Listed buildings and historic structures - churches, farmhouses, bridges, mills and the like.
Ashburton
Grade I parish church on West Street, with a 21 m granite-dressed tower built before 1449 and restored by G E Street in 1882-3.
Buckland Monachorum, Yelverton
Grade I parish church, mainly later 15th century, with a hammerbeam nave roof with musician angels and the Drake Chapel's granite vault.
Moretonhampstead, Newton Abbot
Grade I granite parish church with a four-stage tower recorded in 1418, a late 15th-century nave and aisles, and heavy restorations in 1856 and 1904-5.
Whitchurch, Tavistock
Grade I granite church at Whitchurch with a Norman south door, a chancel of about 1300 and a 15th-century tower, nave and north aisle.
Grade I listed medieval church dedicated to St John the Baptist, a landmark of stone and faith on the Dartmoor landscape.
“The simple and time-worn memorials of unchronicled ages, rear their hoary forms amidst the sombre solitudes of the moor.”
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A Victorian parish church at Horrabridge, built in 1893 to designs by Fellowes Prynne, with a tall slender spire over the crossing. Grade II* listed.
Buckfast, Buckfastleigh
The abbey church of Buckfast Abbey, built from 1907 by Benedictine monks on the foundations of the medieval Cistercian church. Grade II* listed; not a village parish church.
Holne, Newton Abbot
Grade I church of about 1300 enlarged about 1500, with a painted screen and pulpit of that date; Charles Kingsley was born in the village in 1819.
Throwleigh, Okehampton
Grade I granite church, mostly rebuilt in the 15th century, with an unusually ornate priest's doorway and a unique Easter Sepulchre.
