Church of St Gabriel is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Church.

Church of St Gabriel

WRENN ID
muted-frieze-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 October 1987
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Gabriel, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon
OS grid reference
SX 651 791
Coordinates
50.59685, -3.90603
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Gabriel is a church built in 1869 by Robert Medley Fulford, marking his first church project. It features granite rubble walls with granite dressings and a gable-ended slate roof. The layout includes a nave and chancel, with a north porch.

On the exterior, there are two windows on each side of the nave, each with one and three lights and shouldered heads. A chimney projection is located between the two north windows, cut off above the eaves. The chancel has a single-light cusped window on both the north and south sides, and a three-light east window with cinquefoiled and cusped heads. Above the division between the nave and chancel, there is a belfry at the roof apex, along with another overhanging belfry at the right gable end. The north wall features a lean-to porch with a shouldered-head doorway.

Inside, the chancel arch is corbelled from the walls and made of alternating voissoirs of stone and bricks. The nave has a simple A-frame roof, while the chancel has a common rafter roof. This information is sourced from White's Directory from 1890.

Local climate

Church of St Gabriel receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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