Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Heritage listing

Details WEEK ST MARY WEEK ST MARY SX 29 NW 6/83 Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary 29.9.61 I Parish church. C14 south arcade, C15 aisles, late C15/early C16 porch and tower, some chancel masonry looks C13. Substantial restoration by James P St Aubyn between 1876 and 1881. Porch, aisle walls and chancel slatestone, polyphant and Ventergan rubble with granite dressings, tower granite ashlar, granite window tracery. Slate roof. Largely perpendicular church of nave, chancel, north and south aisles, west tower and south porch. 5-bay aisle arcades each with 2 bays to chancel. 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. Above door 3-light Perpendicular window with hood mould and band of lozenge decoration below sill. Plain statue niche to 2nd stage, 2-light belfry opening to belfry stage. North face, 2nd stage has sexafoil-headed niche below hood mould terminating in engaged finial, 3-light belfry opening and slit openings to light internal north-west stair. South face is show front with elaborate 2nd stage niche with vine-carved jambs and 3-sided canopy with engaged crocketted pinnacle. 3-light window to belfry stage. Further statue niche on east wall of tower. Tower battlemented with tall octagonal crocketted corbelled pinnacles terminating in crosses. Gabled south porch with moulded, granite, 4-centred, outer door arch carried on engaged shafts wit

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.