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Silverton, EXETER, EX5 4HT

Dating from the C15th. The upper part of the shaft and the lantern head are missing. Grade II Listed.

A country lane heading up into the village of Silverton.

Newcourt Road with Singleton House on the right.

Churchyard wall, gatepiers and overthrow. Probably early 1860s. Dressed volcanic trap stone, some of it possibly re-used medieval material. Triangular section coping stones, the wall stepped down to east to descend the hill. Simple wrought-iron overthrow lacking its lamp.

There must have been a church in Silverton since the 13th century, or even earlier, as the list of rectors commences with Roger de Leycester in 1273, but nothing remains of this early building. The present church, dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, is constructed mainly from volcanic trap stone, probably quarried locally at Killerton, with a slate roof.

The parish church, dedicated to St Mary, is a building mainly of the 15th and 16th centuries; it has a nave, chancel and north and south aisles. The west tower has battlements, buttresses and four pinnacles. The north aisle was built with funds left by a rector who died in 1479; a rebus referring to a rector of 1519-49 is on the east respond of the north arcade. A new chancel, vestry and two western bays were added by the architects Hayward and Ashworth in 1860-63.

The parish church, dedicated to St Mary, is a building mainly of the 15th and 16th centuries; it has a nave, chancel and north and south aisles. The west tower has battlements, buttresses and four pinnacles. The north aisle was built with funds left by a rector who died in 1479; a rebus referring to a rector of 1519-49 is on the east respond of the north arcade. A new chancel, vestry and two western bays were added by the architects Hayward and Ashworth in 1860-63.

At the west end is a low, but impressive, two-stage tower with two diagonal buttresses on the western corners, a buttress where the tower abuts the porch, and a stair turret at the north-east corner. The tower is probably all that remains of the church that was built around 1450.

The parish church, dedicated to St Mary, is a building mainly of the 15th and 16th centuries; it has a nave, chancel and north and south aisles. The west tower has battlements, buttresses and four pinnacles. The north aisle was built with funds left by a rector who died in 1479; a rebus referring to a rector of 1519-49 is on the east respond of the north arcade. A new chancel, vestry and two western bays were added by the architects Hayward and Ashworth in 1860-63.

Looking down into the village of Silverton and towards St Mary's Church.