Church Of Our Lady And St Patrick And Adjoining Presbytery

TEIGNMOUTH

SX9473 GLENDARAGH ROAD 25-1/5/152 (North side) 29/07/83 Church of Our Lady and St Patrick and adjoining presbytery

GV II

Roman Catholic church. 1854 by Charles Hansom. Squared rock-faced grey Plymouth stone with cream freestone dressings and belfry. STYLE: Middle Pointed. PLAN: Rectangular aisled plan. EXTERIOR: chamfered capping to the rock-faced plinth. The coped gable to the south front with a restored fretted cross, has a large circular window of 8 trefoiled circles surrounding a central circle with 8 daggers to the tracery. The coped gabled central porch has a pointed arch, with a large quatrefoil to the tympanum, over a flight of steps flanked by leaded lights to arcades of pointed arches on stepped plinths. To the south-east corner is a forward-facing off-set buttress crowned by a niche, gabled at eaves level, with a heavy square crocketed finial above. To the left of the porch is an octagonal tower to the belfry with leaded lancet windows. Each facet is gabled with trefoil-headed openings flanked by colonnettes on a moulded plinth. The right return (east) has 4 gables each with a 2-light pointed-arched window and steeply weathered sills. A lower similar 5th bay toward the north end, possibly a vestry is probably later. In the angle of the south porch and the 1st gable is a canted set-back range with circular cinquefoil stained-glass windows to south and east and a hipped roof flattened at the eaves, to the nave. The north chancel end is a canted bay with a 3-light window to the north flanked by 2-light windows under a hipped roof with a wrought-iron finial. The left return (west) has clerestory windows and a low gabled block with a 3-light window to the left return. The presbytery attached to the rear left is similar in style with C20 additions. INTERIOR: 4 bays; a 5-sided apse with a lower Lady Chapel to the right and a sacristy to the left; a former baptistery to the right (south east) of the door; organ loft and gallery over door with stop-chamfered panelling and supporting posts. Round columns with chamfered pointed arches, with elaborate foliate capital to demi-column above pulpit. Octagonal pulpit with trefoil arches with carved capitals on marble columns and Symbols of the Evangelists. Font has quatrefoil bowl supported

on marble columns with carved capitals. Reredos with crocketed niches and spirelet. The 5 facets of the 3-window apse are articulated by full-height colonnettes. C19 and C20 stained glass. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Devon: London: 1989-: 797).

Listing NGR: SX9434673192