St Petrock

west tower C14, substantial restoration of the 1880s.

Stone rubble with freestone and granite dressings, slate roofs, C19 crested ridge tiles.

The lintel of the inner doorway is probably C12

a lancet window suggests that parts of the nave may date from the C13 although the masonry has been thoroughly renewed in the 1880s.

The chancel of what was probably a small nave and chancel church of the C13 was rebuilt in the C14 when the west tower was probably added.

In the C15 the west window was inserted and the north side may have been refenestrated.

The east wall has timber verges to the gable and a 2-light C14 Decorated Polyphant window with a replaced mullion: 2 trefoil-headed lights below a plate tracery roundel slightly recessed with a C19 hoodmould and label stops below a relieving arch.

The south chancel window is a trefoil-headed lancet of the 1880s which may be a copy of a late C13 or early C14 lancet.

The nave chancel division externally is marked by C19 buttresses with set-offs to the north and south sides, a gabled stone ventilation pot on the ridge and a change in the design of the crested ridge tiles.

The tower has no west doorway and a late C15/early C16 uncusped granite 3-light west window with hoodmould and label stops.

The chamfered stopped jambs are probably recut or replacements of the 1880s, moulded imposts support a straight lintel which may be C13 or earlier in origin: short sections of cable moulding flank 3 recut stylized flowers in roundels with recut fleur de lis between.

A plain tympanum above contains a small rectangular block of volcanic stone carved with the crucifixion below a trefoil-headed arch

figure carving below similar arches is visible on the left and right returns.

The carving does not appear to be in situ and is probably C13 or C14.

Canted boarded 1880s waggon roof to the chancel with moulded wallplates, ribs and carved bosses.

Modest fittings: no reredos lectern, or pulpit.

Timber altar rail with moulded standards and spandrels of pierced carving.

Plain octagonal medieval font bowl, probably C14, on a later octagonal stem with a C19 font cover of 4 crocketted pierced brackets with a crocketted finial.

The old Norman font still holds water and could be used as a bird bath.

© Humphrey Bolton

2 stained glass chancel windows of 1888.

The saddleback tower and C14 east window are unusual survivals in the county, although the tower has been thoroughly rebuilt and the saddleback design may not be of medieval origin.