Church Of St Catherine

The Church of St Catherine is a parish church built in 1846 by John Hayward of Exeter. It features local rubble walls with freestone dressings and steep dry slate roofs with coped gables and moulded kneelers. A stone bellcote with a single bell is positioned over the left-hand gable. The church is designed in the Middle Pointed style and has a plan that includes a chancel with a north vestry and a nave with a south porch.

The windows have trefoil-headed lights, with the nave featuring 2-light windows and the chancel having a 4-light window with quatrefoil tracery. The multiple light windows are adorned with hoodmoulds and varied head stops. The nave consists of four bays, while the chancel has one bay with weathered buttresses dividing the bays. The porch, located in the second bay, has a moulded pointed-arched doorway, and the inner doorway is fitted with a pair of original ledged and braced oak doors.

Inside, the church has an arch-braced roof structure, which is now partly obscured by a later ceiling. The walls are plastered, with dressed stone rear arches. Notable fittings include pine pews with panelled and moulded square ends, a round freestone font with a traceried bowl supported by a central pier and four polished stone shafts, an octagonal pulpit made of V-jointed boards, and a choir stall featuring Gothic tracery.

John Hayward was a prominent local architect known for his Gothic Revival church designs in Devon during the 1840s to the 1860s.