St John, Bishopsteignton
St John, Bishopsteignton
St John the Baptist is a Grade I parish church on Church Road, Bishopsteignton, Devon, in the Diocese of Exeter and the Haldon Mission Community.
- Location
- Bishopsteignton, Devon
- Country
- England
- County
- Devon
- City / town
- Bishopsteignton
- Address
- Church Road, Bishopsteignton, Devon, TQ14 9QH
- Postcode
- TQ14 9QH
- Built
- C12 origins; C15 north aisle; substantial rebuilding 1815–63; chancel restored 1912
- Architect
- William Burgess of Exeter (1815 tower); Andrew Patey of Teignmouth (1825 chancel); J W Rowell of Teignmouth (1854)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- John
- Diocese
- Exeter
- Parish
- Bishopsteignton St John the Baptist
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Norman with later Perpendicular and C19 Gothic
- Materials
- Red sandstone rubble with white freestone dressings; slate roof with crested ridge tiles
- Grid reference
- SX 911 735
- Opening hours
- The church is open between 9am to 5pm each day and has an outdoor quiet space which is open all day, every day.
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England records a parish church of twelfth-century origins, with a fifteenth-century five-bay north aisle and substantial early-nineteenth-century rebuilding. In 1814 the church was partly ruinous: the crossing tower was dismantled and a new tower built at the west end of the north aisle in 1815 by William Burgess of Exeter. Andrew Patey of Teignmouth enlarged the chancel in 1825; J. W. Rowell of Teignmouth added a north chancel aisle in 1854; the spire was removed and the upper tower rebuilt in 1863; and the chancel was restored with a new chancel arch and vestry in 1912. The fabric is red sandstone rubble with white freestone dressings and a slate roof.
The listing highlights an exceptional twelfth-century west doorway (Pevsner called it one of the best in Devon) and a south tympanum of the Magi that Cresswell judged the finest in the county. The church retains a twelfth-century font (re-cut in the nineteenth century), monuments to Sir Peter Lear (died 1682) and the Martyn family of Lindridge, and stained glass including work marked by William Warrington (1858).