DOWN (ST-MARY), a parish in the hundred of
NORTH-TAWTON-with-WINKLEY, county of DEVON,
2 miles (N.E.) from Bow, containing 400 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £ 12.13.4. Miss
Wyvill was patroness in 1812. The church .has a Norman
door-way, and contains some curiously carved oak
seats, and ancient tiles in the same style. The river Yeo
passes through the parish.