Description

PERRANZABULOE
SV 75 SE
5/92 Church of Saint Piran
30.5.67
GV II*

Parish church. 1804 (datestone) incorporating much C15 masonry from the dismantled
church of St Piran at Perranporth. Restored in 1873. Granite ashlar tower. Killas
rubble walls with granite dressings. Dry Delabole slate roofs with granite coped
gable ends.
Plan: Nave, chancel, west tower, north aisle, south transept and south porch.
Exterior: Virtually unaltered since rebuilt by 1904. Rebuilt C15 2-stage west tower
and C15 Perpendicular doorways and windows except for C19 windows in Perpendicular
style to south wall of south transept and to north wall of north transept. Tower has
set-back buttresses, moulded strings and embattled parapet with pinnacles over the
corners. 4-centred arched doorways, traceried windows with clear glass.
Interior: C15 5-bay arcade with standard A (Pevsner) piers, plastered walls.
Probably 1873 arch-braced and wind-braced roof structure except for waggon roof over
chancel.
Fittings: Probably C12 font base and shafts, C15 or C19 retooled bowl; C16 carved
bench ends incorporated into tower screen; 3 similar bench ends incorporated into
pulpit. Otherwise C19 fittings.
Monuments: 2 slate slabs mounted on south wall; Perran Hoskyn died 1675 and circa
early C18 slate to Cottey family of Reen (qv); marble wall monument (west wall of
south transept to: Frances, widow of John Beauchamp of Pengreep (qv) and wife of
John Thomas Esq of Chyverton (qv), died 1825 aged 85.

Listing NGR: SW7704752036

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534764

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)