Church Of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1985. A Medieval Church.

Church Of St Mary

WRENN ID
fallow-ashlar-dale
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Country
England
Date first listed
7 November 1985
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary is a parish church with a 15th-century tower and porch, while the remainder of the church was rebuilt in the 1950s following a fire, incorporating some original medieval windows. The tower is constructed of granite ashlar, with a dressed granite porch, while the nave and chancel are of stone rubble with granite dressings, all under a slate roof. Prior to the fire, the church included a north aisle, which was lost during the rebuilding. The rebuilt nave and chancel now form a single, narrow volume under a single roof.

The west tower, nave, and chancel are the main components. The west tower is a good example of Perpendicular design, featuring three stages with tall, set-back buttresses, and an internal, north-west stair turret with slit windows. Octagonal corner pinnacles topped with crocketted finials adorn the tower. A chamfered rectangular opening is visible on the east face at the bellringers' stage, alongside two-light traceried belfry openings on each face. A moulded arched doorway, framed by a square-headed architrave with a hoodmould containing blind quatrefoils, provides access on the west side. Above the doorway is a three-light traceried window also with a hoodmould. The porch has a coped gable and a doorway mirroring the west door's design. The south side of the church features two granite ashlar buttresses with set-offs and three square-headed, cusped windows with hoodmoulds. The north side contains four arched, 15th-century, Perpendicular traceried windows with hoodmoulds, some of which are presumed to be re-used from the former north aisle, with some mullions replaced. Five ashlar buttresses are present on the north side with set-offs. The chancel has a coped east gable with a three-light, arched, cusped east window. The chancel coping continues along part of the wall that formed the east wall of the former north aisle. Three good 18th-century headstones are fixed to this east wall.

Inside, the unplastered walls and barrel roof with ribs date to the 1950s rebuilding. A good moulded granite tower arch springs from moulded capitals on shafts. A 15th-century octagonal font features a bowl supported on a truncated stem.

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