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Church of St Mary

A Grade I Listed Building in Hennock, Devon

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  • St Mary: mostly mid c15 Perpendicular with earlier c.1250 Early English tower

  • St Mary: restored 1875; granite, unbuttressed west tower; embattled south porch

  • St Mary: view from the east showing Perpendicular windows

  • St Mary: interior with granite monolith Perpendicular piers, ceiled wagon roofs

  • St Mary: preserved ceilure above rood screen decorated with suns & stars, recoloured 1975-1982

  • St Mary: Perpendicular rood screen extending across nave & aisles (vaultings & cornices now gone); late c15 or early c16 paintings of saints

  • St Mary: saints from the c15 rood screen; St Peter (keys), St James the Less (club), St Paul

  • St Mary: saints from the c15 rood screen; St Andrew (saltire), St Thomas (spear), St Simon (saw), St Bartholomew (flaying knife)

  • St Mary: saints from the c15 rood screen; St Matthias (sabre), St James the Great (pilgrim’s staff), St Philip (loaves), St Jude (archiospicopal cross)

  • St Mary: saints from the c15 rood screen; St Catherine (wheel), St Dorothy (roses), St Erasmus (entrails on windlass), St Thomas of Canterbury

  • St Mary: saints from the doors of c15 rood screen; Thomas Schorne (boot), St Gertrude (mice)

  • St Mary: saints from the doors of c15 rood screen; St Helen (cross), St Apollonia (pincers & tooth)

  • St Mary: saints from the c15 rood screen; St Lawrence (gridiron), St Roche (plague spot), St Mary Magdalene (ointment), female saint (book & palm)

  • St Mary: saints from the c15 rood screen; St Stephen (stones), St Zita (rosary), St Peter martyr (knife in head), St Margaret of Antioch (dragon)

  • St Mary: saints from the c15 rood screen; Christ, Angel Gabriel, Lily pot & Blessed Mary

  • St Mary: saints from the c15 rood screen; probably donors in c15 costume

  • St Mary: medieval (c15) glass in north window featuring figures of seraphin

  • St Mary: memorial slab to Thomas Hyne of Abbotskerswell, d.1670

  • St Mary: memorial slab to Elizabet Yarde (nee Hody), d.1672

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Entry Name: Church of St Mary

Listing Date: 23 August 1955

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1166001

English Heritage Legacy ID: 84572

ID on this website: 101166001

Location: St Mary's Church, Hennock, Teignbridge, Devon, TQ13

County: Devon

District: Teignbridge

Civil Parish: Hennock

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Hennock St Mary

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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