Church Of St Mary The Virgin

SX 26 NE MENHENIOT MERRYMEET

6/117 Church of St Mary the Virgin

GV II

Chapel of ease. 1905. Rubblestone with cut stone dressings. Slate roof with gable ends. Rectangular with porch on south west and vestry on north west. South elevation with 5 lancet windows with cut stone dressings. Gabled porch to left with chamfered 2 centred arch with decorative stops. Barge boards to gable end. East window, triple lancet with raised centre light. North elevation with 3 lancet windows and a tapered rubblestone chimney between the first and second window. Vestry to left beneath lean-to roof. Shoulder arch and plank door. 2 lancets in west gable end. Timber belfry with lower timber spire in ridge above west end. Base slate hung. Triple louvred openings on all sides. Surmounted by weather vain and weather cock. Simple interior with exposed timber arched braces to roof, on projecting moulded stone corbels. Sealed with timber boarding above chancel. Pitch pine benches. C18 hexagonal pulpit on moulded timber base. Fielded panels and moulded cornice. Coloured quarried glass. East window World War I memorial. Included for townscape value.

Listing NGR: SX2795566014