Parish Church Of All Saints

The parish church of All Saints in Highweek, Newton Abbot, dates from the 15th century, with the church being consecrated in 1428, and saw late 19th-century restoration work, including a rebuilt and extended chancel in 1892, and the lengthening of the south aisle in the same year. The church is constructed primarily of limestone rubble, much of it rendered, and has separate 20th-century crested slate roofs covering the nave and aisles.

The building comprises an aisled nave with a chancel, a south porch, and a west tower. The chancel features a 5-light window with geometric tracery, and a rebuilt, parapeted vestry to the north-east corner with lancet windows and a semicircular doorway. The north aisle has three irregularly spaced 3-light windows with panel tracery, and two pointed-arched doorways, one of which is blocked. The south side features a late 19th-century 3-light Perpendicular-style east window to a chapel, three late 19th-century Perpendicular-style windows, three reset late 18th-century memorial tablets, three granite 15th-century Perpendicular 3-light windows, and a roll-moulded architrave above a basket-arched window over a moulded 4-centred arched doorway. The rendered west tower has battlemented parapets with offset diagonal buttresses, and its third stage contains paired Tudor-arched louvres with label moulds; the second stage is plain, and the first stage has a loophole above a 3-light window comprised of two pointed-arched lights flanking a central flat-arched light, all set within an unmoulded Tudor arch. A small, plain chamfered pointed arch, probably dating to the 15th century, sits above 19th-century double doors. The south porch forms the west bay of the south aisle.

Inside, the chancel displays the Ten Commandments flanking the east window and includes trefoil-headed 3-bay recesses and 19th-century side arches. The 4-bay nave has granite Pevsner A-type columns with moulded arches to the south, and B-type columns with chamfered arches of two orders to the north. The aisles have restored 15th-century wagon roofs with moulded ribs and foliate bosses, while the nave roof was rebuilt in the 19th century. A 15th-century font exhibits tracery patterns on its pillar and bowl. Fittings include plain late 19th-century pews, a wrought-iron altar rail, and a brass eagle lectern. Memorials are present, including a memorial to Walter Wemyss Leslie, who died in 1863, by Pickering of Carlisle, and a memorial to Elizabeth Hocombe who died in 1780, featuring an urn within a bracketed pediment and a black marble tablet. Late 19th-century stained glass is present, along with some medieval stained glass at the top of one of the north windows. The church served as a chapel of ease until 1864.