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Church of St Martin by Looe

A Grade I Listed Building in Looe, Cornwall

  • St Keyne & St Martin: mother church of East Looe; cruciform in shape, mainly Perpendicular but includes earlier work

  • St Keyne & St Martin: early c14 lower stages of tower, upper part Perpendicular with battlements & pinnacles

  • St Keyne & St Martin: nave with standard Cornish piers; c15 ceiled wagon roof; Pinwill pews & rood screen

  • St Keyne & St Martin: detail of c15 ceiled wagon roof; tree-ring dating suggests 1453-1478

  • St Keyne & St Martin: detail from the Violet Pinwill rood screen, 1934

  • St Keyne & St Martin: monument to Walter Langdon, d.1667, & wife Rhoda

  • St Keyne & St Martin: Walter Langdon of Keverell, d.1676

  • St Keyne & St Martin: Rhoda (nee Martin of Linridge), wife of Walter Langdon of Keverell, d.1676

  • St Keyne & St Martin: inscription from the monument to Walter Langdon of Keverell, d.1676

  • St Keyne & St Martin: coats of arms from the monument to Walter Langdon of Keverell, d.1676

  • St Keyne & St Martin: slate memorial to Philip Mayowe, d.1590

  • St Keyne & St Martin: backplate of slate memorial to Philip Mayowe, d.1590

  • St Keyne & St Martin: part of verse from the slate to Philip Mayowe, d.1590

  • St Keyne & St Martin: First World War memorial pew depicting a dying soldier in the midst of battle looking up to the cross

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Entry Name: Church of St Martin by Looe

Listing Date: 19 March 1951

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1282854

English Heritage Legacy ID: 376361

ID on this website: 101282854

Location: St Martins Parish Church, St Martin, Cornwall, PL13

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Looe

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: St Martin with St Nicholas, Looe

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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