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Church of St Willow

A Grade I Listed Building in Lanteglos, Cornwall

  • Church of St Willow, Lanteglos

  • St Willow: approach from the south; c14 unbuttressed four-storey tower flanked by aisles; 1905 restoration by Sedding

  • St Willow: c17 south porch with scratch dial; lantern cross in foreground

  • St Willow: lantern cross with traceried faces

  • St Willow: c14 octagonal piers of Pentewan stone, simple bases & capitals

  • St Willow: c15 south aisle with wagon roof of moulded timbers

  • St Willow: early c13 font of Pentewan stone bowl & Purbeck stone base, stiff leaf foliage

  • St Willow: tomb chest on canopied recess to Thomas de Mohun c.1440; rood stairs to right

  • St Willow: Thomas de Mohun, c.1440

  • St Willow: Thomas de Mohun, c.1440; border inscription & shield

  • St Willow: John Mohun, d.1508, & wife Anne, eng. 1525

  • St Willow: inscription from brass of John Mohun, 1508; reference to sweating sickness

  • Church of St Willow, Lanteglos, Cornwall

  • St Willow: mostly late c14 hillside church, originally the parish church for Polruan; restored by Sedding 1906

  • St Willow: rows of bench ends along the centre of the nave, dating from c.1500

  • St Willow: royal arms of Charles II presented to the parish in 1668

  • St Willow: tomb chest to Thomas de Mohun c.1440; probable builder of the present church

  • St Willow: brass effigy of Thomas de Mohun, c.1440, in armour, with foot & marginal inscriptions, four shields (one lost)

  • St Willow: slate memorial to Thomas Beale, d.1645; verse & inscription set side by side within pattern of tulips

  • St Willow: barely visible traces of painting depicting the Resurrection within the canopied tomb to Thomas de Mohun, c.1440

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Entry Name: Church of St Willow

Listing Date: 21 August 1964

Last Amended: 30 April 1985

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1312492

English Heritage Legacy ID: 60551

ID on this website: 101312492

Location: St Wyllow's Church, Cornwall, PL23

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Lanteglos

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: Lanteglos-by-Fowey

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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