Parish Church (Dedication Unknown)

Parish church of unknown dedication in Loxbeare. The south doorway dates from the 12th century, the tower possibly from the 12th or 13th century in origin but much remodelled and potentially later, while the remainder of the fabric is probably early rather than late medieval. Major restoration took place in 1850, which included a Romanesque style chancel window and rebuilding of the east and south walls. A further restoration was carried out in 1896 by Harbottle Reed. The building is constructed of stone rubble with ashlar masonry to the tower, beneath a slate roof.

The church follows a small plan consisting of a nave and chancel with a south porch. A 19th-century north-east vestry and a squat tower, unexpectedly large on plan but very short in elevation, are also present.

Exterior features include a Romanesque south doorway, while the windows are 19th century in date. The 1850 round-headed Romanesque chancel window is splayed with shafts to the interior. A priest's doorway on the south side was restored in 1850. The south windows are square-headed with trefoil-headed lights, also 19th century. A gabled north-east vestry dating from 1850 features a stack. The north side of the nave is rendered and contains one 3-light window of 19th-century design, while the south side has one 1-light and one 3-light 19th-century window.

The tower is unusual, with two stages, a shallow projecting north-east stair turret, a low parapet, and evidence of considerable rebuilding including part of a string course on the west face and a chamfered belfry opening to the left of centre. A chamfered rounded west doorway with pyramid stops is present, alongside a possibly medieval 2-light Ham Hill stone west window with Tudor arched lights. The gabled south porch has a 2-centred chamfered outer doorway with pyramid stops and a pair of circa 1860s iron gates with curved top rails. The porch interior features a plain plaster barrel ceiling and a 12th-century inner doorway with a surviving outer order of zig-zags and remnants of zig-zag decoration on the tympanum. Below the tympanum sits a square-headed doorway with a keystone inscribed "+ AILMA/BEFOD/OMN/".

The interior has plastered walls with some exposed masonry around the windows. The chancel arch is formed by the junction of chancel and nave roofs. A plain moulded tower arch with abutment to the east is present, and the nave has a plastered barrel ceiling with an ovolo-moulded centre rib, concealing the possibility of early roof timbers. The chancel has a slender 19th-century arched brace roof.

Pre-19th-century features include a rectangle of medieval tiles below the east window, circa early 18th-century bobbin-turned altar rails, and a pretty late 17th-century pulpit (restored 1868) with sounding board. The pulpit is a slender drum with a carved cornice and knots and drapery carved on the drum. A 17th-century panel with a cherub's head and brackets is fixed to the wall behind the pulpit. Other fittings are a mixture of mid and late 19th-century design, including an 1810 font with a square bowl with chamfered corners, 19th-century floor tiling incorporating memorials from replaced ledger stones, late 19th-century choir stalls incorporating 17th-century fragments, an 1870 prayer desk originating from Gilbert Scott's restoration of Exeter Cathedral, late 19th-century nave benches, and a 1904 lectern by Harry Hems of Exeter.

Memorials include two 17th-century wall plaques to members of the Cudmore family and a number of early 19th-century white marble wall plaques. A painted Royal Arms in a nowy-headed frame above the south door is dated 1725 and signed "Johannes Gill Tiverton pinxit". A north window with a memorial date of 1875 is probably by Drake of Exeter.