Church Of St Blaize

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.