Church of St Mary's
CHURCH OF ST MARY'S, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328823
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary's
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY'S, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328823
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary's
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY'S, CHURCH ROAD
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'S, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isles of Scilly (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Mary's
- National Grid Reference:
- SV 90658 10584
Details
ST. MARY'S
SV9010 CHURCH ROAD, Hugh Town 1358-0/8/41 (North side) 12/02/75 Church of St. Mary's
GV II
Anglican Parish Church. 1836-1838 for Augustus Smith, Lord Proprietor of the Islands. Coursed granite ashlar; stone-coped gabled slate roof. Plan of single-vessel chancel and 7-bay nave with north tower. Early Pointed Gothic Revival style. Plinth, cill course and offset angle buttresses and corbel tables. Chancel has 3 east lancets with hood moulds. Similar lancets to 7-bay returns. West front has 3 graduated lancets above concave-moulded pointed-arched doorway with hood mould. Tower of 3 stages with similar buttresses framing recessed bays with similar corbel tables,lancets, paired lancets to bell stage and clock. Interior: simple chamfered chancel arch and some original panelling to chancel. Unusual seating with nave arranged as 3 ranks of stalls on either side of central aisle with some nave benches in 2 stalls and returned against west gallery supported on brackets. Queen-post trusses supported from arched struts on wall posts on granite brackets; plastered ceiling divided into compartments by joists and purlins. Coloured and gilded wooden lion from the flagship of Sir Cloudesley Shovel, wrecked in 1707. East window attributed to C.E. Kempe 1887; west window by A.C. Ward 1937; two north windows by Alfred Wilkinson 1967. (P Laws: The Buildings of Scilly: Redruth: 1980-: 14; Buildings of England: Pevsner, N and Ratcliffe, E: Cornwall: London: 1951-1970: 209).
Listing NGR: SV9065810584
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 62482
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, (1970), 209
Laws, P, The Buildings of Scilly, (1980), 14
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cornwall, (1951), 209
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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