Historic Churches in Cornwall

St Petroc's is a medieval church on the site of a 6th-century church founded by St Petroc himself. Outside the church is an ancient Celtic cross, and interior highlights include an ornate memorial to the Prideaux family of Prideaux Place and a richly carved 14th-century font.
Church Street, Padstow, Cornwall, England, PL28 8BG

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Heritage Highlight: Prideaux family memorial
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St Mary's was the first church designed by architect GE Street, one of the leading exponents of Gothic Revival. It was built in 1849 and is a beautiful example of Anglo-Catholic style. In the churchyard stands an early Christian cross shaft and a medieval wayside cross.
Biscovey, St Blazey Gate Par, Cornwall, England, PL24 2EE

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Heritage Highlight: Early Christian cross shaft in the churchyard
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St Piran's Church is an early 19th-century building made with stones from a medieval church on Penhale Sands that was abandoned due to encroaching sand. The entire tower comes from the medieval church, and carved pieces of the medieval screen and bench ends were used to furnish the new church.
A3075, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England, TR4 9LQ

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Heritage Highlight: Medieval carved screen from St Piran's Old Church
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St Olaf's is a mainly 15th-century church, built upon the foundations of an earlier Norman building. The historic highlight is a collection of 78 late medieval bench ends carved with symbols of the Passion. Other highlights include a pair of 15th-century wall paintings of St Christopher and a set of wooden Tudor roof bosses.
Poughill, Cornwall, England, EX23 9EP

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Heritage Highlight: 15th-century wall paintings
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St Winwaloe's church dates to at least the 13th century and stands just above a rare Tudor 'gildhouse' made for holding church feasts. Inside the church are several 16th-century wall paintings, remains of a medieval rood screen, and if you are unlucky, the ghost of a curate killed before the altar in 1357.
Vicarage Lane, Poundstock, Cornwall, England, EX23 0AX

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Heritage Highlight: Late medieval wall paintings
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Probus church boasts the highest tower in Cornwall at over 120 feet. Inside the church is a memorial brass to the Wulvedon family, dated 1512, and a collection of late medieval carved bench ends. There is also a medieval pillar piscina and an ornate memorial to Thomas Hawkins of Trewithen, dated 1776.
Tregony Road, Probus, Cornwall, England, TR2 4JW

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Heritage Highlight: 1512 Wulvedon brass
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This tiny medieval chapel dedicated to St Michael stands in an isolated position atop Rame Head, a few miles west of Plymouth Sound. The chapel dates to the 14th century and was used as a signal station during the Spanish Armada crisis of 1588. It may stand on the site of a Celtic hermitage; it definitely stands within an Iron Age promontory fort.
Rame, Cornwall, England

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St Germanus church dates to the 13th century and stands upon the site of a Norman church. One remnant of that Norman building is a finely carved tympanum, reset in the medieval church wall. Historic highlights include a 14th-century font and very fine 17th and 18th-century memorials.
Ramehead Lane, Rame, Cornwall, England, PL10 1LG

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Heritage Highlight: Re-set Norman tympanum
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The small hamlet of Sancreed boasts a parish church mainly from the 13th-15th centuries, with a Norman font and a carved medieval chancel screen. In the churchyard are a pair of Celtic crosses, at least 10th century in date if not earlier.
Sancreed, Cornwall, England, TR20 8QS

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Heritage Highlight: Two Celtic crosses in the churchard
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A 12th-century cruciform church established by the Augustinian Priory of Plympton. The church was extensively restored in the Victorian period but retained so much of its original character that Sir Nickolaus Pevsner called it the best example in Cornwall of a parish church from the 12th and 13th centuries.
Portscatho, St Anthony-in-Roseland, Cornwall, England, TR2 5EZ

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Heritage Highlight: The Norman south door
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