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St MARY'S CHURCH, DEVONPORT

St Mary's Church is situated in James Street, Devonport.

This ecclesiastical parish was created on August 27th 1846* from the civil parish of Stoke Damerel. 

The foundation stone of the Church was laid on Easter Tuesday, 1850, by Mr E St Aubyn.  The building is of stone built in the Middle Pointed style.  It cost £6,000 to erect and was designed by Mr J Piers St Aubyn. 

St Mary's Church was consecrated on June 15th 1852. 

An early picture of St Mary's Church, Devonport, Plymouth

It consists of a chancel, nave, ailses, south porch and a tower with spire, at the south-west angle.  The tower is 150 ft in height and contains one bell.   The nave is separated from the aisles by an arcade, supported on shafts of black marble from Levant, in Cornwall.  The west window is a memorial to the Reverend Alfred Swain, the second vicar of the church.  When built it could accommodate a congregation of 800, all free and unappropriated.

The organ was rebuilt in 1913.

Strenuous efforts were made in 1956 to save the Church from demolition but in February 1958 it was announced that it would be demolished and the parish merged with that of St Aubyn.

*  Kelly's directories quote September 22nd 1846.

 

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