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Church of St Tetha

A Grade I Listed Building in St Teath, Cornwall

  • St Tetha: early c15 church with 1630 additions; Perpendicular three stage tower with north-east stair turret

  • St Tetha: Perpendicular window tracery of Catacleuse stone

  • St Tetha: c15 nave with Perpendicular granite piers; fourcentred arches & plain capitals; heavy late c19 restoration

  • St Tetha: arms from the pulpit dated 1630 for Thomas Carminow of Trehanick, d.1640

  • St Tetha: effigy of a c14 priest; loose hanging surplice, girded at the waist

  • St Tetha: effigy of a c14 priest; quatrefoil ornament suspended from knotted cord around neck, angels at head

  • St Tetha: upper half of slate to Frances Bennet, d.1636

  • St Tetha: lower half of slate to Francis Bennet, d.1636

  • St Tetha: boy from the slate to Frances Bennet, d.1636

  • St Tetha: girl from the slate to Frances Bennet, d.1636

  • St Tetha: slate slab, now in the tower to Florence Carew, d.1656, wife of Hugh Carew of Trevie

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Entry Name: Church of St Tetha

Listing Date: 13 January 1988

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1327712

English Heritage Legacy ID: 68610

ID on this website: 101327712

Location: St Tetha's Church, St Teath, Cornwall, PL30

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: St. Teath

Built-Up Area: St Teath

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: St Teath

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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