Description

TQ 65 NW PLATT CHURCH ROAD
2/12 (east side)

25.8.59 Church of St Mary
GV
II

Anglican Church. 1841-42 by Whichcord and Walker. Early English in detail, though
Perpendicular in form. Coursed rubble stone with some ashlar dressings, slate roofs.
Cruciform church with crenellated west tower, nave, chancel and transeptal chapels.
Octagonal stair-turret on north-east corner of tower. Door in moulded, columned
opening in west face of tower with 3-light window above transepts and chancel gabled
with parapet-copings. Three-light east window, 2-light transept windows, all with
simple geometrical tracery. Three-bay nave with lancet windows. South door in centre
of south transept and with moulded arched surround. Interior. Timber roof with very
widely projecting hammer beams, decorated by large circles in the spandrels,
dramatically crowding the crossing with flying arches.

Listing NGR: TQ6220257039

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26499735

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)