Church of St Mary the Virgin
CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136852
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136852
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
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 MARY THE VIRGIN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Menheniot
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 27974 66040
Details
SX 26 NE MENHENIOT MERRYMEET
6/117 Church of St Mary the Virgin
GV II
Chapel of ease. 1905. Rubblestone with cut stone dressings. Slate roof with gable ends. Rectangular with porch on south west and vestry on north west. South elevation with 5 lancet windows with cut stone dressings. Gabled porch to left with chamfered 2 centred arch with decorative stops. Barge boards to gable end. East window, triple lancet with raised centre light. North elevation with 3 lancet windows and a tapered rubblestone chimney between the first and second window. Vestry to left beneath lean-to roof. Shoulder arch and plank door. 2 lancets in west gable end. Timber belfry with lower timber spire in ridge above west end. Base slate hung. Triple louvred openings on all sides. Surmounted by weather vain and weather cock. Simple interior with exposed timber arched braces to roof, on projecting moulded stone corbels. Sealed with timber boarding above chancel. Pitch pine benches. C18 hexagonal pulpit on moulded timber base. Fielded panels and moulded cornice. Coloured quarried glass. East window World War I memorial. Included for townscape value.
Listing NGR: SX2795566014
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 61317
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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