CHURCH OF ST MARY BLESSED VIRGIN

CHURCH OF ST MARY BLESSED VIRGIN, MARKET ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1386222
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-1960
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY BLESSED VIRGIN
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY BLESSED VIRGIN, MARKET ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1386222
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-1960
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY BLESSED VIRGIN
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY BLESSED VIRGIN, MARKET ROAD

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.

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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:: CHURCH OF ST MARY BLESSED VIRGIN, MARKET 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 53771 56319

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/11/2014

PLYMOUTH

SX5356SE MARKET ROAD, Plympton 740-1/40/433 (East side) 29/03/60 Church of St Mary Blessed Virgin (Formerly Listed as: PLYMPTON Church of St Mary Blessed Virgin)

GV II*

Priory chapel, later a parish church. C14 chancel and E end of N aisles, otherwise C15. Granite ashlar W tower, ashlar for outer aisles and porches, otherwise limestone rubble with limestone dressings; dry slate roofs with embattled parapets and coped gable ends. PLAN: nave; chancel; N and S aisles and shorter outer aisles; N porch and 2-storey S porch; and W tower. EXTERIOR: plinth, buttressed bays to aisles with parapet cornice, carved gargoyles and buttress pinnacles; C14 windows to E ends of N aisles and chancel, otherwise mostly C15 or restored Perpendicular windows, most of 3 lights, all with tracery and hoodmoulds. S porch has stepped cusped niches surrounding 2-light cusped window, the upper niche with statue of the Trinity; below the window is the crest of the Strode family, who settled at Newham, near Plympton in 1394, all above a virtually round-arched moulded doorway with carved spandrels and square hoodmould. At E end of S aisle is pointed-arched doorway and the springing of a relieving arch by adjacent window. N porch has moulded 2-centred arched doorway with moulded hood, carved spandrels and moulded parapet cornice above; C19 panelled and boarded door. 3-stage embattled tower has offset corner buttresses terminating as pinnacles near top of upper stage; strings dividing stages and the corners surmounted by octagonal pinnacles with battlements and crockets; 3-light louvred windows to upper stage and clock face under to N and S sides. The W side has 2-light window to top of 2nd stage and 3-light window over moulded pointed-arched doorway with carved spandrels and square hoodmould. INTERIOR: aisle arcades with 4-centred arches and piers of standard A (Pevsner) type, the piers of the outer aisles are granite; C14 piscina, and stone vault with lierne ribs over the entrance within the S porch. FITTINGS: C15 octagonal font; late C19 reredos by JD Sedding. STAINED GLASS: some glass to outer S aisle by Burlison & Grylls and glass at E end of N aisle and W end of S aisle by Clayton & Bell.

MONUMENTS: altar slab from priory in S porch; medieval tomb lid with cross to outer N aisle and chest tomb to Richard Strode, d.1464, with figures of mourners and effigy with armour, the top with ogee arches and horizontal cresting; simpler effigy in recess to S chancel aisle probably to William Courtenay of Loughtor; large tripartite wall monument with Ionic columns and family group to Sir William Strode, died 1637; cast stone monument to W Seymour, died 1801 by Coade & Sealy; monument with 2 white putto leaning against an obelisk with figure of a boy to Viscount Boringdon who died 1817 aged 11, by FN Delaistre, 1819, and monument with profile head to Richard Rosdew, d.1837, by Chantrey. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 684-685).

Listing NGR: SX5377156319

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Legacy System number:: 473606
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 684-685

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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.