St Pancras is a vast building that is 32m long and in the Perpendicular style, flanked with a 40m-high red granite tower. It is sometimes called the Cathedral of the Moors. The barrel vault is decorated with fine sculpted bosses.

The castle shows the military importance of Lydford which, from 7-13C, was a Saxon outpost; the keep, which today stands ruined, was built in 1195 to hold prisoners.

Surrounded by magnificent gardens, Torre Abbey is an 18C house, a building known as "The Spanish Barn" and the ruins of the medieval abbey. The house has been turned into a museum and contains a collection of English pewter, glassware from the 18-19C and a rare collection of original illustrations from the Book of Job by William Blake.

The spacious Victorian building displays a mere fraction of its rich and splendid collections relating to Plymouth's maritime history. The Cottonian Colllection includes paintings, drawings by European masters, prints, engravings, books, manuscripts, furniture and various objets d'art amassed by several generations of collectors (with a large number of paintings by Joshua Reynolds, born in Plymton St Maurice).