Church of St Mary and All Saints
CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ALL SAINTS, CHURCH ROAD
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1330541
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary and All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ALL SAINTS, CHURCH ROAD
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2004-07-12
- Reference:
- IOE01/11909/29
- Rights:
- © Mr Gerald Rendle. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1330541
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary and All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ALL SAINTS, 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 AND ALL SAINTS, CHURCH ROAD
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 51723 53012
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX5153SE CHURCH ROAD, Plymstock 740-1/75/574 (South East side) 29/03/60 Church of St Mary and All Saints (Formerly Listed as: PLYMSTOCK Church of St Mary and All Saints)
GV II*
Parish church. Mainly C15. Local rubble with granite dressings; steep dry slate roofs with coped gable ends. PLAN: nave/chancel; N and S aisles, the N aisle with rood stair projection; S porch, plus C20 vestry on its right and W tower. EXTERIOR: diagonal corner buttresses; C15 windows with Perpendicular tracery or 4-centred arched lights, all 3-light windows except for 5-light chancel E window. Porch has 4-centred arched doorway with moulded rubble jambs. Embattled 3-stage tower with parapet of small merlons over a corbel table; offset corner buttresses and string courses; 3-light louvred windows to upper stage, clockface below, and 3-light traceried window over pointed, nearly round-arched moulded doorway. Taller embattled stair turret to NE corner. INTERIOR: plastered walls; 4-bay granite aisle arcades with 4-centred arches, the S arcade on octagonal piers; C19 scissor-braced roofs except for arch-braced roof over chancel; rood stair. FITTINGS: round Norman font of red sandstone with palmette frieze; chest made up from C16 panels, formerly part of a font cover; late C19 reconstruction of fine late medieval carved oak rood screen with 4-light traceried openings; 5 bays with central doorway to each section and some remains of original paint; fine C17 pulpit with tester sounding board with openwork obelisk and cresting. MONUMENTS: 2 fine C17 freestone and marble monuments to Harris family of Radford to E end of S aisle chapel: left-hand Baroque aedicule monument with segmental pediment and kneeling figure in front of oval panel with epitaph to John Harris 1677, and corner monument with coat of arms over enriched cornice on 3 Ionic columns, the centre column over a caryatid, also a C18 black and white marble monument to Harris family, with segmental pediment and fluted pilasters and C19 monument to the Hare family of the Retreat (qv) with 4 white ovals on a black background. STAINED GLASS: chancel E window: fine Pre-Raphaelite Te Deum of c1880, and in the S aisle, clear glass to patterned
leadwork of c1900. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 680 & 681).
Listing NGR: SX5172353012
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473261
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 680-681
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 05-Jun-2026 at 19:50:28.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.