St. Matthew’s Anglican Church is part of the Coast and 'Combe Mission Community together with the churches of St. Sabinus’ Woolacombe and St. Mary’s Mortehoe.

The parish of Lee is the smallest of the three, with less than 200 people living in Lincombe (up the hill), Lee (the lower part, winding down to the sea at Lee Bay) and a number of outlying farms and houses. The parish is served by the church of St. Matthew and St. Wardrede, dating from 1835 - a little gem, seating 70 at a push, with Victorian wall-stencils, Jacobean carved oak woodwork (taken from the old Manor House) and a musicians' gallery.