Church Of St Mary

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8571SE HIGHWEEK STREET 1012-1/13/88 (North East side) 16/07/49 Church of St Mary (Formerly Listed as: HIGH WEEK STREET Church of St Mary and St Mary's Hall)

GV II

Former church, now converted into housing. Mid C15 tower built under the patronage of the Yardes of Bradley Manor, Totnes Road, (qv); flanking additions including St Mary's Church Hall (qv) built 1826; further alterations 1870 by JW Rowell; remodelled 1992. MATERIALS: roughcast over rubble, slate roof. PLAN: plan of former tower, nave and north aisle, with St Mary's Church Hall (qv) attached to the right. EXTERIOR: tower in 3 stages with crenellated parapet, corner buttresses to obelisk finials to diagonal buttresses; flat-headed 2-light louvred belfry openings except a pointed-arched 2-light window with panel tracery; plain second stage; 3-light C19 window with panel tracery over a C19 recessed red sandstone pointed arch to a set-back C20 door. To the left is a pent-roofed aisle with a crenellated parapet, a 3-light window similar to that of the tower over a similar arch and door. INTERIOR: altered. Various features including mid C15 east window of the south aisle were removed in 1904-5 to St Mary Abbotsbury, Waverley Road, (qv).

Listing NGR: SX8565471425