Church Of St Maurice

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SX5455NE 740-1/50/464 29/03/60

PLYMOUTH CHURCH ROAD, Plympton St Maurice (North side) Church of St Maurice

(Formerly listed as Church of St Thomas)

GV II*

Parish church. Mainly C15, the tower rebuilt 1446, restored 1878 by EH Sedding; nave roof 1905 copied from original roof by Hine and Odgers. Rubble walls with granite dressings; dry slate roofs. PLAN: nave; chancel; N and S aisles; W tower and 2-storey S porch; C20 vestry to SW corner. EXTERIOR: buttressed bays with C15 mostly 3-light windows with Perpendicular tracery and hoodmoulds. Porch has angled buttresses, embattled parapet with moulded cornice; S wall has 2-light window with trefoil-headed lights over 3 stepped cusped niches, and there is a moulded 4-centred arched doorway with square hoodmould. N doorway has moulded 4-centred arch with carved spandrels and square hoodmould; pinnacled niche with statue above doorway. Embattled tower of 2 tall stages with string dividing stages and slender corner pinnacles, the parapet over a moulded cornice; offset corner buttresses; octagonal stair turret; 2-light louvred windows to upper stage; clockfaces to N and S sides, and W wall with 3-light traceried window over moulded 4-centred arched doorway. INTERIOR: 1905 waggon roof; 4-bay arcades with standard A (Pevsner) piers and depressed moulded arches. Built into the base of the 2nd pier from the east of the S arcade are steps and the base of a C15 pulpit. C19 wall paintings to St Thomas a Becket and St Maurice. FITTINGS: good C17 octagonal panelled pulpit; carved oak bench ends in the style of medieval bench ends dated 1879; small wooden font on tall pedestal and carved oak screens. MONUMENTS: monument to Joshua Reynolds by James Hine, with portrait medallion by F Derwent Wood, erected 1904. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 683).

Listing NGR: SX5458255759