St Maddern

C15, porch 1887, many windows renewed or partly renewed circa late C19.

Plan: partly C14 nave/chancel under 1 roof, C14 or earlier south aisle, C14 west tower, C15 north aisle and C19 porches.

2 C15 windows right of south porch with Norman carved heads over (one with double head), otherwise the windows are C19 or have C19 mullions and tracery.

C14 inner south doorway

similar north doorway resited in the C15.

Interior: C14 and C15 6-bay arcades dividing nave from the aisles: circa early C16 waggon roofs with carved bosses with old paint, circa early C14 sedilia and piscina in the chancel and rood stair in south wall.

Fittings: C12 font

medieval inscribed stone

carved alabaster panel from C14 reredos

5 medieval bench ends, 2 later bench ends and 1 copy

C17 tower screen copied from C14 fragments.

Several memorial windows.

Monuments: brass to John Clies, merchant, twice Mayor of Penzance 1623

slate tablet to John Maddern, mayor of Penzance died 1621, with figures in Elizabethan costume

fine marble aedicule to the Rev. Thomas Paul died 1716 and Rev. Duke Pearse, died 1712, with carved effigies

also memorials to the Rev. John David Cox, Dr Walter Borlase and several others of interest.

High up on the walls are funeral hatchments to principal local families.