The most obvious of these is the Anglican Church of St Sabinus, consecrated in 1912, and which is sited on the main road into the village centre. The church is dedicated to St Sabinus, a canonised Italian bishop; local stories claim it was named after a missionary from Ireland who was ship-wrecked at Woolacombe but there is no evidence to support this. St. Sabinus church was designed by the architect W. D. Caröe and built in 1909-12.