Description

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SX5455NE
740-1/50/464
29/03/60

PLYMOUTH
CHURCH ROAD, Plympton St Maurice
(North side)
Church of St Maurice

(Formerly listed as Church of St Thomas)

GV II*

Parish church. Mainly C15, the tower rebuilt 1446, restored
1878 by EH Sedding; nave roof 1905 copied from original roof
by Hine and Odgers. Rubble walls with granite dressings; dry
slate roofs.
PLAN: nave; chancel; N and S aisles; W tower and 2-storey S
porch; C20 vestry to SW corner.
EXTERIOR: buttressed bays with C15 mostly 3-light windows with
Perpendicular tracery and hoodmoulds. Porch has angled
buttresses, embattled parapet with moulded cornice; S wall has
2-light window with trefoil-headed lights over 3 stepped
cusped niches, and there is a moulded 4-centred arched doorway
with square hoodmould. N doorway has moulded 4-centred arch
with carved spandrels and square hoodmould; pinnacled niche
with statue above doorway. Embattled tower of 2 tall stages
with string dividing stages and slender corner pinnacles, the
parapet over a moulded cornice; offset corner buttresses;
octagonal stair turret; 2-light louvred windows to upper
stage; clockfaces to N and S sides, and W wall with 3-light
traceried window over moulded 4-centred arched doorway.
INTERIOR: 1905 waggon roof; 4-bay arcades with standard A
(Pevsner) piers and depressed moulded arches. Built into the
base of the 2nd pier from the east of the S arcade are steps
and the base of a C15 pulpit. C19 wall paintings to St Thomas
a Becket and St Maurice.
FITTINGS: good C17 octagonal panelled pulpit; carved oak bench
ends in the style of medieval bench ends dated 1879; small
wooden font on tall pedestal and carved oak screens.
MONUMENTS: monument to Joshua Reynolds by James Hine, with
portrait medallion by F Derwent Wood, erected 1904.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
683).

Listing NGR: SX5458255759

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Maurice, Plympton at Wikipedia
• Church of St Maurice, Plympton official website
• Wikidata Q17554221

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