Church Of Our Lady And St Patrick And Adjoining Presbytery

The Church of Our Lady and St Patrick, with its adjoining presbytery, was constructed in 1854 by Charles Hansom. It is built of squared, rock-faced grey Plymouth stone with cream freestone dressings, and is located on Glendarragh Road in Teignmouth. The building is of Middle Pointed style.

The church has a rectangular, aisled plan. The south front features a coped gable with a restored fretted cross, and a large circular window comprised of eight trefoiled circles surrounding a central circle with dagger tracery. A coped gabled porch with a pointed arch and a quatrefoil tympanum leads to a flight of steps flanked by leaded lights and arcades of pointed arches on stepped plinths. An off-set buttress, crowned by a niche and a crocketed finial, is located on the south-east corner. To the left of the porch stands an octagonal belfry tower with leaded lancet windows; each facet is gabled with trefoil-headed openings framed by colonnettes on a moulded plinth. The east side has four gables, each with a two-light pointed-arched window and steeply weathered sills. A lower, similar fifth bay to the north end, possibly a vestry, is likely later. A canted range is set-back between the south porch and the first gable, featuring circular cinquefoil stained-glass windows and a hipped roof flattened at the eaves. The north chancel end has a canted bay with a three-light window flanked by two-light windows under a hipped roof with a wrought-iron finial. The west return has clerestory windows and a low gabled block with a three-light window. The presbytery, attached to the rear left, is of similar style with 20th-century additions.

Inside, the church has four bays and a five-sided apse, with a smaller Lady Chapel to the right and a sacristy to the left. A former baptistery is located to the south-east of the main entrance. There is an organ loft and gallery above the door, featuring stop-chamfered panelling and supporting posts. Round columns support chamfered pointed arches, with elaborate foliate capitals to a demi-column above the pulpit. The octagonal pulpit has trefoil arches with carved capitals on marble columns, and displays carvings representing the Symbols of the Evangelists. The font features a quatrefoil bowl supported on marble columns with carved capitals. A reredos with crocketed niches and a spirelet is also present. The five facets of the apse are articulated by full-height colonnettes. The interior contains stained glass from the 19th and 20th centuries.