Dean Prior is a village and civil parish near the A38 road, in the South Hams district, in the county of Devon, England.

Traditionally the unemployment rate has stayed low but the percentage of people with university degrees or equivalent has risen to 35 (2010).

Dean Prior has a Grade I listed church dedicated to St George the Martyr,[3][4] where the seventeenth-century poet Robert Herrick was vicar from 1629 to 1646 and 1660 to 1674[5] and is buried.

[6] A gothic church, built in the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century, it is made of stone rubble with granite dressings.

The church is home to a twelfth-century romanesque style font, decorated around the rim with saltires and highly stylised forms, described by Nikolaus Pevsner as being dragons,[7] although Michael Paraskos claims they are examples of pseudo-Arabic writing.