Episcopal Church Of St Mary The Virgin, Loirston Road, Cove Bay

The Episcopal Church of St Mary the Virgin, located on Loirston Road in Cove Bay, was built in 1864 as an Episcopalian Mission Hall and was consecrated in 1868. It underwent remodeling in the 1920s, which included the addition of dormer windows featuring commemorative stained glass panels around 1929. The church has a simple rectangular plan with an apsed west end, constructed from squared granite rubble with stuged granite dressings, some of which were replaced during the 1920s renovations. The roof is slated.

The east elevation, facing the sea, features a plain gable end that sweeps over the entrance located in a porch or vestibule to the left. The shouldered-arched doorcase, likely part of the 1920s remodeling, leads into the church. Above the door, there is a circular window with wooden tracery and leaded glass, along with an arched recess and hoodmould. A granite ashlar bellcote is corbelled at the apex and holds a small bell on an iron stand.

On the south elevation, there is a piend-roofed porch projecting to the left, with a door positioned to the right in the re-entrant elevation facing east. A two-light window from the 1920s is located to the south, and there is a wallhead stack above the porch wall. The 1920s porch projects to the right, with a later addition, possibly a coal store, in the re-entrant angle. A windowless flank is situated between the two sections, and above it are two dormer windows from the 1920s, featuring three-light leaded glass and a steeply pitched slated piended roof.

The west apsidal end was altered in the 1920s, with a gable end that projects awkwardly from the piend roof of the canted end, topped with a weather-vane finial. There are two two-light dormers from the 1920s facing northwest and southwest. The steeply-pitched gable on the west side has two square granite panels set into the base and apex, each with incised cross details, likely dating from the 1920s.

The north elevation is blind but features two dormer windows, similar to the south elevation.

Inside, the church has a plain open timber roof. The chancel is decorated with a timber-dentilled cornice and dado, and the walls are subdivided by a later timber pilastrade, with original decorative painted panels that were boarded up in 1992. An open screen separates the chancel from the nave, featuring a strip panelled solid rail on the sides, topped by a heavy cross. The octagonal wooden pulpit has a panelled upper section. A rose window at the east end contains simple coloured glass from the 1920s, with the central panel recently replaced.