Church of St Mary and All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1960. A Medieval Parish church. 3 related planning applications.
Church of St Mary and All Saints
- WRENN ID
- muted-sill-river
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1960
- Type
- Parish church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Mary and All Saints, Church Road, City of Plymouth, PL9 9BG
- OS grid reference
- SX 517 530
- Coordinates
- 50.35828, -4.08591
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary and All Saints is a parish church, largely dating to the 15th century. It is constructed of local rubble with granite dressings, and has steep dry slate roofs with coped gable ends. The plan includes a nave and chancel, north and south aisles, with a projection for the rood stair on the north side, a south porch, a 20th-century vestry to the right of the porch, and a west tower.
The exterior features diagonal corner buttresses and 15th-century windows with Perpendicular tracery or four-centred arched lights. Most windows are three-light, except for the five-light chancel east window. The south porch has a four-centred arched doorway with moulded rubble jambs. The embattled three-stage west tower has a parapet with small merlons over a corbel table, offset corner buttresses and string courses, three-light louvred windows to the upper stage, a clock face below, and a three-light traceried window above a pointed, nearly round-arched moulded doorway. A taller embattled stair turret is set into the northeast corner.
Inside, the walls are plastered. Four-bay granite aisle arcades feature four-centred arches, the south arcade resting on octagonal piers. The roof is scissor-braced, except for an arch-braced roof over the chancel. A rood stair is also present. The church contains a round Norman font of red sandstone with a palmette frieze, a chest constructed from 16th-century panels, formerly part of a font cover, and a late 19th-century reconstruction of a fine late medieval carved oak rood screen with four-light traceried openings, five bays in total, with a central doorway to each section. Traces of original paint remain. A fine 17th-century pulpit with a tester sounding board, featuring openwork obelisk and cresting, is also a feature.
Several monuments are located within the church. Two fine 17th-century freestone and marble monuments are found in the east end of the south aisle chapel, belonging to the Harris family of Radford. On the left is a Baroque aedicule monument with a segmental pediment and a kneeling figure in front of an oval panel containing an epitaph to John Harris (1677). The other monument holds a coat of arms over an enriched cornice, resting on three Ionic columns with a caryatid at the centre. Additionally, there is an 18th-century black and white marble monument to the Harris family, and a 19th-century monument to the Hare family of the Retreat. The chancel east window contains a fine Pre-Raphaelite Te Deum from around 1880, while clear glass with patterned leadwork from around 1900 is found in the south aisle.
Local climate
Church of St Mary and All Saints sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
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