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Medieval period, it must have been superseded by Dartmouth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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