English Heritage sites near Dean Prior Parish
TOTNES CASTLE
6 miles from Dean Prior Parish
A classic Norman motte and bailey castle, founded soon after the Conquest to overawe the Saxon town. A later stone shell-keep crowns its steep mound, giving views across the town to the River Dart.
BERRY POMEROY CASTLE
8 miles from Dean Prior Parish
Tucked away in a steep wooded valley, Berry Pomeroy Castle is the perfect romantic ruin.
UPPER PLYM VALLEY
9 miles from Dean Prior Parish
This extraordinary landscape encompasses some 300 Bronze Age and medieval sites, covering 15 square kilometres (6 square miles) of Dartmoor.
HOUND TOR DESERTED MEDIEVAL VILLAGE
9 miles from Dean Prior Parish
The remains of four 13th century stone farmsteads, on land originally farmed in the Bronze Age. This isolated Dartmoor hamlet was probably abandoned in the early 15th century.
GRIMSPOUND
10 miles from Dean Prior Parish
The best known of many Dartmoor prehistoric settlements, Grimspound dates from the late Bronze Age. The remains of 24 stone houses survive within a massive boundary wall.
KIRKHAM HOUSE, PAIGNTON
11 miles from Dean Prior Parish
This late medieval stone house, afterwards split into three cottages was restored in the 1960s.
Churches in Dean Prior Parish
St George the Martyr, Dean Prior
A38
Dean Prior
Buckfastleigh
(01364) 643595
https://dartandavonmissioncommunity.org.uk
The Church of St. George the Martyr, Dean Prior, is a delightful 14th Century church offering a rich heritage, a warm welcome and an atmosphere of friendly fellowship and quiet, spiritual reflection.
The morning services are traditional with Holy Communion from the Book of Common Prayer on most Sundays; we enjoy a range of hymns, traditional and modern. On the second Sunday of the month, instead of the morning service, there is a "Songs of Praise" type service in "The Studio" in Dean Prior at 5.00pm.
The village surrounding the church once included a school and cottages, but many of these were pulled down to build the new road, and as a result the church only has a few neighbouring houses, while much of the parish is the other side of the A38 Devon Expressway.
The parish is part of the Dart and Avon Mission Community, together with:
St Luke's, Buckfastleigh
St Matthew, Landscove
St Paul de Leon, Staverton
St John the Baptist, Littlehempston
St Petroc's, South Brent
The Blessed Virgin Mary, Rattery.
The team rector for the whole mission community is Tom Benson - please see the "get in touch" page for details. He is assisted by a ministry team consisting of team vicar Gina Radford, curate Laura McAdam, retired priests George Day, John Summers, Peter Taylor and Charles Masheder, and four readers: John Vinton, Jenny Holton, David Harwood and Pam Saunders.
For more details, both of our church, and of the other churches, including a list of services in the current and following month, and full contact details, please see the mission community website, www.dartandavonmissioncommunity.org.uk
We are a small congregation of largely retired parishioners who love Dean Prior Church and we also very much welcome young people and families.
There is a warm welcome at Dean, but you are advised to wrap up warmly in the winter months when visiting the church!
Lovers of the 17th century English poet Robert Herrick may be aware that he was the Dean Prior Vicar from 1629 to 1674, except during the Cromwellian period when he was evicted.
PLEASE NOTE - there is parking behind the church, (reached by turning off the southbound A38 immediately beyond the church), and also a few spaces in front of the church. Please take great care - the A38 is very busy!
For further information please see our website
No churches found in Dean Prior Parish