More information : (SX 88655032) St Petrox Ch (NAT).(1) A document of 1192 describes land at Little Dartmouth as lying between the minster or monastery and the land of Stoke. Radford (a) suggests that the minster must relate to the church of Saint Petrox, and it is possible that a pre-Conquest minster existed here, although the document is late. Leland mentions the chapel of 'S Patrike' within Dartmouth Castle, which 'hath beene yn tymes paste ... sum little celle annexid to sum great abbay'. The present church has a tower which may be attributed to the later Medieval period, but the remainder of the structure probably dates from the first half of the 16th century. It was considerably embellished about 100 years later, and the pulpit and a plaque over the west doorway of the north aisle bear the date 1641. The church was restored in 1833, after a period of disuse and neglect. If, as seems possible, it served as a watch-place in the Medieval period, it must have been superseded by Dartmouth Castle. (2-7)
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