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St Mary, Marystow, Devon

Location
(50°37′29″N, 4°12′50″W)
Marystow
SX 435 829
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Devon
now Devon
medieval Exeter
now Exeter
medieval St Mary
now St Mary
  • Hazel Gardiner
16 September 2005

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Description

The church has nave with S porch, chancel, N aisle and N arcade of six bays extending the length of the nave, and W tower. There is also a shallow two-bay chapel on on the S side of the S aisle, level with the chancel. The original 12thc. church probably had nave and chancel, and the head of a plain, blocked round window is visible at the W end of the nave. Historic England suggests that the masonry of the S wall may indicate that there was a 13thc. transept and that the church may have been cruciform in plan in the 13thc. with the chancel remodelled in the 14thc. (English Heritage Listing: 1326319) The N aisle and tower are 15thc. The shallow chapel at the E end of the N arcade was originally 15thc. but added in the 19thc. Romanesque sculpture survives on the label from a reset section of a 12thc. doorway, above the current S doorway, and on the font. The church is constructed of shale and granite.

History

There is no record for Marystow in the Domesday Book.

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Furnishings

Fonts

Bibliography

F. Arnold-Forster, Studies in Church Dedications: or, England's patron saints, London, 1899, 198.

Pevsner and B. Cherry, The Buildings of England: Devon, 2nd ed., London, 1989, 564.