The Churches of Britain and Ireland

Tavistock, Devon

Tavistock on Wikipedia.


Abbey Chapel (Independent Evangelical) occupies part of what was once the Benedictine Tavistock Abbey. SX 481 743. © Roger Bird. Link.

A Friends' Meeting House stands on Canal Road. SX 4801 7419. © Chris Kippin (2022). Link. Grade II listed.

The Methodist Church on Chapel Street and West Avenue was originally Wesleyan, and pre-dates a map of 1885. Its grade II listing dates it to circa 1860. SX 4788 7428. © Chris Kippin (2022). Link.

The cemetery on Plymouth Road has a roadside lodge with attached Mortuary Chapel - on the far side of the archway. There is another mortuary chapel in the cemetery itself, at SX 4789 7332. Both © Paul E. Barnett (2022). Another view of the main chapel, © Chris Kippin (2023).

St. Eustachius. SX 4812 7443. © Graeme Harvey. Link. Grade II* listed. A small length of wall from the abbey cloisters stands in the churchyard, and is grade I listed.

Our Lady of the Assumption and St. Mary Magdalene (R.C.) at Fitzford. The porch. SX 4746 7393. Both © Chris Kippin (2022). Link. The history page dates it to 1865-7, originally an Anglican Mission Church, and tells of the "reopening of the church in 1936 after a period of closure". Later closed, it again re-opened, but as a Catholic Church, in 1952. Grade II* listed.

The United Reform Church is on Russell Street and Garden Lane. It shows as Congregational on older maps, pre-dating one of 1885. SX 4823 7456. © Chris Kippin (2022). Link (not working when I tried it).

 

 

 

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