Holcombe Rogus is a parish and village on the borders of Somerset, 2 miles north-west-by-north from Burlescombe station on the Bristol and Exeter section of the Great Western Railway, 8½ miles north-east-by-east from Tiverton, and 6 west-south-west from Wellington (Somerset) and 7½ from Bampton, in the Tiverton division of the county, Bampton hundred, Cullompton petty sessional division, Wellington union and county court district, rural deanery of Cullompton and archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter. This place derives its suffix from Rogo, a Norman, who held it under Baldwin, the sheriff. The church of All Saints is a building of stone in the Early Perpendicular style, consisting if chancel, nave of five bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower, restored by Mrs Rayer in 1905, and containing a clock and 6 bells: there is a handsome stone reredos by Hems, of Exeter, and good carved oak screen work in the cinque-cento or Italian style of the Early 16^th Century, the cornice of which is enriched with medallions, exhibiting scriptural subjects: here also are the remains of the rood screen originally in St Peter's Tiverton, but removed on the restoration of that church in 1854; it is groined, painted in blue and red and gilt: the south porch is vaulted in stone, and stone windows have tracery of unusual character: there are numerous mural monuments and massive alter tombs, with recumbent male and female effigies, dating from 1613, to the Bluett family, who were seated here for many generations: the church affords 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1540. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £300, with residence and 1½ acres of glebe, in the gift of Mrs Rayer, and held since 1915 by the Rev. Edward John Barton M.A. of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. There is a Baptist chapel here. Webber's charity, founded in 1823, consists of £1,000 Consols, the interest to be applied in the daily education of 30 poor girls and 20 poor boys in the doctrines of the Church of England. The Rev W.Wills, a former vicar, by his will, dated 1875, left £300 £3 per Cent. Annuities, the interest to be given to the poor on the 28^th December annually. Holcombe Court, the ancient seat of the Bluetts, and now the property and residence of Mrs Rayer, who is lady of the manor and chief landowner, is a fine old mansion, in the Tudor style, and includes a hall and a gatehouse tower, with picturesque oriels. The soil is clayey; the subsoil, limestone. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 3,021 acres of land and 7 of water; rateable value, £5,013; the population in 1911 was 501.

Sexton, Samuel Jones.

Post, M.O & T. Office - Aaron Tooze, sub-postmaster. Letters through Wellington (Somerset); no delivery or collection on sundays; open sundays for telegrams only 8.30 to 10.a.m.
Wall Letter Box, Durley Moor cross.
Police Constable, Sidney Butt.

Public Elementary Schools

Holcombe Rogus (infants), erected in 1875, for 65 infants, & supported by Mrs Rayer; Miss Elizabeth Robbins, mistress; Miss Barrington, assistant mistress
Webber's Charity (mixed), erected in 1849, and enlarged in 1904 for 90

Barton Rev. Edward John M.A (Vicar) Vicarage
James John Earnest, Pearclose
Prideaux Henry Maxwell, Buehills
Rayer Mrs. Holcombe Court
Watkin Mrs. Timewells

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