Church Of Saint Piran

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