Description

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

External Links

• St Mary's Church, St Mary's at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7594425

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings