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the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Nativity Of The Blessed Virgin Mary

Week St Mary

Cornwall

C14 south arcade, C15 aisles, late C15/early C16 porch

Architectural Features

tower, some chancel masonry looks C13.

Fine 3-stage, unbuttressed, battlemented west tower with band of carving on plinth and above and below each of 3 moulded string-courses.

Plinth carving similar to Jacobstow but with added variants: some mouchettes in roundels, Star of David, crosses, pot of lilies.

Similar carving below string-courses to other stages which have bands of lozenges above strings.

West door-way shallow moulded arch below square-headed hood mould, quatrefoils carved in spandrels.

South face is show front with elaborate 2nd stage niche with vine-carved jambs and 3-sided canopy with engaged crocketted pinnacle.

Inner door probably C14: deeply moulded polyphant with some evidence for unusual stops.

South chancel door with moulded triangular head possibly C14.

Unceiled waggon roofs to aisles with moulded ribs, foliage bosses and vine-carved wall plates, some late C19 renewal.

South aisle has flowers carved on ribs, north has vine carved on 3 east bays.

Font probably C16 granite octagon with carvings similar to tower decoration on each face.

Altered pulpit made up of panels of linenfold carving.

Simple moulded C13 piscina in chancel.

Good slate memorial to Humphry Sethick, died 1663 in vestry floor with inscribed angel.

Good slate memorial to Margery Gayer, died 1679 fixed to interior north wall.