Our two beautiful churches are ready and waiting for YOU. You’ll be warmly welcomed at both and can find out what’s happening at them both on our event pages.
Use these links to find out more about each of the churches and to get directions to them.
St. John’s, Bovey Tracey
In 1849 the Reverend Charles Leslie Courtenay was appointed vicar of the Church of Saints Peter, Paul, and Thomas, at Bovey Tracey. Courtney decided to build a new church, dedicated to St John the Evangelist, to serve as a chapel of ease to the parish church, and a piece of land on an area to the south of Bovey Tracey was obtained. The church, now listed at Grade II*, was built to the designs of R C Carpenter in 1851-3.…
St. Luke’s, Milber
St. Luke’s was built on and off between 1936 and 1963. Its unusual design came to a parish priest in a dream one evening. The dreamer was the Reverend William Keble Martin (author of the famous book “The concise British Flora in Colour”) who dreamt with extraordinary vividness of a crowded evening service at Milber Church which had been built and which was of a most unusual design. The architect was Keble Martin’s brother Arthur Martin in London, a fellow…