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St Lawrence, Sheepwash, Devon

Location
(50°50′14″N, 4°9′0″W)
Sheepwash
SS 487 064
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Devon
now Devon
medieval Exeter
now Exeter
  • Hazel Gardiner
19 September 2001

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Feature Sets
Description

The current church is entirely 19thc., built in 1879–80 by J. F. Gould, with a sliightly later tower by Webb of Barnstaple (Pevsner 1989, 726). It comprises chancel, nave with S porch and W tower. The font is the only Romanesque feature, surviving from an earlier building.

History

The Domesday Book has no record for Sheepwash.

Features

Furnishings

Fonts

Bibliography

F. Arnold-Forster, Studies in Church Dedications: or, England's patron saints, London, 1899, 251.

N. Pevsner and B. Cherry, The Buildings of England: Devon, 2nd ed., London, 1989, 726.