Buckfastleigh Church and the devil.

   
       
       
Reproduced courtesy of Francis Frith.
   

'The Church, perched up on high, as if to make religion difficult, is attained by a flight of more than 100 steps.  Of course the well worn legend runs that it was placed here out of reach of the devil, who had a troublesome habit of undoing every night the work accomplished during the day.'

Hope Moncrieff 1895