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St Melor

South Hill

Cornwall

South aisle and south porch of late C15, built after the rest of the church.

Architectural Features

Interior of the porch has slate floor, wagon roof of C15 with moulded ribs and purlins.

Plank door with strap hinges, probably of circa C16.

Nave has 8-bay wagon roof, north and south aisles both 9-bay, all of C15 with bosses and carved wall-plates.

5-bay north and south arcade, with Pevsner A-type piers with carved abaci and 4-centred arches.

Fittings: C19 pews in chancel and C19 wooden pulpit in nave.

Font in nave, in polyphant stone, C13, with square top with narrow pointed blank arcades.

Wall paintings in the south aisle, the Seven Corporeal Works of Mercy, of late C15 Monuments in nave: slate ledger stone to Frances Hooper, 1704

slate ledger stone to William .., 1633.

slate monument with pilasters and entablature surmounted by rounded pediment with mask and pair of crowned skulls, with Latin inscription to Edward Kneebone, 1685

marble monument with draped urn, to Richard Salteen, 1708.

Glass: All windows lattice glazed.

Fragments of C15 glass in 2 windows of the south aisle and 2 windows of the north aisle.