---
title: "St Michael, East Anstey"
description: "Located in East Anstey, Devon. Built 15th-century tower and south porch; otherwise rebuilt 1871. Diocese of Exeter. Grade II*. Perpendicular style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Devon","East Anstey","Grade II*","Perpendicular","Ashworth"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-michaels-east-anstey"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T01:37:00.582Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-07T20:32:57.381Z"
location: "East Anstey, Devon"
country: "England"
county: "Devon"
town: "East Anstey"
address: "Broomball Lane, East Anstey, Devon, EX16 9JN"
postcode: "EX16 9JN"
built: "15th-century tower and south porch; otherwise rebuilt 1871"
architect: "Ashworth (1871 rebuild)"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Michael"]
diocese: "Exeter"
grade: "II*"
style: "Perpendicular"
materials: "Unrendered stone rubble with ashlar dressings; slate roofs with gable ends"
website: "https://edgemoorparishes.org.uk/st-michael-east-anstey/"
openingHours: "The church is always open."
parish: "East Anstey"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1325768"
gridReference: "SS 867 265"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas"
---

# St Michael, East Anstey

St Michael’s is a Grade II* parish church on Broomball Lane, East Anstey, on the Devon–Somerset border, in the Diocese of Exeter and the Edgemoor Group of Parishes.

## Overview

Historic England records a parish church with a fifteenth-century west tower and south porch, otherwise rebuilt in 1871 by Ashworth, in unrendered stone rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. The two-stage tower has an embattled parapet, diagonal buttresses and a north-east stair turret, cusped two-light bell-openings and a Perpendicular three-light west window over a pointed doorway. A late Perpendicular straight-headed window survives to the left of the nineteenth-century south porch; other fenestration is nineteenth-century Perpendicular. The north side of the nave is blind.

The parish notes a church on the site since the twelfth century, though no Norman architecture remains. Interior fittings listed include an eighteenth-century pulpit and communion rails with barley-sugar balusters, a nineteenth-century font, arch-braced roofs and chancel arch, and a wall tablet by Kendall of Exeter to the Rev. John Bond (d. 1807). The church is kept open.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1325768](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1325768)
- [Edgemoor Group: St Michael, East Anstey](https://edgemoorparishes.org.uk/st-michael-east-anstey/)