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Church of St Torney

A Grade I Listed Building in North Hill, Cornwall

  • North Hill Church

  • North Hill parish church interior

  • North Hill parish church interior

  • North Hill parish church font

  • St Torney: church of ashlar granite blocks; plain three-stage west tower, battlemented parapet, octagonal turrets, crocketed finials

  • St Torney: embattled south aisle & south porch

  • St Torney: nave & aisles with c15 ceiled wagon roofs

  • St Torney: slate monument to Thomas Vincent, d.1606; tomb chest with backplate

  • St Torney: tapered back panel from the monument to Thomas Vincent, d.1606, & wife Jane (Lampen); trailing vine decoration; figure of death with scythe & serpent

  • St Torney: top panel from the monument to Thomas Vincent, d.1606

  • St Torney: slate to Henry Spoure of Trebartha, d.1603

  • St Torney: slate monument to Richard Spoure, d.1653, as a baby; three patterned arches

  • St Torney: inscription from the monument to Richard Spoure, d.1653, as a baby of 3 months

  • St Torney: shields below the Richard Spoure memorial

  • St Torney: monument to Henry Spoure of Trebartha, d.1688 as a child, sister & parents

  • St Torney: Edmund Spoure of Trebartha

  • St Torney: Mary Spoure (nee Rodd of Oakehay)

  • St Torney: Henry Spoure of Trebartha, d.1688, aged 10

  • St Torney: Mary Spoure of Trebartha; sister of Henry

  • St Torney: inscription from the monument to Henry Spoure of Trebartha, d.1688

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Entry Name: Church of St Torney

Listing Date: 22 November 1960

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1249982

English Heritage Legacy ID: 432198

ID on this website: 101249982

Location: St Torney's Church, North Hill, Cornwall, PL15

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: North Hill

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: North Hill

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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