Saint Winwaloe

West gable end of nave survives from the original church possibly pre 1400.

South aisle gable, right has circa late C15/early C16 2-light window with round-headed lights.

North wall of north aisle is totally C15 with original windows and 4-centred moulded arched doorway with C19 door.

East window of north aisle gable is C15 3-light Perpendicular with bulbous carved cusps, a more ornate form of those to north wall.

Interior Fine C15 waggon roofs to porch and south aisle with carved wallplates, under purlins and ribs, except plain purlins and ribs at west end of aisle.

Aisles have standard A (Pevsner) piers moulded and carved capitals and steep, moulded 4-centred arches.

The nave roof is C19 arch-braced and the north aisle roof also C19 is of the coupled rafter type but incorporating surviving C15 carved oak wallplate.

Some C19 coloured glass in the east windows.

Fittings: 2 fonts, one Norman of Pentewan stone with round bowl with stylized tree of life carving over round shaft and round moulded base, the other with granite octagonal bowl probably C15.

2 oak inner doors each incorporating 4 painted panels of the eight apostles and Perpendicular tracery over, reused from the rood screen and reputed to be made from the wreckage wood of "The St Anthony of Lisbon (or Padua) wrecked at Gunwalloe on 19th Jan.

The church contains two surviving parts of the early sixteenth Century Rood Screen, depicting the Apostles. The screen was made from wreckage of a Portuguese ship The St. Antonio (St. Anthony) of Lisbon, captained by Antonio Pacheco, the ship was wrecked at Gunwalloe on Saturday, 19th January, 1527, on the way from Lisbon to Antwerp, the wreck has now been located off Fishing Cove.

© Derek Voller

1527 en route from Flanders to Portugal. (church guide).

Parclose screens, stalls, benches and oak pulpit are C19 by Messrs.