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Church of St Uny

A Grade I Listed Building in Lelant, Cornwall

  • St Uny: looking out towards the Hayle estuary

  • St Uny: from the south; restored Perpendicular windows

  • St Uny: west tower with diagonal buttresses & pinnacles

  • St Uny: buttressed south porch

  • St Uny: nave looking east; Norman arch with round piers to north west; other piers are c14, square with four-demi shafts; c19 east window with c15 style tracery

  • St Uny: detail of Norman pillar with scalloped capitals

  • St Uny: detail of later c14 capital with horizontal leaves

  • St Uny: slate to William Praed of Trevethow, d.1620, wife Prudence (Pawley) & four children; flowers, sandglass & skull

  • St Uny: William Praed of Trevethow, d.1620, & family; name labels above each figure; right to left, William, Prudence, James, Jane, Alice & Mary

  • St Uny: William Praed of Trevethow, d.1620, & wife Prudence (Pawley)

  • St Uny: slate to Stephen Pawley, d.1635, wife Margery (Tresteane of Veryan), five sons & six daughters (their initials inscribed above)

  • St Uny: Stephen Pawley, d.1635

  • St Uny: Margery (Tresteane of Veryan) wife of Stephen Pawley, d.1635

  • St Uny: slate memorial to Hugh Pawley (grandson of Stephen), d.1721, & wife Judith, d.1698

  • St Uny: inscription from the slate memorial to Hugh Pawley, d.1721, & wife Judith, d.1698

  • St Uny: sarcophagus to William Praed, d.1833; banker & politician

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Entry Name: Church of St Uny

Listing Date: 4 June 1952

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1143403

English Heritage Legacy ID: 68953

ID on this website: 101143403

Location: St Uny's Church, Lelant, Cornwall, TR26

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: St. Ives

Built-Up Area: Lelant

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: Lelant

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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