Church Of St Mary

PLYMOUTH

SX4760NW TAMERTON FOLIOT ROAD 740-1/12/858 (North side) 25/01/54 Tamerton Foliot Church of St Mary (Formerly Listed as: TAMERTON FOLIOT Church of St Mary)

GV II*

Parish church. C15 nave, chancel and tower; S aisle C15 but rebuilt 1851, porch enlarged and chancel and S aisle roofs heightened at same date; C12 and C13 N aisle rebuilt wider 1894-95; serious fire in 1981 but restored since. Local rubble plus volcanic stone and limestone dressings; dry slate roofs with coped gables surmounted by stone finials. PLAN: nave/chancel under one roof; N and S aisles; S porch and W tower. EXTERIOR: 4 x C15 3-light windows with Perpendicular tracery to S aisle, similar window to W end and E window restored in the C19. E chancel window has C19 Perpendicular style tracery within a C15 frame. N aisle windows are C19 in Perpendicular style. S porch has chamfered pointed-arched doorway. The corners of the aisles are buttressed. Tall 2-stage embattled tower has corner pinnacles and angle buttresses. There are 2-light traceried windows with louvres to upper stage and clock face to E and W sides. Small square-headed windows to lower stage and pointed-arched W doorway. INTERIOR: plastered walls; 5-bay arcades with standard A (Pevsner) type piers and 4-centred moulded arches, the N piers are granite, the S piers Roborough stone (Pevsner). Nave has waggon roof with C15 carved bosses, similar bosses to S aisle, chancel and N aisle also have waggon roofs. Tower has its original roof with granite ribs. FITTINGS: C15 octagonal granite Perpendicular font decorated with shields; pillar with blank arches; C17 pulpit made up from linenfold panelling and other Renaissance fragments, C19 base incorporating old panels; Royal arms of George III with dates 1671, 1730 and 1810; C18 bells in 1936 iron frame; 1851 pews to nave; tower screen (replacing a gallery) 1888; chancel fittings 1894-95. STAINED GLASS: E window 1865. MONUMENTS: tomb chest with knight and lady to members of the Gorges family, probably C14; ornate wall monument with kneeling figures under a pair of round arches to Sir John Coplestone and his wife Susannah, 1617, repaired and

re-erected 1894 and with kneeling children below; alabaster shrouded female statue monument, with flanking female seated figures, to Susannah Calmady who died in 1617; monument to Coplestone Bampfylde who died in 1669; some monuments to the Radcliffes of Warleigh. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 679 & 680; Bebbington PS: St Mary's Church, Tamerton Foliot: Callington: 1981-).

Listing NGR: SX4715260825