Church Of St Mary

LOOE

SX2453 HIGHER CHAPEL STREET, East Looe 857-1/4/19 Church of St Mary 17/09/73

GV II

Parish church. Tower probably C15, otherwise 1888. MATERIALS: grey limestone brought to course with freestone dressings; tower of slatestone rubble with C19 granite dressings and C19 embattled parapet on moulded corbels; steep dry Delabole slate roofs: polygonal end to chancel; coped gable end north aisle and west end off nave. PLAN: west tower; nave; chancel with canted chancel end; north aisle and vestry at east end. Weathered buttresses dividing bays. EXTERIOR: Middle Pointed style. South wall has 4 bays with wider bay on the left; 3-light windows with trefoil heads and tracery with trefoils over pairs of sexfoils. North wall of north aisle in 4-bays; 2 x 3-light windows on left with trefoil-headed light and quatrefoil tracery; large pointed-arched doorway to 3rd bay has 2 orders with nook shafts and pair of original V-jointed doors with ornate iron hinges. North wall of vestry on left with lancet with hoodmould. East wall has canted chancel apse on left with 3 pointed-arched 2-light windows with trefoil-headed lights and cinquefoil tracery; hoodmoulds. Lean-to vestry on right with gabled stepped 3-light window with trefoil heads. East gable of north aisle above lean-to has rose window with 3 cinquefoils and 3 trefoils; hoodmould. West end has central tower with many original slit windows; C19 granite windows to upper stage and similar window to south wall of tower to ground floor with central section of wall surrounding it rebuilt; blocked clockface to north wall. Visible west end of nave has pointed arched doorway with nook shafts. INTERIOR not accessible at time of survey. (Kelly's Directories: Cornwall: 1906-: 192).

Listing NGR: SX2561253175