Church of St Levan is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 2001. Church.
Church of St Levan
- WRENN ID
- brooding-spandrel-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 2001
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Levan, St. Austell Bay
- OS grid reference
- SX 029 505
- Coordinates
- 50.32161, -4.77004
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Levan is an Anglican mission church built between 1884 and 1885 by J. Reeves. It is constructed from dressed Pentewan stone and features a slate roof with coped gable ends. The church has a small two-cell layout, consisting of a nave and chancel under one roof, with a vestry on the south side and a wide porch resembling a narthex at the west end.
In the Victorian Early English style, the exterior showcases tall cusped lancets on both the north and south sides, with the north side also featuring a stone lateral stack with set-offs. The east end is adorned with triple lancets and a stone cross at the apex of the gable. At the west gable end, there is a stone bellcote on corbels, which forms an arch over a lancet window. The wide three-bay west porch includes three pointed arches with carved stone shields and an inscription that reads, "Jesus Came to Them Walking on the Seas." Inside, there is a plank inner door with wrought-iron hinges. The vestry on the south side rises from the churchyard retaining wall and has a shouldered arch doorway on its west side.
The interior features exposed stone walls and a plain pointed chancel arch. The roof is arch-braced with exposed common rafters. The east end has triple lancets with nook-shafts, and there is a Devon marble reredos from 1895, also by J. Reeves. Additional interior elements include a wrought-iron Communion rail, choir stalls with trefoil ends and arcaded fronts, a carved wooden eagle lectern, and stained glass windows.
Local climate
Church of St Levan receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% 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 0.3°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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