Description

EGLOSHAYLE WASHAWAY
SX 07 SW
4/39 Church of St Conan

II

Church. Dedicated to St Conan. 1883. Built to a design by Bishop E.W. Benson.
Snecked local stone rubble with granite dressings and slate roof with gabled ends and
sprocketted eaves. Parapet coping at east end of chancel.
Plan: Nave and chancel with north transept, vestry on north side of chancel and
south porch. A gabled bellcote on the exterior marks the distinction between th nave
and chancel. Gothic style.
Exterior: Cusped heads to lancets lighting the north and south walls of the nave and
chancel. 3-light chancel window with 2 mullion and transom windows with cusped head
flanked by 2 lancets at the west end. The gable porch has a chamfered granite
shouldered arch.
Interior: Not accessible. The font is illustrated by Sedding and was probably
brought from the rectory garden at Lanteglos-by Camelford: possibly Saxon in origin
with a round bowl, cable bands decorating the shaft on a later C19 base. The C16
carved timber pulpit was brought back from Germany by Sir William Molesworth in the
early C19 and presented to the Church in 1928.
Colquitt-Craven, Joan Egloshayle Church, Wadebridge, 1986
Sedding E H Norman Architecture in Cornwall. 1908 Plate XXXVI, pp 96-97

Listing NGR: SX0356570014

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Conan's Church at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7592878

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