Church Of St Aubyn Including Attached Walls And Walls To North And South

The Church of St Aubyn is an Anglican church, originally built as a proprietary chapel in 1771, with a later chancel added in 1885. It was the first new church constructed to serve the expanding docks. The church is built of Plymouth limestone rubble, with ashlar used for the tower and other dressings. The roof is dry slate with moulded stone eaves and a triangular pediment. The tower rises centrally above the pediment and features a truncated spire with shaped and panelled gables, turned vase finials, and a moulded cornice. It includes a square clock face on the upper stage, above a round-arched doorway with panelled doors and a plain fanlight. Similar keyblocks are present on other openings, including round-arched windows; the left-hand window has been converted to a doorway, while the other is blocked. Flanking the tower are two blocked round-arched doorways. The side elevations are symmetrical, with two-window pedimented fronts and elliptical arches over segmental arches.

The interior features a barrel-vaulted nave with moulded cornices, and aisles with half king-post trusses. Arcades feature Tuscan columns with oak plinths and entablatures. A gallery runs along the nave, with fielded mahogany panels and fielded-panelled doors leading to staircases at the west end of the aisles. Late 19th century square-ended oak pews and an octagonal oak pulpit are present. Coloured glass is found in the east window; other windows have plain leaded lights with rectangular panes.

The church is surrounded by subsidiary features, including a low rubble forecourt wall with dressed coping, and taller rubble walls to the north and south with dressed coping and rusticated stone piers.