Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, TAMERTON FOLIOT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1386426
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, TAMERTON FOLIOT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1386426
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, TAMERTON FOLIOT 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, TAMERTON FOLIOT 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 47152 60825
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4760NW TAMERTON FOLIOT ROAD 740-1/12/858 (North side) 25/01/54 Tamerton Foliot Church of St Mary (Formerly Listed as: TAMERTON FOLIOT Church of St Mary)
GV II*
Parish church. C15 nave, chancel and tower; S aisle C15 but rebuilt 1851, porch enlarged and chancel and S aisle roofs heightened at same date; C12 and C13 N aisle rebuilt wider 1894-95; serious fire in 1981 but restored since. Local rubble plus volcanic stone and limestone dressings; dry slate roofs with coped gables surmounted by stone finials. PLAN: nave/chancel under one roof; N and S aisles; S porch and W tower. EXTERIOR: 4 x C15 3-light windows with Perpendicular tracery to S aisle, similar window to W end and E window restored in the C19. E chancel window has C19 Perpendicular style tracery within a C15 frame. N aisle windows are C19 in Perpendicular style. S porch has chamfered pointed-arched doorway. The corners of the aisles are buttressed. Tall 2-stage embattled tower has corner pinnacles and angle buttresses. There are 2-light traceried windows with louvres to upper stage and clock face to E and W sides. Small square-headed windows to lower stage and pointed-arched W doorway. INTERIOR: plastered walls; 5-bay arcades with standard A (Pevsner) type piers and 4-centred moulded arches, the N piers are granite, the S piers Roborough stone (Pevsner). Nave has waggon roof with C15 carved bosses, similar bosses to S aisle, chancel and N aisle also have waggon roofs. Tower has its original roof with granite ribs. FITTINGS: C15 octagonal granite Perpendicular font decorated with shields; pillar with blank arches; C17 pulpit made up from linenfold panelling and other Renaissance fragments, C19 base incorporating old panels; Royal arms of George III with dates 1671, 1730 and 1810; C18 bells in 1936 iron frame; 1851 pews to nave; tower screen (replacing a gallery) 1888; chancel fittings 1894-95. STAINED GLASS: E window 1865. MONUMENTS: tomb chest with knight and lady to members of the Gorges family, probably C14; ornate wall monument with kneeling figures under a pair of round arches to Sir John Coplestone and his wife Susannah, 1617, repaired and
re-erected 1894 and with kneeling children below; alabaster shrouded female statue monument, with flanking female seated figures, to Susannah Calmady who died in 1617; monument to Coplestone Bampfylde who died in 1669; some monuments to the Radcliffes of Warleigh. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 679 & 680; Bebbington PS: St Mary's Church, Tamerton Foliot: Callington: 1981-).
Listing NGR: SX4715260825
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473813
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bebbington, P S, St Mary's Church Tamerton Foliot, (1981)
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989)
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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