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St Olaf

Poughill

Cornwall

C13 font, C14 north aisle, C14 and C15 south aisle, C15 south porch, chancel may be of C14 origin.

Architectural Features

C15 west tower, C19 vestry.

C12 foundations said to have been discovered during C19 restoration.

The C14 church probably had a north chancel chapel and may have had a north aisle.

North aisle has 3-light C19 Perpendicular east window under hoodmould, 1 label stop may be C15, 3 aisle windows 3-light granite Perpendicular under hoodmoulds.

2-light C14 Decorated greenstone window to west end of north aisle.

West wall of tower above plinth and below moulded string is carved with quatrefoils (q.v. Jacobstow and Week st Mary).

Moulded arched granite west door under square hoodmould has carving in the spandrels.

Carving in the spandrels.

Porch roof unceiled C15 waggon with carved ribs, bosses and wallplate.

Moulded granite arched inner doorway under square hoodmould, carving in spandrels.

Good probably C16 studded door has loop drop latch, strap hinges with simple scrollwork decoration and massive wooden lock case.

Capitals carved with trefoils in roundels.

Capitals are carved with trefoil-headed blind arcading.

No chancel arch, nave/chancel division marked by good C15 ceilure, 3 of the 4 panels retaining their decorative carving.

Some of the paintwork on the ribs may be medieval ancient colour.

Chancel roof C15 unceiled waggon with bosses and carved wall plates.

Aisle and nave roofs C15 ceiled waggons with bosses, carved ribs and wallplates.

Square C13 granite font on replaced base and corner shafts in similar to that at Poundstock and has 2 orders of pointed arched blind arcading.

Late C19 5-sided drum pulpit with pierced traceried panels is supported on stem with curved braces.

Communion table of late C16 origins enlarged in 1941 has turned legs.

Piscina in chancel probably C14.

Circa early C16 bench ends, probably from the same atelier as those at Kilkhampton and Launcells, have border carving of unusual design, blind tracery and carvings of monograms, grotesques, armorial bearings, including the Grenville Arms, and instruments of the Passion.

Large Royal Arms of Charles II in plaster on north wall.

2 large wallpaintings, probably late C15 in origin but entirely repainted by Frank Salisbury, one on north wall, one on south.

C17/18 wooden gate of former lych gate, now in west tower, a grillage pattern with chamfered rails and scrolled stiles with later iron barbed capping.