St Materiana

south doorway of circa 1130 (Sedding).

2 Norman windows on north side of church and 2 on south.

Norman font.

The Norman church appears to have been of cruciform plan.

The north doorway, which was not accessible at time of survey , was dated by Sedding to 1080 and the south doorway some 50 years later.

The south transept, Sedding suggests was lengthened in the circa late C12, the transepts originally being of equal length.

The remains of impost mouldings suggest that a crossing tower had originally been planned although it is uncertain whether the tower was built, the present west tower being of circa late C14 or early C15.

In circa C14 the north porch was added and the south porch, possibly of the C14 was rebuilt in circa C18.

Sometime possibly in the C14 a small chapel was added on the north side of the chancel

in circa 1500 the rood screen was erected.

North porch: circa C14 the outer door with a very hollow chamfer to the almost round headed arch which has a double roll mould with cavello in between and large pyramid stops.

The inner north door arch (not accessible) has Norman label and impost mouldings with a plain tympanum (Sedding).

The medieval hinges which Sedding suggests are the only example of Norman ironwork which survives in Britain, have been reset and reused on the C20 door.

North wall of nave has a Norman window

The south wall has 2 windows, probably of C19 with a partly blocked Norman window which was altered when a circa C14 canopied recess was inserted in the Chancel.

There is evidence of part rebuilding below the eaves in the south transept which has a circa C14 decorated 2-light window with a cusped head and two 2-light windows with cusped heads in the east wall.

South door with circa early C12 arch, 1 shaft circular and the other octagonal with differing capitals.

Rood Screed circa 1500 with Perpendicular tracery.

Canopied recess of circa C14 on south side of chancel.

Font, Norman with 4 carved heads at corners, stout central shaft and 4 octagonal shafts.

St Julitta's font at west end of nave, possibly a Norman font bowl brought from St Jullita's chapel at Tintagel Castle (qv).

Reredos with reused circa C15 carved bench ends from nave and from parish church of St Teath.

Memorial brass of Joanna Kelly set in west wall of south transept, originally set in floor at east end of chancel, circa 1430.

Roman stone at west end of south transept inscribed IMP C G VAL LIC LICIN, previously used as coffin rest at lower church stile (qv. lychgate to south of Church of St Materiana) until 1888.

Minor in the county of Cornwall, 1970 Pevsner, N and Radcliffe, E The Buildings of England, Cornwall, 2nd edition 1970 Sedding, E.H. Norman Architecture in Cornwall, an handbook of Old Cornish Ecclesiastical Architecture, 1909