Church Of Saint Piran

The Church of Saint Piran is a parish church built in 1804, which incorporates much of the 15th-century masonry from the dismantled church of St Piran at Perranporth. It was restored in 1873. The church features a granite ashlar tower and walls made of killas rubble with granite dressings, topped with dry Delabole slate roofs and granite coped gable ends. The layout includes a nave, chancel, west tower, north aisle, south transept, and south porch.

The exterior has remained virtually unchanged since its rebuilding in 1904, featuring a 15th-century two-stage west tower with set-back buttresses, moulded strings, and an embattled parapet with pinnacles at the corners. It has four-centred arched doorways and traceried windows with clear glass, except for the 19th-century windows in Perpendicular style on the south wall of the south transept and the north wall of the north transept.

Inside, there is a 15th-century five-bay arcade with standard A (Pevsner) piers and plastered walls. The roof structure, likely from 1873, is arch-braced and wind-braced, except for the waggon roof over the chancel. Notable fittings include a probable 12th-century font base and shafts, a 15th-century or 19th-century retooled bowl, and 16th-century carved bench ends incorporated into the tower screen and pulpit. Other fittings are from the 19th century.

Monuments within the church include two slate slabs mounted on the south wall, commemorating Perran Hoskyn who died in 1675 and a slate from the early 18th century for the Cottey family of Reen. There is also a marble wall monument on the west wall of the south transept dedicated to Frances, widow of John Beauchamp of Pengreep and wife of John Thomas Esq of Chyverton, who died in 1825 at the age of 85.