Church Of St Pancras

PLYMOUTH

SX4757NW HONICKNOWLE LANE, Pennycross 740-1/27/343 (West side (off)) 25/01/54 Church of St Pancras (Formerly Listed as: PENNYCROSS Church of St Pancras)

GV II

Manorial chapel, later a parish church. Part of chancel 1482 on possibly earlier site, otherwise extended and rebuilt in 1820, using the original stone, and altered in 1870; parish created 1898; W end damaged in 1939; choir stalls and pulpit removed 1974. Slatestone rubble with freestone dressings; dry slate roofs laid to diminishing courses; weathered buttressed bellcote over the coped gable of the W end and rubble lateral stack in the angle between the west end and the N transept. STYLE: Gothic. PLAN: cruciform plan plus NE chapel and N porch at the W end. Chancel was extended eastwards in 1820 so that only parts of the N and S walls of the chancel survive from the original building. EXTERIOR: 3-light traceried windows with hoodmoulds and relieving arches to E of chancel and to N and S of transepts; similar 2-light windows to side walls of transepts, but to W wall only of S transept, probably all 1870 but in the style of the 1820 windows; leaded glazing. 4-centred arched S doorway to W end with 2 trefoils above and gallery access doorway high up on the left. Gable-ended N porch probably 1870 with 4-centred arched doorway with hoodmould; trefoil vent to gable and flat-roofed bays set back at left and right with blind trefoil-headed windows. There is a piece of marble from St Paul's Cathedral built into the S wall of the chancel (Power). INTERIOR: plastered walls; painted moulded barrel ceilings except for ribbed vault to chancel extension; gallery to W end. FITTINGS: C15 (1482 Power) octagonal painted stone font with shields and cinquefoil-arched panels, brought from Church of St Budeaux in 1820; painted creed to N wall of chancel and there is a tablet of charities for tything reused from the old chapel, near the N doorway. MONUMENTS: many C19 wall monuments and some resited from the old chapel including: marble monument with pediment to Thomas Were who died 1736 aged 59; marble and slate monument to Ann Trelawny 1696-17.. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:

645; Groves R: The Story of Pennycross: Plymouth: 1964-; Power WJ: A Layman's View of Some Plymouth Churches: 1977-: 84).

Listing NGR: SX4721757862