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St Martin And St Meriadocus

Penponds

Cornwall

Mostly late C15 in one build, but incorporating some fabric of smaller earlier C15 church

Architectural Features

The 5-bay north aisle has a plinth with moulded coping, a buttress between the 1st and 2nd bays, a Tudor- arched doorway between the 4th and 5th bays with 2 orders of moulding in a square-headed moulded surround with a hoodmould, 5 Tudor-arched mullioned windows each of 4 pointed arched lights with cavetto mullions, hollow spandrels, surround moulded in 2 orders, and hoodmould curved round the head

to the left of that in the 1st bay is an earlier and smaller window with a flat Tudor-arched head, 4 trefoil lights, moulded surround, and simple hoodmould

the added south aisle has large 5-light traceried east and west windows, and its south side has a gabled porch to the 1st bay with 4- centred arched doorway incorporating C15 semi-octagonal jambs with brattished caps, a sundial over the door lettered "Hora Pars Vitae" and dated 1793, and 4 windows each of 3 cinquefoil lights with Perpendicular tracery in the head.

Interior: 7-bay arcades to nave and chancel with Cornish piers, horizontal carved leaves on the caps, and 4-centred arches with cavetto and roll moulding (imitated by the added aisle)

side walls have dado made of fine late medieval carved bench ends

late medieval oak pulpit with carved panels and coat of arms

several fine wall monuments, esp.

in tower, large painted panels including Charles I 1643 letter to the County of Cornwall