present structure is Norman; deep sidewalls, the font, a possible Norman altar just on the right of the porch…
Churchstow Church of St Mary Description
Most of the roads leading to Churchstow church rise so gradually that its positioning on top of the world is a shock…
Halberton Church of St Andrew Description
Those attractive red stone arches gracefully flowing up the nave, dipping elegantly to meet the octagonal pillars…
Spreyton Church of St Michael Description
Inside is a place of wondrous simplicity, every texture picked out by the granite-clear light streaming through the nave windows.
Satterleigh Church of St Peter Description
An extraordinary church, holding layers of historical beauty and set deep in the fields of glorious Devon, a total jewel.
Bow church of St Bartholomew Description
It is a sweet little thing. Originally Norman at least, it was rebuilt in the fourteenth century, and added to in the fifteenth.
Ipplepen Church of St Andrew Description
Mainly fifteenth century but goes backaways, as the Norman priest’s door shows and inside is a fine mixture of light and South Devon red stone
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