CLIST (BROAD), a parish in the hundred of CLISTON, county of DEVON, 5 miles (N. E.) from Exeter, containing 1885 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £26, and in the patronage of Sir T. D. Acland, Bart. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is a handsome edifice in the later style of English architecture, containing three stone stalls with buttresses and pinnacles, having rich canopies, and embellished with varied foliage, with an effigy in plate armour within them. The river Clist runs through the parish, in which there is a paper-mill. This place was burnt down by the Danes in 1001. The old mansion of Columbjohn, in this parish, was garrisoned for Charles I. by his loyal adherent, Sir John Acland: it has a chapel, in which divine service is still regularly performed. On the manor of Clist-Gerald is a barn, once the chapel of St. Leonard; there were also chapels dedicated to St. David and St. Catherine. A charity school, founded in 1691, is supported partly by an endowment of about £15 per annum, and partly by subscription: a good school-house for boys and girls, who are instructed on the National plan, has been erected by Sir T. D. Acland, and another for girls only by Lady Acland. An almshouse for twelve poor persons was built by Mr. Burrough, who endowed it, in 1605, with £23. 11. per annum, and placed it under the direction of the ' Eight Men' of the parish. Adjoining it is a dwelling called the New House, and, at a little distance, one called the Parish House, both inhabited by paupers.