Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGHER CHAPEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1201107
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1973
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGHER CHAPEL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1201107
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1973
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGHER CHAPEL STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, LOWER CHAPEL STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGHER CHAPEL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, LOWER CHAPEL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Looe
- National Grid Reference:
- SX2561253175
Details
LOOE
SX2453 HIGHER CHAPEL STREET, East Looe
857-1/4/19 Church of St Mary
17/09/73
GV II
Parish church. Tower probably C15, otherwise 1888.
MATERIALS: grey limestone brought to course with freestone
dressings; tower of slatestone rubble with C19 granite
dressings and C19 embattled parapet on moulded corbels; steep
dry Delabole slate roofs: polygonal end to chancel; coped
gable end north aisle and west end off nave.
PLAN: west tower; nave; chancel with canted chancel end; north
aisle and vestry at east end. Weathered buttresses dividing
bays.
EXTERIOR: Middle Pointed style. South wall has 4 bays with
wider bay on the left; 3-light windows with trefoil heads and
tracery with trefoils over pairs of sexfoils.
North wall of north aisle in 4-bays; 2 x 3-light windows on
left with trefoil-headed light and quatrefoil tracery; large
pointed-arched doorway to 3rd bay has 2 orders with nook
shafts and pair of original V-jointed doors with ornate iron
hinges.
North wall of vestry on left with lancet with hoodmould.
East wall has canted chancel apse on left with 3
pointed-arched 2-light windows with trefoil-headed lights and
cinquefoil tracery; hoodmoulds. Lean-to vestry on right with
gabled stepped 3-light window with trefoil heads. East gable
of north aisle above lean-to has rose window with 3
cinquefoils and 3 trefoils; hoodmould.
West end has central tower with many original slit windows;
C19 granite windows to upper stage and similar window to south
wall of tower to ground floor with central section of wall
surrounding it rebuilt; blocked clockface to north wall.
Visible west end of nave has pointed arched doorway with nook
shafts.
INTERIOR not accessible at time of survey.
(Kelly's Directories: Cornwall: 1906-: 192).
Listing NGR: SX2561253175
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 376402
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1906), 192
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