---
title: "St Mary & St Julian, Maker"
description: "Located in Maker, Cornwall. Built c.1500, possibly incorporating earlier nave and chancel; major restoration 1874. Diocese of Truro. Grade I. Perpendicular style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Cornwall","Maker","Rame Peninsula","Grade I","Perpendicular"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-mary-st-julian-maker"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T02:14:34.942Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-07T20:34:22.800Z"
location: "Maker, Cornwall"
country: "England"
county: "Cornwall"
town: "Maker"
address: "Maker, Cornwall, PL10 1JB"
postcode: "PL10 1JB"
built: "c.1500, possibly incorporating earlier nave and chancel; major restoration 1874"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Mary","Julian"]
diocese: "Truro"
grade: "I"
style: "Perpendicular"
materials: "Coursed red sandstone rubble with granite dressings; chancel east wall random red sandstone rubble; granite ashlar tower parapet and buttresses; slate roofs"
website: "https://stgermansparishes.com/"
openingHours: "Daily opening from April to September from approx. 9.30am until 5.30pm. Keys held by the verger and churchwarden. Contact details in The Courier, the parish magazine."
parish: "Maker with Rame"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1140716"
gridReference: "SX 446 520"
accessNotes: "Level access throughout"
---

# St Mary & St Julian, Maker

St Mary and St Julian’s is a Grade I parish church standing alone on high ground on the Rame peninsula, Cornwall, in the Diocese of Truro and the parish of Maker with Rame: a Perpendicular church of about 1500 whose tower is a landmark over the Tamar estuary.

## Overview

Historic England lists the church (1140716, Grade I, 23 January 1968, formerly listed as Saints Julian and Macra). The listing describes a parish church of about 1500, possibly incorporating an earlier nave and chancel. A lead rainwater head on the tower is dated 1745; a porch sundial 1768. Eighteenth-century work replaced almost all early granite window tracery with wood. The major restoration of 1874 replaced granite windows, removed galleries including the Edgcumbe gallery, converted the north transept to vestry and organ chamber, built an outer south aisle as the Edgcumbe chapel, and re-roofed the church. The chancel east wall is random red sandstone rubble, possibly earlier; the rest is coursed red sandstone rubble with granite dressings. The three-stage west tower stands on a moulded plinth with set-back buttresses.

CRSBI notes a twelfth-century font related to that at Bodmin, brought from St Merryn. The church was given to Plympton Priory in 1121. A fourteenth-century chapel of St Julian, patron of ferrymen, stands near the Cremyll ferry road. The tower served as a naval signal station in the eighteenth century and Napoleonic Wars. The church is open daily from about April to September, 9.30am to 5.30pm; keys are held by the verger and churchwarden at other times.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1140716](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1140716)
- [St Germans Group Parishes](https://stgermansparishes.com/)
- [CRSBI: Maker](https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=7170)