Church of St Mary and St Benedict, Buckland Brewer

[4] Rebuilt in about 1399, the living originally belonged to Torre Abbey but was seized by Henry VIII in 1539 since when it has remained in the gift of the sovereign.

[4] The present church was begun in about 1399 and is built of squared and coursed slatestone with ashlar to the tower.

The nave, south aisle and chancel were extensively restored by architect Samuel Hooper of Hatherleigh in 1878–80.

The east end of the south aisle is connected via a 16th-century moulded stone priest's door carved with decoration of leaves, branches and shields (partially deliberately damaged during the English Civil War)[4] leading to a late 19th-century passageway with a crenellated wall.

[3] The south aisle has five bays to the nave and is fitted with Decorated-style windows with the string course continuing above the 16th-century stone chamfered and carved pointed-arched priest's door.

[3] The three-stage church tower to the west of the building is 76 feet high and it and the three-light Perpendicular window are 15th-century.

[5][6] In the Orleigh Chapel is the elaborate and decorative wall monument to John Davie (1640-1710) who as an alderman in 1682 took statements in the Bideford witch trial.

Nearby is the mural monument to Anthony Dennis (died 1641) of Orleigh Court and his second wife Gertrude Grenville flanked by Ionic columns.