St Petroc

EXTERIOR: much retooled or refaced in C19 but incorporating outer granite frames of C15 windows and some C15 tracery.

West end partly rebuilt in C19 when a Norman doorway was replaced by present 4-centred arched doorway

N tower contains Norman masonry to lower stage: small windows.

INTERIOR: C15 waggon roof to chancel aisle with 1471 date painted on, otherwise replaced in C19

FITTINGS: good quality C12 font with deep granite bowl on short shaft, slender corner shafts with busts of angels on capitals, decorated with carved foliage and scrolls, animals and trees-of-life

3 piscina including C15 octagonal cresset by S door

late C15 bench ends and rood screen panels incorporated into rood screen, some bench ends reused in choir stalls and desk

1932 reredos by Sir Charles Nicholson incorporating some original 1491 Mathley More Panels

carved oak pulpit with panels and later embellished base partly of choir stalls

lectern incorporating C15 carved oak misereres

C17 carved oak chair,

a fragment of C15 painted wood.

The Bodmin Casket, C12 of ivory is set into S wall of S aisle, possibly the casket in which the remains of St Petroc were handed back to the Prior of Bodmin in 1177.

MONUMENTS: a free-standing monument between chancel and N aisle to Thomas Vivian, one of the last priors of Bodmin d. 1533, of black Catacleuse stone and grey marble recumbent effigy on chest decorated with figures of the Evangelists, cherubs with shields

slate slab to Richard Durant d. 1632

another to Peter Bolt d. 1633, depicting his 2 wives and 13 children, others to Bernard Flamank 1658, Elizabeth Bernard and by Neville Burnard to Alice, daughter of William and Ann Webb of Altarnum, died 19.9.1833 aged 3 years 3 months

MEMORIAL GLASS: 1859 to John D Watkins (N wall of chancel aisle) d. 1846 aged 69 and his wife Loveday d. 1857 aged 78

windows dated 1880, 1898 and to William Robert Kirke d. 1868 aged 60, all to S wall of S chancel aisle and several windows to the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry including one over war memorial in N aisle and one to Captain William Henry Liddle, also 2 windows to W end.