Saint Mylor

Plan of C12 nave and chancel under one roof with C15 bell turret over west gable, C12 north transept, C15 north rood stair turret, C15 south aisle with chapel (not as long or wide as nave/chancel), C15 south porch.

Probably originally cruciform in the C12

south transept and wall removed and replaced by Caen stone arcade and touch rebuilding of north and east walls in the C15, and further alterations including re-roofing, resetting of windows and some rebuilding, plus sacristy extension circa 1870.

West gable of nave has old round-headed freestone doorway in the Norman style incorporating original C12 carved bases to outer jambs, rollmoulding to architrave, nook shafts to jambs and leaf carving to tympanum.

C15 3-light Caen stone Perpendicular window to gable over, and gable surmounted by large square embattled turret with C15 2-light Perpendicular window to each side, all with relieving arches.

Aisle gable has C15 Caen stone late Perpendicular 3-light window with granite sill.

Nave wall, partly rebuilt in the C15 has fine Norman doorway incorporating much original work: chevron architrave with roll and ball mouldings, nook shafts to outer jambs, moulded and enriched round- headed arch and flared patee-formee cross to tympanum.

To left and right are C19 windows in the Norman style.

Walling to far right is possibly C12.

North transept mostly rebuilt in the C15 has C15 granite 3-light Perpendicular window with hoodmould to north gable end.

Stair turret has original small C15 2-.light window cut from single piece of stone.

North wall of chancel has circa late C15 3-light Caen stone Perpendicular window with granite sill.

East wall has gable end of south aisle, set back to left and gable end of chancel, right, each with C15 4-light Perpendicular window.

South chancel window has old wooden casements and crown glass.

To left of window is C15 Caen stone doorway with basket arch.

Porch doorway circa late C15/early C16 is very good example of late Perpendicular work with panelled trefoil- headed octagonal jambs with moulded bases and moulded and carved capitals and round-headed chamfered ordered arch with ogee arched inner tracery.

In gable over doorway is further flared cross possibly part of Norman doorway tympanum but resited.

C15 moulded inner doorway, also Caen stone, has basket arch and square-headed hoodmould.

In the north wall of the north transept are 2 niches incorporating Norman fragments.

Several windows including north and east windows of chancel have C19 coloured glass.

Fittings include: Medieval font, circa late C15/early C16 rood screen base, C16 pulpit.

Painted letter near south door from Charles I at Sudely Castle, A priests chair of reused medieval fragments, painted Royal Arms of Queen Anne in the south transept

The font has an octagonal granite bowl, possibly C15, over a circa C13 turned base.

The reassembled oak carved panelled rood screen base is early Renaissance in style and vestiges of original paint survive.

2 C16 oak bench ends adjoin incorporated into the fronts of the choir stalls.

The oak pulpit has carved rails, stiles, muntins and panels and moulded cornice.

Monuments: Fine marble monument in south east corner of aisle chapel to Francis Trefusis, 1680, with Latin inscription within bolection moulded frame flanked by Corinthian columns on square bases and supporting dentilled cornice to segmental pediment with bead and reel and acanthus enriched cornice enclosing black tympanum against which and rising above is painted achievement.

The whole is standing on a shelf with moulded cornice supported by 2 carved angles, and standing on the shelf before the aedicule is a carved cavalier kneeling before a carved lectern.

Further wall monuments in south transept including: fine monument of 1695 to Richard Bonython of Carclew who died aged 45 and Honor his wife, given by daughter Jane who married Samuel Kempe of Penryn.

The inscription is framed by fluted pilasters, standing on shelf supported by consoles over shaped base with carved cherub, and surmounted by broken entablature and achievements flanking urn.

Square monument with shaped base with achievement and egg and dart and acanthus border framing inscription to: Samuel Humphry Pellew of Treverry, died 1821 aged 89, and wife Jane and daughter Jane

simple tapered and pyramidal headed over shaped base monument to Samuel Humphry Pellew, died 1854, aged 61