Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
The Grade I listed parish church at Shaugh Prior: a 15th-century church in stone rubble and granite with a tall three-stage granite tower.
The parish church of St Eustachius, Tavistock, of the 14th and 15th centuries on earlier foundations and restored in 1844-5 by John Hayward, with a clothworkers' aisle, a tower with hopper heads of 1661, and a floor slab for Ordulf, founder of the abbey.
A Grade I listed church dedicated to St George, rooted in medieval Dartmoor's ecclesiastical landscape.
“In the distance, down at the end of the combe, a pale blue mist overhung a morass, in which a little stream lost itself.”
Who wrote this?
Grade I listed medieval church dedicated to St John the Baptist, a landmark of stone and faith on the Dartmoor landscape.
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.
Mary Tavy, Tavistock
Grade I church with 14th-century nave and chancel, an early 15th-century granite tower and a porch sundial dated 1702.
