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Saint Piran

Church Town

Cornwall

C15 tower, chancel first rebuilt 1842, then chancel, nave, aisle and porch rebuilt in 1882 by Piers St Aubyn.

Architectural Features

Interior C19 arch-braced and wind-braced roof structures, C19 granite 6-bay arcade with steep 4-centred arches over inner doorway is resited Norman tympanum.

Fittings: painted letter from King Charles I at Sudely Castle, 1643 with painted coated of arms on the reverse side

octagonal granite font possibly late medieval but reorked in the C19

otherwise pews and other fittings, including pulpit over moulded granite base, date from the 1882 rebuilding.

Monuments: Classical marble wall monument to Benjamnin Sampson, died 1840 aged 70, of Tullimaar qv. and coloured glass in east chancel window to John Jose of Mellingey. coloured glass in a south aisle window to Wm.