Church of St Mary Magdalene

A Grade I Listed Building in Launceston, Cornwall

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St Mary Magdalene, Launceston
St Mary Magdalene, Launceston
St Mary Magdalene: large c16 town church best known for its external carving in granite by Henry Trecarrel between 1511 & 1524
St Mary Magdalene: c14 west tower with higher stair turret; c16 ornamentation includes heraldry, stylised foliage, pomegranates; windows flanked by ornamented buttresses
St Mary Magdalene: c16 south porch with carving including St George fighting dragon & St Martin dividing cloak
St Mary Magdalene: nave with arcades of slender piers with four groups of three attached shafts; modern roof & Pinwill screen of 1911
St Mary Magdalene: detail of the rood screen; designed by Sedding, executed by Violet Pinwill, 1911
St Mary Magdalene: Violet Pinwill south parclose screen, 1913; flowers, fishes & animals
St Mary Magdalene: pre-Reformation c16 wooden pulpit with original colouring
St Mary Magdalene: memorial to Sarah, d.1667, wife of John Ruddle
St Mary Magdalene: Hugh Piper, d.1687, & wife Sibella, facing each other across prayer desk
St Mary Magdalene: Sibella (nee Parr of Exeter), d.1705, second wife of Hugh Piper
St Mary Magdalene: inscription from the monument to High Piper, d.1687, describing his loyalty to the royalist cause; below to his son Philip, d.1677
St Mary Magdalene: memorial to Granville Piper, d.1717, & Richard Wise, d.1731, their busts on top
St Mary Magdalene: memorial to William Crompton, d.1642; writer & vicar of Launceston from 1637 until his death
St Mary Magdalene: memorial to Ursula (nee Clarke), d.1724, wife of John Askham
St Mary Magdalene: provincial brass to lady, c.1620