St Michael & All Angels
Great Torrington, GB
Great Torrington has a fascinating and colourful history. A priest, Humphrey, was instituted here in 1259, but the oldest parts of the building are 14th century. Leyland (1538) says ‘Torington is a great large toune and stondith on the brow of an hille and hath 3 fair streates yn it and a market everywke, and ons a yere apon St Michal's day the best fayr.'