Bishop's Tawton

Within the church, the baptismal font is Norman and there survive several mural monuments to the Chichester family of Hall.

Any link between a possible 10th-century former bishop's church/cathedral and the extant Church of St John the Baptist is conjectural.

The case for a brief bishopric at Tawton is far from proved, but there are remains of a modest bishop's "palace" at Court Farm, next to the parish church.

The monument, designed by Clough Williams-Ellis, was dedicated on 4 December 1971 by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Crediton.

[4] Notable residents included Clara Codd, the suffragette and theosophist, who was born in Pill, Bishop's Tawton in October 1877.

Bishop's Tawton (centre), viewed from Codden Hill
The monument on Codden Hill to Caroline Thorpe, the wife of the local MP Jeremy Thorpe ; she died in a car crash in 1970