tithingman was presented to the hundred court for not carrying a staff as precedent required. According to Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–1872): The civil parishes of Teffont Magna and Teffont Evias were combined in 1934 to form Teffont parish. The population of Teffont Evias in 1931 had been 98. Buildings These are scattered along the valley of the south-flowing stream and the road, in irregular clumps giving views of the woods and fields. The manor house and its adjoining church date largely from the 15th century, with significant embellishments and extensions especially in the 19th century; to the east of the manor house a former lodge from early in that century is in rubble stone under a thatched roof. There are several workers' cottages in vernacular styles, some with carved dates in the 1600s. The house known as Bridges, built in the 18th century and extended and altered in 1842, was the rectory until 1939. William and Emily Fane de Salis paid for the building of a small school in the 1860s (closed in 1876 after Teffont Magna school opened) and opposite it, in 1883, a pair of almshouses (now Acacia Cottages). Church The Anglican Church of St Michael and All Angels is Grade II* listed. The present building, in local rubble stone and ashlar with a tiled roof, is largely a rebuilding of 1824–26 to designs of Charles Fowler, at the expense of John Mayne. A church is first mentioned in the 12th century but the structure prior to the rebuilding was from the 16th and 17th; the Ley family's north chapel of 1630 was retained while the chancel and nave were rebuilt with higher walls, a north aisle was added, and the northwest tower was built. The buttressed tower has three stages and a parapet with four spirelets; between 1830 and 1843 a tall recessed spire was added. Pevsner writes: "It is an impressive steeple, and indeed an impressive church, rising on the lawn of the Manor House". Interior Inside are effigies and tombs of Henry Ley (d. 1574) and his two sons, and an early 19th-century reredos. Sir Walter Raleigh mentions the church of "Tevont Evias" in his Discoverie of Guiana (1596), in connection with the Ley family. Windows have pieces of medieval glass and 17th-century roundels. The three bells were cast in the 17th century. There is also a marble tarsia panel by