Mary Tavy, Tavistock
Grade I church with 14th-century nave and chancel, an early 15th-century granite tower and a porch sundial dated 1702.
Sampford Spiney, Yelverton
Grade I church with a late 13th or early 14th-century nave and transept, a 16th-century granite tower, and a 14th-century font.
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.
“There was nobody to see him; all the brown moor was void with loneliness and lassitude; not a shadow, except his own, moved faster than the sun directed it.”
Who wrote this?
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.
Princetown, Yelverton
Grade II* granite church of about 1810-14 by Daniel Alexander, built with prisoners of war from Dartmoor Prison, later enlarged.
Chagford, Newton Abbot
Grade I granite church, a complete 15th-century rebuild with a Whiddon table tomb of 1575 and the grave slab of Mary Whiddon, died 1641.
Grade I listed medieval church dedicated to St Pancras, a modest stone building with long roots in Dartmoor's ecclesiastical landscape.
Peter Tavy, Tavistock
Grade I granite church, probably 14th century and much rebuilt in the 15th, whose tower was struck by lightning on 21 November 1893.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“One day two parsons started forth To walk to Cranmere Pool, The weather was not really hot, Nor was it very cool. They walked and talked for hours and hours As only parsons can, Until it seemed as though they'd trudged From Beersheba to Dan. At last they reached the pool and Lo! With ...”
Also on Our DartmoorNummits and Crummits: Devonshire Customs, Characteristics, and Folk-lore — Collection of Devon customs, sayings, dialect and folk-lore, published in London in 1900.
