Luppitt

Luppitt
Parish church of St Mary
Luppitt
Location within Devon
Population444 (2001 Census)
OS grid referenceST169066
Civil parish
  • Luppitt
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townHoniton
Postcode districtEX14
Dialling code01404
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireDevon and Somerset
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament

Luppitt is a village and civil parish in East Devon situated about 4 miles (6 km) due north of Honiton.

St Mary's church, Luppitt, is a Grade I listed building.[1] The font is probably Norman but may be late Anglo-Saxon; the bowl is covered with elaborate sculpture and the east face features a martyrdom.

The historian William Harris was preacher at the village's Presbyterian chapel from 1741 to 1770.

Towards the end of his life, the painter Robert Polhill Bevan (1865-1925) had a cottage called Marlpits on Luppitt Common, in which he painted a number of views of the neighbourhood.

The Luppitt Inn is a public house on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.[2]

Historic estates

  • Mohuns Ottery, a seat of the Carew family, Barons Carew.[3] See: William Henry Hamilton Rogers (1823-1913), Memorials of the West, Historical and Descriptive, Collected on the Borderland of Somerset, Dorset and Devon, Exeter, 1888, Chapter The Nest of Carew (Ottery-Mohun). See also: Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp. 134–5, pedigree of Carew of Mohuns Ottery.

References

  1. ^ Historic England. "Church of St Mary (Grade I) (1307043)". National Heritage List for England.
  2. ^ Brandwood, Geoff (2013). Britain's best real heritage pubs. St. Albans: CAMRA. pp. 34–35. ISBN 9781852493042.
  3. ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.543