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St Nivet

St Nivet

Lanivet

Cornwall

Circa early C15, with later C15 additions.

Architectural Features

Slate roof with crested ridge tiles

Circa mid C15, the north aisle was added.

Late in the C15, the south aisle and south porch were added, and the east end of the chancel and both aisles were rebuilt.

Late C15 west tower.

The west doorway has moulded 4-centred arch with carved spandrels and square hood mould

The chancel has a C12 stone capital hollowed out for use as a piscina and moulded granite image stand.

both arcades are cut through for the rood screen.

Fittings: C19 pews and stone pulpit, chancel has C19 reredos and wooden screens to south and north.

C14 octagonal stone font in south aisle with elaborate tracery panels.

An inscribed pillar stone in the south aisle, inscribed in Roman capitals : ANNIC FIL

Fine mid C18 table in nave, the frieze carved with rosettes and masks, carved turned legs.

In north aisle, two sections of the late C15 wooden rood screen, with cusped panels and quatrefoil frieze.

Monuments in north aisle : slate plate to John and Richard Courtenay, with life-size bearded figure carved in high relief, 1632

marble monument on slate ground, to Roger Henwood, 1815, by Kitt of St Austell

marble monument on slate ground with draped urn, to Mary Cole Ffrench, 1873

marble monument on slate ground, to Mary Magor, 1852, by Edgcombe of Truro

slate monument with incised nowy head, with shield and cherubs, to John Wymond, 1725

C17 slate ledger stone with inscription round the border, unidentified.

1861: four marble monuments on slate ground, to Bridget Hoblyn, 1827, by J. Collins of Devonport

Glass: Late C19 stained glass.

Two windows in the north aisle have fragments of C15 stained glass in the tracery.