Church of St Mary is a Grade I listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1967. A C13, C14, C15 Church.

Church of St Mary

WRENN ID
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Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
East Devon
Constituency
Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 May 1967
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Mary, Combpyne Rousdon
OS grid reference
SY 290 923
Coordinates
50.72671, -3.00707
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary is a parish church that dates primarily from the 13th century, with additional work from the 14th and 15th centuries. It underwent restoration in 1878. The building is constructed from small stone rubble with freestone dressings and has a slate roof. It consists of a short nave, a chancel, a west tower, and a south porch. The nave features two light flat-headed windows, while the chancel has two light windows on both the north and south sides with cusped heads, and a lancet window on the south. The east window is formed by a group of three lancets. The west tower is short and topped with a saddleback roof, featuring lancets, a two light straight-headed window on the south side, and large angle buttresses with set-offs. There is a chamfered doorway at the south of the tower and a porch with a double chamfered arch.

Inside, there is a double chamfered tower arch, with the inner arch resting on corbels, and a moulded chancel arch. The chancel's south wall contains a piscina with a cusped moulded arch, and there are stairs leading to the rood loft. Some 17th-century painted texts can be found on the nave walls, along with a 15th-century octagonal font. A monument in the church features a tablet dedicated to Nicholas Pinney from 1693, and there are 19th-century furnishings throughout.

Local climate

Church of St Mary receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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