St Uda

C15 north and south aisles and tower.

Plan and Development: The font suggests the Church has Norman origins.

Pre-Norman coped stone found in churchyard.

In circa C15 a 6 bay south aisle and 3 bay north east aisle were added, probably at the same time as the west tower.

Circa C15 west window, partly restored.

Blocked C15 north door with 4-centred moulded arch and rood-loft projection to north aisle.

West window of north aisle with C19 Perpendicular tracery and 4-light chancel window with C15 surround and tracery, the mullion renewed in the C20.

South porch with 2-centred circa C15 arch with hood mould.

Nave, north and south aisles with original C15 waggon roofs

moulded ribs, carved wallplates and bosses with carved ribs in north aisle.

Late C19 and C20 furnishings, pulpit and screens.

Norman font

Royal coat of arms above south door and 2 funeral hatchments in south aisle

A hatchment is a rendering of a dead person's achievement (coat of arms) on a lozenge-shaped background. It would have been placed at their residence for a few weeks after their death and then transferred to the ceiling of the church (as here). The husband's arms to the left are the Sarrel (or Sarel) family (Per chevron argent and azure three garbs counterchanged) of St Tudy and the wife's to the right seem to correspond to the Harvey (or Hervey) family (Gules on a bend argent three trefoils slipped vert). The celestial cherub at the top and all-black background colour indicate that the husband predeceased his wife. See: Burke's General Armory, 1884 edition, page xxi (available on archive.org) for more.

© Bill Harrison

Pre-Norman 'Coped Stone' in south porch

is like a coffin lid with a hog-back shaped top carved with interlacing and foliage scrolls and having blind arcading on the sides.

Memorials: Humfridi Nicholl with effigies of parents and children in shallow relief and inscriptions in Latin and English

Antony Nicholl in marble and stone, erected in 1681 by wife Amy

Phillippa Silly of Trevelver 1669, daughter of Humphry Nicholl

memorial with 4 figures carved in shallow relief with shields above, probably in memory of Alice, wife of William Reskymer who died circa 1563-4.

C19 and C20 memorials to Onslow family (qv Hengar).

Glass: East window of chancel to John P. and E. A. Moyse-Magor of Lamellen (qv).

Remains of earlier glass in top lights of east windows.