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    • CHITTLEHAMHOLT - THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
    • CHITTLEHAMPTON - THE CHURCH OF ST HIERITHA >
      • Who was St. Hieritha?
      • Churchyard regulations
    • FILLEIGH - THE CHURCH OF ST PAUL
    • KINGSNYMPTON - THE CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE APOSTLE >
      • REPLACING THE COPPPER SHINGLES OF THE SPIRE
    • NYMET ST. GEORGE (George Nympton) - THE CHURCH OF ST GEORGE
    • SATTERLEIGH - THE CHURCH OF ST PETER
    • SOUTH MOLTON - THE CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE
    • UMBERLEIGH - THE CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD
    • WARKLEIGH - THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST >
      • The Warkleigh Tabernacle
  • HOW TO FIND US
  • CONTACT US - CLERGY
    • CHURCHWARDENS
  • BAPTISM
  • WEDDINGS
  • FUNERALS
  • CHURCH SERVICES
  • WORSHIP AT HOME
  • RECTOR'S THOUGHTS
  • COMMON FUND
  • THE HOLY BIBLE
  • PRAYER
  • SOCIAL ISSUES
  • SAFEGUARDING
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  • LINKS (incl. parish publications)
  • SMMC PHOTO ALBUM
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ST. PAUL, FILLEIGH

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Architecturally St Paul’s Church, Filleigh is a hotch-potch which works. A Norman south doorway and squat tower (with a saucy spire on top), a Middle English nave, a Romanesque, apsidal east end and some exuberant Victorian tile decoration are not what you might expect of a North Devon village church. There is nothing here older than 1732, the date the building was completed under the aegis of Hugh Fortescue, Lord Clinton, whose family had held the manor since the 15th C.

One of the reasons given for the new church was the need to provide a large enough church for estate workers and villagers, and discourage them from running off to join non-conformist congregations.

​Forty years ago when the Methodist church closed, its remaining members combined with their Anglican friends to worship at St Paul’s and we are delighted to be linked (informally) with the Methodist Circuit. St Paul’s is intimate and friendly. Come and try us out!



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