Church of St Maurice
CHURCH OF ST MAURICE, CHURCH ROAD, PLYMPTON ST MAURICE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1130037
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Maurice
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MAURICE, CHURCH ROAD, PLYMPTON ST MAURICE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1130037
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Maurice
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MAURICE, CHURCH ROAD, PLYMPTON ST MAURICE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MAURICE, CHURCH ROAD, PLYMPTON ST MAURICE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 54582 55759
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14/01/2013
SX5455NE
740-1/50/464
29/03/60
PLYMOUTH
CHURCH ROAD, Plympton St Maurice
(North side)
Church of St Maurice
(Formerly listed as Church of St Thomas)
GV II*
Parish church. Mainly C15, the tower rebuilt 1446, restored
1878 by EH Sedding; nave roof 1905 copied from original roof
by Hine and Odgers. Rubble walls with granite dressings; dry
slate roofs.
PLAN: nave; chancel; N and S aisles; W tower and 2-storey S
porch; C20 vestry to SW corner.
EXTERIOR: buttressed bays with C15 mostly 3-light windows with
Perpendicular tracery and hoodmoulds. Porch has angled
buttresses, embattled parapet with moulded cornice; S wall has
2-light window with trefoil-headed lights over 3 stepped
cusped niches, and there is a moulded 4-centred arched doorway
with square hoodmould. N doorway has moulded 4-centred arch
with carved spandrels and square hoodmould; pinnacled niche
with statue above doorway. Embattled tower of 2 tall stages
with string dividing stages and slender corner pinnacles, the
parapet over a moulded cornice; offset corner buttresses;
octagonal stair turret; 2-light louvred windows to upper
stage; clockfaces to N and S sides, and W wall with 3-light
traceried window over moulded 4-centred arched doorway.
INTERIOR: 1905 waggon roof; 4-bay arcades with standard A
(Pevsner) piers and depressed moulded arches. Built into the
base of the 2nd pier from the east of the S arcade are steps
and the base of a C15 pulpit. C19 wall paintings to St Thomas
a Becket and St Maurice.
FITTINGS: good C17 octagonal panelled pulpit; carved oak bench
ends in the style of medieval bench ends dated 1879; small
wooden font on tall pedestal and carved oak screens.
MONUMENTS: monument to Joshua Reynolds by James Hine, with
portrait medallion by F Derwent Wood, erected 1904.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
683).
Listing NGR: SX5458255759
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473251
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 683
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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