Churches of the British Isles

A south transept was added about 1380. The nave was rebuilt in the Perpendicular style in 1490-1520, with an elegant arcaded north aisle and Lady Chapel being added. The Charles Kempe stained glass east window was endowed in 1900 by Edmund Warre. The pulpit is Jacobean. During the Victorian period, believed to be in 1853, some drastic restoration work swept away many of the church's oldest and finest features, including the fan-vaulted rood screen.

Bury Bridge Anglican Chapel, Bury Bridge, is just thirty metres to the north-west of the stone bridge across the River Haddeo, flanked to its east by what is now 'The Old School House'. It was built as Bury school in 1890 and remained a school during the inter-war years in the 1930s. At some point in the 1940s or 1950s it was converted into an Anglican chapel, probably to serve for nearby Dulverton. That closed in 1980 and the building was converted into a private residence.

Bury Bible Christian Chapel, Bury, is on the west side of the village's main lane. Lord Carnarvon leased the plot for a Methodist chapel, although when opened in 1889 it was Bible Christian. Both movements had a long struggle to establish themselves in Exmoor. Cast iron windows came from a demolished railway station. It remained active post-war, still shown on OS maps as BCC. Closure saw it being converted and extended as a private residence in the mid-1980s.

The lost Langridge Old Chapel was located on the side of the present Langridge Farm, in a small enclosed area which would have adjoined the garden at the back of the farm complex (this photo was taken behind the farm cottages, looking in the general direction of the chapel site). Langridge used to be more heavily populated, with the chapel serving it, but post-Reformation decline was steep and the chapel likely fell into disuse before the remains were removed.

Oldways End Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, near Brushford (see links), sits on the north side of Woodburn Hill, a little under a hundred metres south-east of the Yanhey Hill junction. The chapel opened in 1845. It became a full Methodist church at the 1932 union, with a Sunday school (held in a hall sixty metres west, now Mulbury Lodge). Recently it was known as Allways End Methodist Church, one of the few surviving Exmoor Methodist centres. Closure came by 2017.

Photos on this page kindly contributed by Robert Cutts, Keltek Trust, Roger Wong, Huw Thomas, and Keith Guyler / British Methodist Buildings, all via the 'History Files: Churches of the British Isles' Flickr group, and one copyright © Derek Harper via Geograph, reused under a cc licence. Additional information from Kelly's Directory of Somerset 1902.