Colyton Church

Colyton Church serves the village of the same name and we really only visited because it is at the other end of the Seaton Tramway but it turned out to be a pretty impressive place and is worth making the effort to see. As is always the case we did not visit for any religeous reasons - if you do that is fine but we just admired what we saw and took in the historical aspects. The church has its origins in the mid to late 12th century and has been enlarged more than once since. It has a nice lantern tower, some impressive windows and some equally impressive monuments. In its heyday it benefitted from the patronage of some wealthy locals who made money as wool merchants which helps explain the relative granduer of a church in a small village. Even a fire a the beginning of the 20th century was overcome as insurance covered most of the damage and and a fund raiser succeeded in raising money to keep the fabric of the church at an impressive level. Here are a few images of what we saw.