Saint Marychurch
Saint Marychurch is located within Torbay local authority area. Historically it formed part of Haytor Hundred. It falls within Ipplepen Deanery for ecclesiastical purposes. The Deaneries are used to arrange the typescript Church Notes of B.F.Cresswell which are held in the Westcountry Studies Library. The population was 801 in 1801 6748 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 139 adult males signed the Protestation returns.
You can look for other material on the community by using the place search on the main local studies database. Further historical information is also available on the Genuki website.
Maps: The image below is of the Saint Marychurch area on Donn's one inch to the mile survey of 1765.
On the County Series Ordnance Survey mapping the area is to be found on 1:2,500 sheet 116/10 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 116SW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX919661. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX96NW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 031, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 202. Geological sheet 350 also covers the area.
Illustrations: The image below is of Saint Marychurch as included in the Library's illustrations collection. Other images can be searched for on the local studies catalogue.
Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
The ancient parish church of St. Marychurch (St. Mary) was rebuilt in 1861, except the tower. The latter was rebuilt in 1872 as a memorial to Bishop Phillpotts (1778-1869) who is buried in the churchyard. Phillpotts had built himself a palace at Torquay, where he preferred to live, which he called Bishopstowe (now the Palace Hotel). The church at St. Marychurch was greatly damaged during the 1939-45 war by enemy aircraft.
