Church Of St Mary

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.