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St Nectan

Architectural Features

The transepts were probably added circa 1508 when the church was largely rebuilt, west tower 1731, south porch probably also C18

Exterior: squat square embattled 3 stage tower, simi-circular head bell-chamber windows which are probably reused C16 material, large weathered offset at plinth level, smaller offsets between first and second and second and third stages.

South transept with simple semi-circular headed window with 2-light granite tracery, probably renewed 1897 when the present stained glass was inserted.

Inner doorway in a C16 moulded stone frame.

Towards the east end a larger number of good C17 and C18 memorial slabs inset into the floor.

Under the tower a late C19 tile pavement.

Nave and chancel continuous under a C16 wagon roof with moulded ribs and carved bosses, 5 towards the east end with gilding and colouring remaining, above each transept arch a section of richly-carved cornice, again with colouring and gilding surviving.

C19 wagon-roofs to the transepts with tongue-and-groove board, though the wall plates are earlier at the tops of the walls, probably C16.

Rood screen, a composite structure may be as early as early C14 (Hoskins)

The lower panels have been embellished by the addition of 3 carved C15 bench ends.

The cornice of the screen appears to have been added in the C16, 3 richly carved friezes set one above the other.

Of circular font on a C11 circular plinth, plain without carving.

Polygonal pulpit made up of C16 carved panels, reassembled to their present form in the C18, repaired in the C19 when a new base and steps up were added

the C18 pulpit cornice black- painted with gilded lettering: "Where there is no Bishop the people perish Dror XXIX V 18".

Reader and bench made up pieces of carved bench end of C15 with poppyheads, also some C16 or early C17 carved panels with semi-circular heads.

West end of nave with three C15 or C16 pews.

Carved Jacobean lectern.

Decalogue plaques painted by Rev. Erisey John Porter, vicar, 1903 with large figures of Christ and Mary Magdalene.

East window of the Crucifixition of 1925 in C14 style.