Description

TORQUAY

SX96NW BARTON HILL ROAD, Barton
885-1/2/321 (West side)
Parish Church of St Martin

II

Parish church. 1938 to the designs of NF Cachemaille Day.
Plastered on brick footings; slate roofs. Neo-Romanesque
style.
PLAN: Nave with west end baptistry; chancel with 3-bay aisles
and 2-bay south organ chamber; north-east tower; east end Lady
Chapel.
EXTERIOR: North side show front with no chancel/nave division.
Projecting tower, rectangular on plan, adjoins chancel;
lower-roofed Lady Chapel to east. Nave with parapet has 8
high-set round-headed aisle windows recessed behind a
colonnade of columns supporting brick arches. Round-headed
doorway to east of nave with recessed brick arch and original
2-leaf timber door with vertical roll mouldings which are
repeated as glazing bars in the fanlight. 2-leaf door at west
end of nave in lower-roofed west end baptistry block.
3-stage tower has 3 sets of triple round-headed windows on
north side, the upper set louvred belfry windows. East return
of tower decorated with massive relief sculpture of the
Crucifixion.
North side of Lady Chapel with ribbon of 5 round-headed
windows divided by columns. East end of Lady Chapel breaks
forward with one round-headed window. Blocked round-headed
doorways in set-back bays to left and right.
INTERIOR: Flat-roofed with no nave/chancel division. Aisle and
organ chamber bays with brick columns, star-shaped on plan.
Plain 3-bay arcade into baptistry, which is top-lit. Massive
baldacchino to sanctuary with 4 round-headed arches and gabled
roof on 4 columns with Byzantine capitals. Baldacchino gilded
with reliefs of censing angels. Low, solid chancel screen,
semicircular on plan. Wall between sanctuary and Lady Chapel
pierced by 3 round-headed glazed arches. Pulpit, round on
plan, projects out of north wall with access via concealed
stairs. Torquay marble font. Lady Chapel has massive gilded
corona lucis and abstract stained glass in east window.
Baptistry stained glass of 1959.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989:
P.850).

Listing NGR: SX9081666745

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502990

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)