St Petroc

C15 and restored in 1875 by J.P. St Aubyn.

Plan: The church possibly has Norman origins with a Norman font and some early masonry surviving in the north wall of the nave.

In circa C13 the nave and chancel were probably rebuilt and a north transept added.

The west tower is also probably C13, remodelled in the C15 when the west door, plinth and west window was inserted and the battlemented parapet added.

Circa C15 west door arch in rectangular surround with hood mould

North wall of nave and north transept largely unrestored with circa C15 1-light and 2-light greenstone lancet windows.

The waggon roof structure of the chancel and north transept incorporates some circa C15 timbers

C19 pulpit with carved panels illustrating scenes from the life of St Petroc.

Circa C16 Flemish reredos comprising fine carved triptych flanked by reset carved bench ends.

Norman font of greenstone with square base and round shaft.

2 memorial windows in chancel and tower by Clayton and Bell.

Memorials: In north transept memorial to Samual, son of John Roscarrock, 1640 with arms

THOMAS RICKARD CW + IP + CO 1773 and medieval bell with coat of arms.

Polsue, J. Lake's Parochial History of the County of Cornwall 1872, reprinted 1974 Sedding, E.H. Norman Architecture in Cornwall, a handbook of Old Cornish Ecclesiastical Architecture 1909 Sites and Monuments register, Truro, Cornwall.