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St Ladoca

Grampound Road

Cornwall

Parish church C15 , restored by G E Street for Canon Wise 1864.

Architectural Features

Nave has 2 C19 buttresses and 1 C15 perpendicular granite window which is similar to all other C15 ones.

Transept to nave is C15 and has C15 window in gable.

Reused C15 window in east wall.

Windows are C15 with slightly taller one to left of porch.

Angel corbels support those over nave.

Unceiled C15 wagon roof has carved principal ribs and under purlins.

East window of south aisle has William Morris glass and west window which is later looks like Pre-raphaelite work.

Unceiled C15 wagon roof over with carved principal ribs, wall plates and under purlins.

Fittings include high alter frontal panels by Ed. A E Prynne 1897, alabaster reredos, C16 carved oak panels in rood screen, circular C19 pitch pine pulpit with cusped arcading on turned shafts and choir stalls of similar design.

The circular font is probably late Norman and of Catecleuse stone (Pevsner) has scalloped square base with plain turned shaft supporting bowl with a kind of cable moulding at bottom with palmettes in round panels surmounted by border with crosses.

Slate on west wall of nave to William Randall 1657 and John Randell 1665.

In porch over inner door is freestone head (possibly Norman) a granite piscina or font to right of door, village stocks for 2 people and a slate grave slab on east wall with carved skeleton, skull and crossed bones and hour glass to Nicholas Cornelius 1632.