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Saint Just

Saint Just

St Just-In-Roseland

Cornwall

C13, C15, restored 1872 and C20 vestry.

Architectural Features

Slatestone with granite tower buttresses, C15 windows and doorways.

C15 tower of 2 stages has weathered diagonal corner buttresses, string dividing stages and under parapet with battlements.

North wall of nave, contemporary with tower has 2, C15 3-light Perpendicular windows with C20 boiler house between with lean-to slate roof and rubble stack.

Transept probably incorporating some C13-C14 walling has C15, 2-light, Perpendicular window to west and north wall.

North wall of chancel, C13 has C15, 2-light window with round headed lights, left and C15, pointed doorway right.

East window in south aisle gable has original C15 frame but C19 freestone tracery.

South wall of south aisle is entirely C15 complete with 1, 3-light Perpendicular window to left of porch and 5 to right.

South porch, also C15 has fine granite doorway with trefoil headed panels on engaged octagonal jambs with moulded bases and capital as responds to ordered 4-centred almost rounded arch with cusping mostly broken away.

Porch has surviving C15 oak waggon roof with moulded ribs and purlins, carved wallplate and central boss.

Old carved plaster fragment set into wall plaster.

Chancel has thicker walling surviving from C13 and contemporary trefoil headed piscina to south in arcade respond.

Also, now headed, painted panel of The Lords Prayer 1693 beside south doorway.

Fittings of C19 pine pews with scrolled and carved bench ends

polygonal pulpit with engaged shafts to angles dividing painted trefoil headed panels and C15 Perpendicular octagonal granite font with quatrefoil panels.

Brass of priest on east wall of aisle is either that of Perys d. 1504 or Jeffrey 1529 both Rectors of the parish.