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St Phillack (St Felicitas)

St Phillack (st Felicitas)

Phillack

Cornwall

C12 font bowl, C15 tower, otherwise rebuilt circa 1856-1857.

Architectural Features

in the C15 extended with north aisle and west tower and in circa 1886 all except the west tower was demolished and rebuilt in Early English style to its present plan comprising C15 west tower, nave/chancel, north aisle and vestry at north east corner, south transept, south aisle and south porch.

Exterior: Virtually complete C15 3-stage embattled west tower with set-back corner buttresses to the lower stages and strings dividing the stages including a tall plinth.

In the angle between the tower and the south porch is a medieval tomb lid with cabled ornament (possibly pre-conquest)

in the porch gable is a reset chi-rho stone possibly C5 and in the north gable of the vestry is a C12 carved head.

Interior: Norman fragment incorporated into the north wall

C15 4-centred tower arch with moulded responds

earthenware roof floor tiles and arch-braced roofs.

C15 carved fragments in porch.

Fittings: C19 retooled Norman font bowl on C19 replica base

resited Norman alter slab with incised crosses

C12 or C13 tomb lid set into the east wall of the vestry, otherwise C19 fittings.

In the pulpit and organ frame are incorporated some C15 carved oak fragments from the former roof.