CHEVITHORNE, 2 ½ miles north-east from Tiverton, was formed into an ecclesiastical parish in 1889. The chapel of St. Thomas was erected in 1842—3 from designs by Benjamin Ferry esq. architect, of London, at a cost of £1,000, and is an edifice of stone in a plain Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave and aisles: the service books and communion plate were presented by the Rev. William Rayer M.A. late rector of Tidcombe Priors portion, who also contributed the chief cost of the building: the church was beautifully restored and enlarged by Sir John H. Heathcoat-Amory bart. in 1891, at a cost of £1,400, by the addition of an organ chamber and vestry: there are 200 sittings: the churchyard was enlarged in 1893 by the addition of a field given by Sir J. H. Heathcoat-Amory bart. the walls inclosing it being erected by the parishioners. The register of baptisms and burials dates from the year 1842, and of marriages from 1889. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £142, with an addition of £50, from the Rayer endowment, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor and the Hon. Henry Dudley Ryder, and held since 1889 by the Rev. Edward Davis. Here is a Wesleyan chapel, rebuilt in 1887.