Description

SW 93 NW VERYAN PORTLOE

8/131 Portloe Church
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GV II

Church of England church, formerly lifeboat house. Rebuilt and extended circa 1890.
Slatestone with granite dressings and quoins and Delabole slate roof with gable ends.
Nave and chancel under one roof and narrow north aisle under lean-to roof. West front
has central doorway with original planked door within painted granite arch with hood
mould. Flanking pointed windows rising to higher level with linked hood moulds. 2-
light wooden windows with trefoil heads and cusped tympanum arches with sidelights.
Cusped wooden wheel window in round granite frame with moulded border. Lancets to
aisle west window and south wall of nave. All windows with cusped leaded glazing.
Octagonal open wooden bellcote with steep lead roof surmounted by weathervane over
ridge near west gable. Exposed purlin and rafter ends to verge and eaves. Unaltered
interior has 4-bay arcade of round piers on octagonal bases and 4-centred arches;
incised stucco walls to simulate ashlar aand king post roof. Fittings including
polygonal pulpit with octagonal shaft and cusped arcade; octagonal freestone font on
square base. 2 carved heads to bowl suggest early date but tooling is late C19. Bell
is from the Dundella which sank in the Great Blizzard of 1891. (church guide).

Listing NGR: SW9374139425

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513815

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