Iddesleigh S. H. Burton wrote that it gave the appearance of being "thatchier" than anywhere else in Devon. Situated on a south-facing slope, the village has good views of northern Dartmoor, including its highest point, High Willhays. The Church of St James, the parish church, is at the western edge of the village, and is a grade I listed building. With 13th-century origins, but mostly dating from the 15th century, it has wagon roofs in its nave and north aisle. A recumbent effigy of a knight with a plain shield, lying under an arch has been dated to and is believed
Church of the Highest Supreme Church of the Highest Supreme The Church of the Highest Supreme (太上会 "Tàishànghuì"; or "Most Supreme", "Most High"; also known as 太上门 "Tàishàngmén", the "Gate of the Highest Supreme") is a Chinese folk religious sect of northern China. The origins of the sect are obscure, although Thomas David Dubois traces it to the theological tradition of the networks of Hongyangism (弘阳教), another northern folk religious sect which has been officially registered under the auspices of the Chinese Taoist Association since the 1990s. Extensive fieldwork by Dubois in the late 1990s and early 2000s has produced documentation about the Church of