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St Clarus

St Clarus

St Cleer

Cornwall

Norman origin, early C15, with substantial additions of late C15 and late C19 restorations.

Architectural Features

Slate roofs with ridge tiles, crested ridge tiles over nave and chancel.

Plan: Of the Norman church, one north door in the north aisle survives

nave and chancel with north arcade and north aisle probably of early C15, with alterations of later C15 with addition of the south aisle and south porch

later C15 west tower.

2nd bay from west has Norman doorway, with one order of colonnettes and a zig zag outer voussoir.

Interior of porch has late C15 wagon roof with central carved boss.

Nave and aisles have C15 ceiled wagon roof with moulded ribs and carved bosses, aisles have moulded stone wall-plates on outer walls.

Chancel has C19 wagon roof with angel corbels and C19 carved wooden chancel arch with angel corbels, C19 wooden rood-screen.

North doorway has 4-centred arched head with fleuron carving, chamfered jambs.

At the east end, squint to chancel, and irregular carved niche below the squint.

5-bay south arcade in blue elvan, the piers with a fillet on each side of the hollow moulding, with carved abaci and 4-centred moulded arches.

Fittings: C19 carved wooden pews and pulpit.

Font in nave, C13 Purbeck table-top type, with flat pointed blank niches on each side.

Royal arms of Queen Anne, dated 1708, oil on board, with bolection moulded frame, in south aisle.

C16 stocks and C19 plough in north aisle.

Monuments in chancel: marble tablet on slate ground, to John Jope, 1844

C17 and C18 ledger stones.

In south aisle: chest tomb with fine carved lid in slate, with 2 pairs of figures and emblems of death, to Robert Langeford, 1614.