Description

PLYMOUTH

SX5153SE CHURCH ROAD, Plymstock
740-1/75/574 (South East side)
29/03/60 Church of St Mary and All Saints
(Formerly Listed as:
PLYMSTOCK
Church of St Mary and All Saints)

GV II*

Parish church. Mainly C15. Local rubble with granite
dressings; steep dry slate roofs with coped gable ends.
PLAN: nave/chancel; N and S aisles, the N aisle with rood
stair projection; S porch, plus C20 vestry on its right and W
tower.
EXTERIOR: diagonal corner buttresses; C15 windows with
Perpendicular tracery or 4-centred arched lights, all 3-light
windows except for 5-light chancel E window. Porch has
4-centred arched doorway with moulded rubble jambs. Embattled
3-stage tower with parapet of small merlons over a corbel
table; offset corner buttresses and string courses; 3-light
louvred windows to upper stage, clockface below, and 3-light
traceried window over pointed, nearly round-arched moulded
doorway. Taller embattled stair turret to NE corner.
INTERIOR: plastered walls; 4-bay granite aisle arcades with
4-centred arches, the S arcade on octagonal piers; C19
scissor-braced roofs except for arch-braced roof over chancel;
rood stair.
FITTINGS: round Norman font of red sandstone with palmette
frieze; chest made up from C16 panels, formerly part of a font
cover; late C19 reconstruction of fine late medieval carved
oak rood screen with 4-light traceried openings; 5 bays with
central doorway to each section and some remains of original
paint; fine C17 pulpit with tester sounding board with
openwork obelisk and cresting.
MONUMENTS: 2 fine C17 freestone and marble monuments to Harris
family of Radford to E end of S aisle chapel: left-hand
Baroque aedicule monument with segmental pediment and kneeling
figure in front of oval panel with epitaph to John Harris
1677, and corner monument with coat of arms over enriched
cornice on 3 Ionic columns, the centre column over a caryatid,
also a C18 black and white marble monument to Harris family,
with segmental pediment and fluted pilasters and C19 monument
to the Hare family of the Retreat (qv) with 4 white ovals on a
black background.
STAINED GLASS: chancel E window: fine Pre-Raphaelite Te Deum
of c1880, and in the S aisle, clear glass to patterned

leadwork of c1900.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
680 & 681).

Listing NGR: SX5172353012

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17554305

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)