Architectural Features
reusing some C14 fabric, between 1878 and 1880 by JF Gould.
Delabole slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles.
EXTERIOR: C15 west tower with diagonal buttresses at the angles, rises in three tapering stages to a crenelated parapet with four obelisk pinnacles.
The west doorway is a granite four-centred arch with roll and hollow moulding and carved swirled stops at the base and a hood mould above.
Above this is a C15 three-light window, and the belfry has paired segmental-arched openings with louvres.
the external four-centred chamfered arch re-uses C14 fabric, and on the west side are two C19 cusped lancets.
The porch gable coping terminates in a cross finial with a niche and two carved quatrefoils below.
The south elevation has a restored C15 square-headed window to the left, then C19 Decorated-style windows of three lights, a lancet, a two-light window on the eastern return, and two-light window to the chancel.
The north aisle has a two-light C19 Decorated-style window and two restored C15 windows of four multi-foiled lights separated by a mullion, with a three-light C19 Perpendicular-style window at the west end.
INTERIOR: the oak wagon-style roofs to the nave, aisles and chancel are C19 with carved bosses by Harry Hems.
The floor of the church is laid with coloured quarry tiles, and the pews are pitch pine
The arcade to the north aisle is C14, rebuilt in the C19, and has octagonal piers with tall, pointed double-chamfered arches springing from chamfered capitals.
On the north wall the restored C15 and C19 windows have clear, leaded glazing.
Through an oak door from the organ chamber is a C19 vestry with a relocated C15 stained-glass window to the east featuring Yeo family heraldic crests.
At the east end of the south aisle is the Lady Chapel which has an embossed Russian-leather reredos and mid-C16 oak communion rail.
The window on the south wall is a memorial to Charles and Lydia Moase of Petrockstowe who died in New Jersey in 1871 and 1881 respectively.
The stained glass in the two south aisle windows is by Kempe studios.
it is dedicated on a brass plaque beneath to Reverend Woolcombe’s wife and daughter, Augusta and Elaia Between the windows is a marble memorial tablet to Samuel Bonifant , his wife Elisabeth , and their son Samuel At the east end of the nave, on the south side, is a five-sided oak pulpit with panels containing carved strapwork and brackets at the top
The font has carved arcading and flowerhead decoration on its east and west sides, and wheel panelling on the north side.
On the north wall of the tower is a substantial C15 granite pointed-arch to the tower stairs, and the west door is set within a taller opening with a basket-head arch.
The chancel floor is laid with encaustic tiles.
There are three red Devon marble steps up to the altar, which is on a red Devon marble plinth, set with C19 tessellated tiles beneath the altar.
The oak reredos is late C19 and depicts the evangelists flanking the entombment, surmounted by angels, and with a dedication below.
It is flanked by two pointed-head carved stone pilasters and rests on a row of stone corbels.
Against the south wall of the chancel is a pedestal piscina hollowed from a Norman cushion capital, set on a cylindrical stone shaft.
The altar rails are C19, brass and wrought-iron set with coloured glass beads.