DEVON CHURCHES

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All Saints (CE) present building mostly 15c, Clovelly, Devon.

All Saints (CE) built of flint,with a clerestory, Culmstock, Devon.

All Saints, Langtree, Devon.Surnames in churchyard

Chapel of St. Lawrence (built about 1200, converted into three cottages and later restored), Crediton, Devon.

Charles Church (17c in ruins), Plymouth, Devon.

Congregational Church (opened in 1865), Crediton, Devon.

Holy Cross (CE) 14c and burned out in 1689, within now 18c, Cruwys Morchard, Devon.

Holy Trinity, Dunchideock, Devon.

Parish Church of the Holy Cross (rebuilt around 1410, purchased by townspeople in 1547), Crediton, Devon.

Shute Church, Shute, Devon.

St. Andrew(CE) ref. in 1170, restored and enlarged in 1330, the middle of the next century enlarged again, Colebrooke, Devon. See Photograph taken by Barry Turner (1997)
Surnames in churchyard

St. Andrew (CE) The arcades of the aisles were rebuilt in 1765 and 1816, a fire in 1933 destroyed the interior roofs of the nave and S. aisle and these are therefore new, register dates from 1538, Colyton, Devon. Monuments in church

St. Andrews (15c, rebuilt in 1957), Plymouth, Devon

St. Bartholomew (CE) register commences in 1560, Coffinswell, Devon.

St. Bartholomews (CE) Bow, Devon. Surnames in churchyard

St. Blaize (consecrated in 1328), Combeinteignhead, Devon.

St. Boniface (RC) built in 1969, Crediton, Devon.

St. Boniface (CE), Knowle, Devon.

St. Brannock (CE) 13c-16c, Braunton, Devon.

St. Disen (CE) 15c-16c, Bradninch, Devon.

St. Edmund (13c-14c), Kingsbridge, Devon.

St. George, Modbury, Devon.

St. Hieritha (CE) 16c, Chittlehampton, Devon.

St. James (dedicated in 1318), Slapton, Devon.

St. John (register dates from 1673 and the church was restored in 1875), Colaton Raleigh, Devon.

St. John (CE) 19c, Torquay, Devon.

St. John the Baptist (CE), Kennerleigh, Devon.

St. John the Baptist (CE) rebuilt about 1460, some restoration 1884 to 1889 on roof, pews, pulpit, Marldon, Devon. Surnames in churchyard

St. Mary (CE) 1200, restored in 1884, Atherington, Devon.

St. Mary (built late 14c of local slate, s. aisle is 16c), Churchstow, Devon.

St. Mary (CE), Upton Hellions, Devon.

St. Mary Magdalene (CE) 15c, restored in 1865, South Molton, Devon.

St. Mary the Virgin (CE) first built in 12c but nothing remains except a rare tympanum over the south door, inside 16c carved bench ends, Down St. Mary, Devon.

St. Mary the Virgin (CE), Morchard Bishop, Devon.

St. Mary the Virgin (CE) mostly 15c, Payhembury, Devon.

St. Mary the Virgin, Stockleigh English, Devon.

St. Mary the Virgin (CE) Norman remains, including the south doorway, Stockleigh Pomeroy, Devon.

St. Mary the Virgin (CE), Woolfardisworthy, Devon.

St. Matthew, Cheriton Fitzpaine, Devon.

St. Matthew (15c-16c, register dates from the year 1556), Coleridge, Devon.

St. Michael (CE) 15c-17c, Horwood, Devon.

St. Michael (CE) 17c monument of Drake Family, Musbury, Devon.

St. Michael & All Angels, Poughill, Devon.

St. Michael & All Angels (CE) Norman door and Elizabethan or Jacobean oak pulpit, renovated in 1872, Shebbear, Devon. Surnames in churchyard

St. Michael & All Angels (CE) rebuilt in 1651, pulpit 17c and restoration work done 19c, altar 20c, Great Torrington, Devon. See Photograph taken by Stephen Bashford (1999)

St. Nectans (CE) present building 14c and the tower is claimed to be the highest in Devon, Hartland, Devon.

St. Nicholas (red sandstone with white stone pinnacles), Combeinteignhead, Devon.

St. Pancras (CE) built in 14c, Widecombe, Devon.

St. Paul (CE), Landkey, Devon.

St. Peter (CE) church maybe Norman, Tawstock, Devon.

St. Peter (CE), Washford Pyne, Devon.

St. Peter ad Vincula (CE) 13c-15c, Combe Martin, Devon.

St. Petrock(CE) 13c, present building 16c, restored in 1858-9, Clannaborough, Devon. See Photograph taken by Barry Turner.

St. Petrock (CE), Newton St. Petrock. Surnames in churchyard

St. Saviour (CE) dedicated in 1372, Dartmouth, Devon.

St. Swithin (CE), Sandford, Devon.

St. Swithin (CE) 13c, Woodbury, Devon.

St. Thomas A Becket, Puddington, Devon.

St. Thomas of Canterbury (CE) west doorway and tower windows are Norman, North Lew, Devon

St. Winifred (CE) 15c rood screen, Manaton, Devon.

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