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Latitude: 49.9153 / 49°54'54"N
Longitude: -6.3107 / 6°18'38"W
OS Eastings: 90658
OS Northings: 10584
OS Grid: SV906105
Mapcode National: GBR BXTX.06H
Mapcode Global: VGYC4.KDN9
Plus Code: 8CXMWM8Q+4P
Entry Name: Church of St Mary's
Listing Date: 12 February 1975
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1328823
English Heritage Legacy ID: 62482
ID on this website: 101328823
Location: St Mary's Parish Church, Hugh Town, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, TR21
County: Isles of Scilly
Civil Parish: St. Mary's
Built-Up Area: Hugh town
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall
Church of England Parish: Isles of Scilly
Church of England Diocese: Truro
Tagged with: Church building
ST. MARY'S
SV9010 CHURCH ROAD, Hugh Town
1358-0/8/41 (North side)
12/02/75 Church of St. Mary's
GV II
Anglican Parish Church. 1836-1838 for Augustus Smith, Lord
Proprietor of the Islands. Coursed granite ashlar; stone-coped
gabled slate roof. Plan of single-vessel chancel and 7-bay
nave with north tower. Early Pointed Gothic Revival style.
Plinth, cill course and offset angle buttresses and corbel
tables. Chancel has 3 east lancets with hood moulds. Similar
lancets to 7-bay returns. West front has 3 graduated lancets
above concave-moulded pointed-arched doorway with hood mould.
Tower of 3 stages with similar buttresses framing recessed
bays with similar corbel tables,lancets, paired lancets to
bell stage and clock. Interior: simple chamfered chancel arch
and some original panelling to chancel. Unusual seating with
nave arranged as 3 ranks of stalls on either side of central
aisle with some nave benches in 2 stalls and returned against
west gallery supported on brackets. Queen-post trusses
supported from arched struts on wall posts on granite
brackets; plastered ceiling divided into compartments by
joists and purlins. Coloured and gilded wooden lion from the
flagship of Sir Cloudesley Shovel, wrecked in 1707. East
window attributed to C.E. Kempe 1887; west window by A.C. Ward
1937; two north windows by Alfred Wilkinson 1967.
(P Laws: The Buildings of Scilly: Redruth: 1980-: 14;
Buildings of England: Pevsner, N and Ratcliffe, E: Cornwall:
London: 1951-1970: 209).
Listing NGR: SV9065810584
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