Church of Our Lady and St Patrick and Adjoining Presbytery
CHURCH OF OUR LADY AND ST PATRICK AND ADJOINING PRESBYTERY, GLENDARAGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1365786
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Our Lady and St Patrick and Adjoining Presbytery
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF OUR LADY AND ST PATRICK AND ADJOINING PRESBYTERY, GLENDARAGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1365786
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Our Lady and St Patrick and Adjoining Presbytery
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF OUR LADY AND ST PATRICK AND ADJOINING PRESBYTERY, GLENDARAGH 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 OUR LADY AND ST PATRICK AND ADJOINING PRESBYTERY, GLENDARAGH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Teignmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 94346 73192
Details
TEIGNMOUTH
SX9473 GLENDARAGH ROAD 25-1/5/152 (North side) 29/07/83 Church of Our Lady and St Patrick and adjoining presbytery
GV II
Roman Catholic church. 1854 by Charles Hansom. Squared rock-faced grey Plymouth stone with cream freestone dressings and belfry. STYLE: Middle Pointed. PLAN: Rectangular aisled plan. EXTERIOR: chamfered capping to the rock-faced plinth. The coped gable to the south front with a restored fretted cross, has a large circular window of 8 trefoiled circles surrounding a central circle with 8 daggers to the tracery. The coped gabled central porch has a pointed arch, with a large quatrefoil to the tympanum, over a flight of steps flanked by leaded lights to arcades of pointed arches on stepped plinths. To the south-east corner is a forward-facing off-set buttress crowned by a niche, gabled at eaves level, with a heavy square crocketed finial above. To the left of the porch is an octagonal tower to the belfry with leaded lancet windows. Each facet is gabled with trefoil-headed openings flanked by colonnettes on a moulded plinth. The right return (east) has 4 gables each with a 2-light pointed-arched window and steeply weathered sills. A lower similar 5th bay toward the north end, possibly a vestry is probably later. In the angle of the south porch and the 1st gable is a canted set-back range with circular cinquefoil stained-glass windows to south and east and a hipped roof flattened at the eaves, to the nave. The north chancel end is a canted bay with a 3-light window to the north flanked by 2-light windows under a hipped roof with a wrought-iron finial. The left return (west) has clerestory windows and a low gabled block with a 3-light window to the left return. The presbytery attached to the rear left is similar in style with C20 additions. INTERIOR: 4 bays; a 5-sided apse with a lower Lady Chapel to the right and a sacristy to the left; a former baptistery to the right (south east) of the door; organ loft and gallery over door with stop-chamfered panelling and supporting posts. Round columns with chamfered pointed arches, with elaborate foliate capital to demi-column above pulpit. Octagonal pulpit with trefoil arches with carved capitals on marble columns and Symbols of the Evangelists. Font has quatrefoil bowl supported
on marble columns with carved capitals. Reredos with crocketed niches and spirelet. The 5 facets of the 3-window apse are articulated by full-height colonnettes. C19 and C20 stained glass. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Devon: London: 1989-: 797).
Listing NGR: SX9434673192
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461130
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 797
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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