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Church of St Mary the Virgin

A Grade I Listed Building in Broadoak, Cornwall

  • St Mary: small remote church close to Boconnoc; south side

  • St Mary: two-storeyed c13 or c14 west tower, battlemented with crocketed finials

  • St Mary: earlier transept on north side but no aisle

  • St Mary: nave & chancel in one with continuous roof; south arcade of c15 pillars & octagonal capitals

  • St Mary: original nave roof (though restored in 1926)

  • St Mary: boss in nave roof

  • St Mary: Perpendicular three light windows in the south aisle

  • St Mary: east window of 1878 in memory of George Matthew Fortescue of Boconnoc

  • St Mary: alabaster reredos depicting the Last Supper presented in 1911

  • St Mary: four panels surviving of the former rood screen subdivided by later twisted columns & castellated capitals

  • St Mary: one of the bench ends depicting St Sidwell with her scythe

  • St Mary: c16 figures of saints with their emblems

  • St Mary: more carvings showing the Instruments of Passion

  • St Mary: Norman font with four corner faces

  • St Mary: heraldic glass in south aisle window depicting Pitt (sable a fess chequy between three bezants)

  • St Mary: heraldic glass in south aisle window depicting Fortescue (azure a bend engrailed argent cotised or) & Ryder (azure three crescents)

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Entry Name: Church of St Mary the Virgin

Listing Date: 21 August 1964

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1140324

English Heritage Legacy ID: 60533

ID on this website: 101140324

Location: St Mary's Church, Braddock, Cornwall, PL22

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Broadoak

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: Bradoc

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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