Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-lintel-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Lower Chapel Street, Looe, PL13 1AU
- OS grid reference
- SX 256 531
- Coordinates
- 50.35258, -4.45273
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a parish church located in East Looe, with its tower likely dating from the 15th century, while the rest of the church was built in 1888. It is constructed from grey limestone with freestone dressings, and the tower is made of slatestone rubble with 19th-century granite dressings and an embattled parapet on moulded corbels. The roofs are steep and made of Delabole slate, featuring a polygonal end to the chancel, and coped gable ends on the north aisle and west end of the nave.
The church has a west tower, a nave, a chancel with a canted end, a north aisle, and a vestry at the east end. Weathered buttresses divide the bays. The exterior is designed in the Middle Pointed style. The south wall has four bays, with a wider bay on the left, featuring three-light windows with trefoil heads and tracery above pairs of sexfoils. The north wall of the north aisle has four bays, with two three-light windows on the left that have trefoil-headed lights and quatrefoil tracery. There is a large pointed-arched doorway in the third bay with two orders, nook shafts, and a pair of original V-jointed doors with ornate iron hinges.
The north wall of the vestry features a lancet window with a hoodmould. The east wall includes a canted chancel apse on the left, which has three pointed-arched two-light windows with trefoil-headed lights and cinquefoil tracery, all with hoodmoulds. The lean-to vestry on the right has a gabled stepped three-light window with trefoil heads. Above the lean-to, the east gable of the north aisle has a rose window with three cinquefoils and three trefoils, also with a hoodmould.
The west end of the church features a central tower with several original slit windows, 19th-century granite windows in the upper stage, and a similar window on the south wall of the tower at ground level, where the central section of the wall surrounding it has been rebuilt. There is a blocked clock face on the north wall. The visible west end of the nave has a pointed arched doorway with nook shafts. The interior was not accessible at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Church of St Mary sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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