Offerings left there were sufficient to rebuild the church tower, reputedly the finest in Devon.

A modern statue now stands in a niche high up on the exterior of the tower and she is also shown in a stained-glass window of the 16th century found at Nettlecombe in Somerset.

The Trinity College hymn is sung by the congregation, the well is opened and water drawn from it and blessed.

Let all Devon's meadows ring with Holy Gladness for our Saint's renown, And thou, Blest maiden pray, that we on this our day, May bear our cross and win our heavenly crown.

It was subsequently granted to the Earls of Gloucester, who in the time of King Henry III (1216–1272) sub-enfeoffed it to Herbert FitzMatthew for the service of one knight's fee.

In 1537 Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter, 2nd Earl of Devon, was lord, as revealed by one of the two surviving rolls for the manorial court.

[7] It then came into the possession of Sir Lewis Pollard, 1st Baronet (c. 1578 – 1645), lord of the manor of King's Nympton.

Samuel died childless in 1747, and he bequeathed his property at Chittlehampton to his wealthier cousins the Rolles of Stevenstone.