---
title: "St Leonard, Halwell"
description: "Located in Halwell, Devon. Built Late C15; restored and reroofed 1896–97. Diocese of Exeter. Grade I. Perpendicular style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Devon","Halwell","Grade I","Perpendicular"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-leonard-halwell"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T01:46:42.869Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-09T12:29:22.849Z"
location: "Halwell, Devon"
country: "England"
county: "Devon"
town: "Halwell"
address: "Halwell, Devon, TQ9 7JA"
postcode: "TQ9 7JA"
built: "Late C15; restored and reroofed 1896–97"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Leonard"]
diocese: "Exeter"
grade: "I"
style: "Perpendicular"
materials: "Dressed local slate rubble; volcanic stone windows; slate roofs"
website: "http://www.3rivers.org.uk/"
openingHours: "Everyday 9am to 4pm."
parish: "Halwell"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1108275"
gridReference: "SX 777 532"
accessNotes: "Open every day 9am to 4pm"
---

# St Leonard, Halwell

St Leonard's is a Grade I Church of England parish church in Halwell, South Hams, Devon, in the Diocese of Exeter.

## Overview

Historic England records a late fifteenth-century parish church with some late thirteenth- or early fourteenth-century reused material, restored and reroofed in 1896. The fabric is dressed local slate rubble; windows are mainly volcanic stone; roofs are slate with gabled ends. The plan is nave and chancel under one roof, a five-bay north aisle shorter than the nave, west tower, and north porch. A small late-nineteenth-century vestry sits in the angle of chancel and aisle. The south wall of the nave appears to have been rebuilt in the nineteenth century, reusing fifteenth-century windows. Reset medieval doorframes and the tower west window with intersecting tracery point to earlier fabric, possibly from after the 1288 returns that did not mention a church here.

Halwell was one of four Devon burhs in the tenth century. The church described in 1536 is the existing late fifteenth-century building. The rood screen was removed in 1810. The church became an independent parish at the beginning of the nineteenth century after attachment to Harberton.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1108275](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1108275)
- [Three Rivers Mission Community](http://www.3rivers.org.uk/)