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St Martin By Looe

St Martin

Cornwall

Norman north doorway, and much other fabric, enlarged C13, C14

Architectural Features

C15, restored in 1882 and 1907.

PLAN: C12 nave, remodelled C15

C15 chancel possibly incorporating earlier fabric

C13/C14 tower remodelled C15 and C19

C15 south aisle in 2 phases incorporating earlier fabric

C15 north and south transepts

Rare C13/C14 freestone west doorway with nook shafts

original round-headed light to west end of south wall of nave, C15 windows to west and south walls of south wall: all 3-light windows with cinquefoil lights and square hoodmoulds

traceried west window and window left of transept granite, the 2 earlier C15 windows right of transpet blocked when monuments erected inside and wide buttress between and on right.

C15 chamfered pointed-arched south doorway, with evidence of former porch, now partly buried by churchyard.

On either side of the porch is a C15 3-light window with 4-centred arched lights, the right-hand window with C19 square hoodmould.

C15 3-bay arcade with standard A (Pevsner) granite piers between nave and south aisle and earlier C15 2-bay arcade leaning to south and propped against west wall of transept for lateral restraint at time of survey

C15 waggon roofs with carved wall plates.

FITTINGS: square Norman front, (or possibly later copy, church guide), with the Tree of Life and panelled decoration, standing on reused probable C12 arcade pier base which is on square Norman font base with stoolings for corner shafts: 1612 Gothic Survial oak screen to chancel aisle and some oak bench ends of similar date, reused as wall panels, all by father of Walter Langdon

late C18 or early C19 octgonal Regency Gothic oak pulpit with pointed-arched panels, on granite base

remains of C14 piscina to east wall of chancel

C17 carved oak chair

oak lectern 1895

oak pews with carved ends in C16 style of 1923-48, by Miss Violet Pinwell of Plymouth

oak rood screen in late medieval style.

MONUMENTS: resited slate grave slab to Philip Maiow, an alderman and wealthy merchant of Looe who died 1590

large polychrome marble aedicule on south wall of chancel aisle to Walter Langdon (and his wife) who died 1676, plaster and marble aedicule 1676 to north wall of chancel.