Church of St Blaize is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1950. A C15 Church.
Church of St Blaize
- WRENN ID
- final-balcony-meadow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1950
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Blaize, St. Blaise
- OS grid reference
- SX 068 548
- Coordinates
- 50.36144, -4.71683
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Blaize is a parish church dating from around 1440, with significant restoration carried out in 1839 by Moffatt of Scott and Moffatt. The building is constructed from granite ashlar, except for the north aisle, which is made of slatestone and granite rubble with granite dressings and elvan mullions. It features dry slate roofs with coped gable ends.
The church has a 15th-century plan that includes a nave, chancel, south aisle, south porch, and a west tower. The north aisle, added in 1839 or 1842, closely resembles the south aisle. The exterior showcases restored 15th-century three-light traceried windows with hoodmoulds in the older parts of the church, along with a moulded wallplate cornice on the south aisle. The three-stage embattled tower is adorned with squat pinnacles and has strings that divide the stages. The upper stage contains louvered windows, while the south side features a clock face on the second stage above a trefoil-headed ventilator, an ogee-headed niche, and a squat two-centred-arched moulded doorway with an inner order on turned shafts, which predates the tower. The porch doorway is also two-centred, with a heavily moulded outer order and an inner order supported by octagonal jambs.
Inside, the church has granite rubble walls and five-bay arcades with standard A (Pevsner) piers and moulded four-centred arches. The 19th-century waggon roofs are decorated with carved ribs.
Fittings from the 19th century include a hexagonal pulpit made of limestone and marble, an octagonal freestone font adorned with quatrefoils and fleurs-de-lis attached to a pier, and oak stocks in the porch that may be older.
Notable monuments within the church include a slate slab dated 1701, a wall monument featuring columns and a panel framed by drapery over an oval depicting the Last Judgement, created by Weston of Exeter for Henry Scovell, who died in 1727, and a Decorated style triptych with a Latin inscription at the center and side panels depicting figures for Sir Thomas Carlyon of Tregrehan, who died in 1832.
Local climate
Church of St Blaize sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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