Church of St Moren is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1967. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Moren
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- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1967
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Moren, Lamorran, St. Michael Penkevil
- OS grid reference
- SW 878 417
- Coordinates
- 50.2378, -4.97633
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Moren is a small church located in St Michael Penkivel, with some surviving fabric from the 15th century, but mostly rebuilt in 1854. It is constructed of slatestone with granite dressings and features a steeply pitched banded Delabole slate roof with granite coped gables. The church includes a nave, chancel, north transept, south transept, and a south porch.
The north wall of the nave has a three-light cusped and traceried granite window from the 19th century. The north transept has a similar window in its north gable. The east wall of the north transept features a pointed, splayed door frame with rubble jambs and voussoirs to the left, which may be medieval, alongside a 19th-century three-light pointed arched window to the right. The chancel's east window is a three-light window in the Decorated style from the 19th century. The south transept likely dates from the 15th century and contains an original three-light flat-headed window in the east wall, which has some fragments of medieval glass, and an original three-light Perpendicular window in the south gable. The south wall of the nave features a 15th-century flat-headed window with a 19th-century hoodmould. The porch, located at the angle between the nave and chapel, has a 15th-century four-centred moulded door frame and a small buttress to the left. The west gable has a 19th-century pointed door frame and a resited 15th-century Perpendicular three-light window above.
Inside, the church has an arch-braced pitch pine roof and a pointed chancel arch supported by pillars. The fittings include 19th-century oak pews and a pulpit with pierced decoration. There is a Norman font with a round bowl on a round base, featuring four carved heads over round shafts.
Local climate
Church of St Moren receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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