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.