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St Martin

Liskeard

Cornwall

Some reused Norman fragments, mostly C15 south chapel from 1428, south chancel aisle of 1430, additions to north from 1477, Norman tower repaired in 1675 of which the doorway and some Norman fragments are incorporated into the present 1903 tower by John Sampson of Liskeard

Architectural Features

3-stage embattled tower with offset corner buttresses has 3-centred arched doorway inscribed 1627, otherwise 1903 with Perpendicular-style features including large west window and paired louvred bell-stage windows with linked hoodmoulds under a machicolated parapet cornice.

Overall the church is 8 bays plus tower and except for C19 east windows to chancel and south aisle the windows are C15, most with original outer frame but with mullions and tracery partly or wholly replaced in the C19.

C15 tall standard A (Pevsner) granite arcades with 4-centred arches: 5 bays flanking the nave

Arches to choir and east end of south aisle spring from moulded responds over reset carved Norman heads.

C15 stone vaults to chantry chapels and chamfered rear arches to all windows.

Some carved fragments of C15 waggon roofs are displayed in the Lady Chapel.

Fittings: Norman font bowl set in E wall as stoup

C15 piscina to S aisle

C16 piscina to N aisle (E end)

C16 font with large Gothic-style font cover of 1917

beautifully carved octagonal oak pulpit of 1636 by Peter Short

early C20 Gothic-style choir stalls, memorial parclose screens 1897

memorial benches with ends carved in C16 style to Lady Chapel

freestone reredos with blind traceried panels and memorial windows with coloured glass to E end and to S except for one and to W end.

Monuments include: resited chest tomb lid under reredos to Thomas Johnson d. 1666 aged 57

monument to Dorothy, wife of Richard Roberts, Mayor of Liskeard, d. 1697

marble, slate and freestone aedicule with crest to S wall of Lady Chapel to John Trehawk, d. 1710 aged 32 and several wall monuments to chantry chapels including marble by Captain Thomas Byam Martin and officers of HMS Implacable to the memory of Lieutenant Joseph Hawkey, d. 1809 aged 23