Morwenstow’s ‘dark grey tower of days unknown’. The oldest parts of the church date back to the 12th century and an endowment of 1290 still exists in the Registry of the Diocese of Exeter which records that ‘the monks of S. John at Bridgewater, in whom the total tithes and glebe-lands were then vested, had agreed at the request of Walter de Brantyngham, Bishop of Exeter, to further endow the altar-priest with the consecrated ground lying to the west of the court and crofts of the Parsonage of the aforesaid Church, up to the old way leading to the sea, and down to the stream in the valley, with two crofts by the church on the north, and the rest of the land there up to a certain fountain of John, containing four acres and more of land; with a full tenth of the great tithes of the vill of Stanburie and of the three vills of Tunnacombis’.