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Parish Church of:
Veep, St
The church of St. Ciricius is an edifice of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 6 bells, noted for their purity of tone: there are several stained windows, including a memorial window erected in 1875, to the late Frank Parkyn esq, of Lerryn: in the south aisle over the priest's door is a mural monument to Nicholas Courtenay dated 1589, and beneath the south porch is buried a former vicar, who died in 1775: there is an ancient granite font: the wall plate of the roof is carved and there is also some carved work in the roof of the porch: there are 300 sittings. The registers of baptisms date from the year 1538: marriages and burials, 1558, and they are quite complete.
In the parish is a monastic house dedicated to St. Cadoc and some time a cell to the Cluniac Abbeyof Montacute in Somerset.
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