sentences:  The church and cemetery were dedicated by Edmund Lacy, Bishop of Exeter in 1436; before that time burials were made at the mother church of St Stephen's.The land of the parish was divided between the hundreds of Lesnewth and East Wivelshire, the church being in the latter.It was founded and until the Reformation maintained by the Augustinian canons of St Stephen's; thereafter it became a donative served by perpetual curates.