St Uvelus

in the C15 the nave (except for its north wall) and chancel were rebuilt and the south aisle with a south porch were added.

Development: The Norman north wall of the nave is probably all that remains of the late Cll or early C12 church.

The rebuilt north transept is likely to be of C13 origin and suggests a once cruciform plan church.

In the C15 the nave except for its north wall was rebuilt with an enlarged integral chancel and 6-bay south aisle and south porch.

The former west tower may have also been C15.

At the west end of the north side of the nave there is a small round-headed Norman window.

The south aisle has the original C15 Perpendicular windows, 5 on the south side of 2 lights with 2-centred arches and one on the east end of 3 lights, all with hoodmoulds.

The gable south porch has a moulded granite round arch doorway with panelled polygonal responds and a circa C13 moulded 2-centred arch inner doorway with convex stops.

The nave, chancel and south aisles have original C15 wagon roofs with moulded ribs and wall plates and carved bosses

The Norman north window is deeply splayed internally and has a dressed stone arch on which some painted mural decoration survives.

The 6-bay granite south arcade has moulded 4-centred arches, Pevsner A-type monolithic piers with bell-shaped bases and capitals with bands of low relief stylised leaf carving.

The arcade bay under the rood loft is half the width and has a low Tudor arch.

Good set of C15 carved bench ends and arcading with tracery reset on the C19 restored benches

the ends are carved with initials, Instruments of the Passion, shields etc. The choir stalls are circa early C20.

Only the wainscot of the rood screen survives and this has traceried panels, those in the south aisle are finely carved with Renaissance influence

The carved octagonal pulpit is early C17.

The carved wooden lecturn is mid to late C19.

The carved wooden reredos and altar are late C19 or early C20.

The simple hemispherical font bowl on a short column appears to be C18 but is thought to be Norman

the octagonal domed font cover with a finial is stored in the north transept.

In the north transept a C17 table which was probably the altar table.

The Royal Arms on the north wall of the nave is probably of Charles II, painted on board and overpainted in the C18.

There is no stained glass except for a small early C20 memorial window in the transept, by Jones and Willis of London.

Monuments: 3 good slate rural monuments in the north transept.

The best is that to Simon Leach, died 1672, which is carved in relief and has the inscription in an oval flanked by pilasters with large acanthus leaves on the shafts and his arms above flanked by vases of flowers.

The other two slate monuments are to William Trevethick who died in 1692/3 and another William Trevethick who died in 1731.

On the north wall there is a memorial to a Shackleton aircrew lost in North Borneo.

The memorial was moved from R.A.F. Changi with a font cover (that now in use) when the 205 Squadron withdrew from Singapore.