Church of St Mary the Virgin, Throwleigh

• Grade: I
• Date: small part late 13th or early 14th century; mostly rebuilt 15th century; north aisle 16th century; renovated about 1945
• Material: granite rubble and ashlar, slate roof
• Historic England list entry: 1168195

St Mary the Virgin at Throwleigh is mostly a 15th-century rebuild of a church of which a small part may be late 13th or early 14th century. The entry suggests the rebuilding may have been by Thomas Courtenay, patron in 1453, and the porch spandrel carries crude initials TC. The north aisle is 16th century, and Herbert Read renovated the church about 1945. It is granite ashlar with a tall three-stage tower.

Historic England picks out two features: the south priest's doorway, unusually ornate, with stylised ferns carved on its surround, and the Easter Sepulchre in the chancel, described as unique. The porch has a brass sundial of 1663, placed there in 1913. The low chancel screen is a 20th-century piece based on part of the original, which was dated 1544.

The listing calls it a good moorland church with some unusually good 15th and 16th-century detail. Not the same church as St Mary the Virgin, Holne.

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