PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY

PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1333994
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1333994
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Clyst St. Mary
National Grid Reference:: SX 97892 90343

Details

CLYST ST MARY CHURCH LANE SX 99 SE 1/19 Parish Church of St Mary -

- II

Parish church. Possibly C13 and C15; transepts added 1818; further extensions 1840; transepts lengthened, 1870; internal re-orientation, 1895-6 so that the south transept became the chancel. Blocked stucco throughout; slate roof. Cruciform. West tower; former nave and chanel now act as transepts, and former transepts (with crossing) function as nave and chancel; north-east vestry. West tower with battlemented parapet and pronounced string course; single stage with 2-light square-headed belfry openings to all sides; the tower is encased within the width of the (former) nave, probably widened circa 1840, and presents a symmetrical entrance front framed by the coping to the lower part of the gable wall, and diagonal buttresses with 2 set-offs. West door with hood mould and floriated terminals, with window above containing 3 quatrefoils in roundels. Clock in stone surround to north. All windows are C19, but date from 2 building schemes; 3-light Decorated windows to north, south and east ends, with hood moulds and head terminals, look earlier than the 2- or 3-light windows with no hood moulds, to north wall of former chancel, and east and west walls of present chancel. Lean-to vestry entered by north porch, gabled and flanked by lancet, the doorway chamfered with trefoil head. Interior: ceiled wagon roofs to present nave and chancel; boarded wagon to old chancel. Chamfered stone arch to former chancel; wooden arch (1895-6) to present chancel. Ritual east window with internal nook shafts, keeled, stiff-leaf capitals. 5-bay wooden screen, Perpendicular style, circa 1895-6, was made locally. The interior is notable for 3 C19 stained glass windows (ritual east, and those to either side of nave), 1870s by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake, which are of high quality. References: B Cresswell, Deanery of Aylesbeare, pp.100-105 (unpublished typescript in West Countries Studies Library); C19 Devon Churches Project.

Listing NGR: SX9789290343

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Legacy System number:: 86155
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Cresswell, B F, Notes on Devon Churches in the Deanery of Aylesbeare, (1920), 100-105

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.