Saint Manacca

Tower with pointed doorway probably begun C14, completed C15, north aisle C15 and vestry C19.

Pointed arched west doorway with hoodmould and carved heads as stops

C15 Perpendicular 2-light window with trefoil headed lights and quatrefoil tracery over.

North aisle has C15 3-light windows arched with tracery to gable ends and flat-headed to north wall, all with cinquefoil headed lights and latticed leaded glazing.

C18 and C19 wall monuments left of stair: Lawrence, son of Richard and Mary Polwhele.

South wall has south transept gable end projecting at middle, Norman doorway left of transept C15 2-light window left of doorway (similar to those of north wall)

2 C13 lancets to right of transept.

South gable of transept has C15 2-light arch window like those of tower

reset C13 lancet to east wall.

The lower parts of the south wall are C12 and from the left-hand corner grows a very old fig tree.

The south doorway is in situ up to impost height but rebuilt above using the C12 carved voussoirs

Interior 6-bay C15 granite arcade between nave/chancel and north aisle with standard A (Pevsner) piers and 4-centred arches springing from moulded capitals.

Carved C12 impost stone reused as quoin in opposite corner.

Circa C13 stoup with pointed granite and elvan arch east of south doorway and pointed arched piscina to south wall of chancel and another with pyramid stops to east wall of transept.

C19 open waggon roofs with the narrower roof over the chancel carried on moulded C15 granite corbels at the north side.

Coloured clay tile floor.

Fittings: Round granite font possibly late medieval, copy of Norman original

painted letter of thanks from Charles I, while at his camp at Suddely Castle, 1643

C19 oak pulpit incorporating carved fragments of the C15 waggon roof, and other C19 fittings.

Richard Polwhele, vicar of Manaccan 1794-1822, is well known for his histories of Devon and Cornwall, (monument to his son Lawrence on north wall)