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SW7834NE CHURCH HILL 580-1/4/42 (East side) 28/01/49 Church of St Gluvias

GV II*

Parish church. C15 west tower, otherwise much rebuilt and remodelled in 1883 by Piers St Aubyn. Granite ashlar, coursed dressed granite and granite rubble with freestone dressings; dry Delabole slate roofs with crested ridge tiles. Tower is coursed local rubble with granite and freestone dressings. Plan: C15 west tower with NW stair turret, north wall, east ends of north and south aisles; otherwise 1883 navel chancel, south wall and later south porch plus vestry extensions flanking tower. Perpendicular 3-stage embattled tower with angle buttresses and stair turret to NW corner; C15 pointed granite doorway with C19 planked door and strap hinges; C19 freestone 3-light traceried window over doorway and C15 two-light windows to upper stage of tower; strings dividing stages. North wall is 6 bays with buttresses dividing bays with C19 three-light traceried windows in C15 openings; C15 pointed arched moulded freestone doorway with square hoodmould with carved stops and quatrefoils to spandrels; many inscriptions and to other parts of north wall. Similar west window and taller 3-light projecting gabled windows to east ends of aisles flanking projecting chancel with large 3-light E window. South wall has porch to far left with pointed doorway with quatrefoils to spandrels and 5 bays with windows similar to those of W wall; 2 buttresses and round-headed priests doorway between right-hand windows. INTERIOR: C19 six-bay pointed-arched freestone arcades between nave and aisles, plastered or painted walls; C19 waggon roofs, the choir/chancel roof incorporating C15 carved ribs from former roof. East wall of N aisle has 2 niches, each with arcade of 3 pointed arches and pair of round-arched niches (possibly a very early feature resited or evidence that this wall is part of a very early structure). Other early fragments include C15 piscina in porch and pointed-arched aumbry to east end of south aisle. FITTINGS: C19 fittings include: octagonal freestone font, with quatrefoils, on granite base; octagonal oak pulpit on moulded freestone base; organ loft on 4 Tuscan columns to west end of S aisle; sedilia on 3 brackets to chancel; pitch pine pews with shaped ends, one pew with carved oak end inscribed: "This church restored AD 1882-3, Michael Jenkin Lavin, Mayor"; floor of reset slate headstones; brass lectern with eagle; 1841 painted boards recording bequests and benefactions of Richard Ludgie 1722-1733 and 1735, John Verran 1758 and Thomas Lukey 1612. MONUMENTS: many fine quality monuments including brass and slate to Thomas Killigrew 1484 with husband and wife, missing brass, probably sons, 6 daughters and shields. Large plaster and slate monument in 4 parts flanking and within jambs of east window of south aisle; east part as an aedicule framed by Ionic columns and surmounted by family crests, the 2 on right with original scrolled brackets with cherubs; left-hand panel to Samuel Pendarves of Roscrow d.1643, over extra panel to William, son of John and Bridget Pendarves; next panel to Grace, wife of Samuell Pendarves, d.1662 over later panel to Walter, son of John and Bridget, d.1663; next panel to William, also of Roscrow, d.1670 and last panel to Ann, his wife, d.1643. South wall: plaster aedicule with broken pediment and marble shelf on bracket with lion's head flanking cherub to Samuel Ennys of Ennys (now Enys, St Gluvias CP) 1611-1697 and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Samuel Pendarves of Roscrow, 1618-1705; marble and slate obelisk to Thomas Enys of Enys, d.1802 aged 30. North wall: slate aedicule with wigged bust and drapes between Corinthian columns to J Kempe, d.1711; marble cartouche with skull at bottom to John Collier Clerk d.1691 aged 3; and similar cartouche to William Worth d.1689 aged 55. MEMORIAL FITTINGS: large French mosaic reredos depicting saints as memorial to Archbishop Philpotts. MEMORIAL WINDOWS: E window of N aisle to Lilian Mary Plaice and Frederick Dennis Bruce, Vicar 1915-1927; E window of chancel to Louisa Philpotts d.1871; also E window of S aisle. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Cornwall: 1951-1970: 177).

Listing NGR: SW7873834662

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