The Church Of St Piran And St Michael

The Church of St Piran and St Michael is a parish church located in Perranuthnoe. It has some Norman elements, including the font, but was mostly rebuilt around 1470 and underwent further restoration and partial rebuilding in 1883. The church features a granite ashlar tower, while the rest is constructed from granite rubble with granite or freestone dressings, topped with dry Delabole slate roofs.

The layout includes a nave and chancel (partly from the 12th century), a 15th-century tower, a 15th-century north aisle, a 12th-century south transept (mostly rebuilt in 1883), and a circa 14th-century porch (largely rebuilt in 1883). The exterior showcases a three-stage 15th-century tower with original Perpendicular doors and windows, string courses dividing the stages, an embattled parapet with corner pinnacles, louvred bell chamber windows, and a clock face added in 1913 to the east window. The north aisle contains 15th-century Perpendicular windows and a doorway, with a 19th-century east window. The chancel window and the windows in the south aisle and transept are also from the 19th century. A Norman south doorway features three carved heads on the hoodmould.

Inside, there is possibly a 12th-century transept arch on octagonal responds, a 15th-century tower arch, a 15th-century four-bay arcade, 15th-century rood stairs, and 19th-century wall plaster and waggon roofs. Notable fittings include a 12th-century square granite font, an oak pulpit from 1740 on a granite base, a painted coat of arms from the George III period (dated 1814), a 1926 rood screen, choir stalls, and reredos in the Perpendicular style, along with some colored glass.

The church also contains marble wall monuments dedicated to Humphry Cole of Marazion, who died in 1775 at the age of 43, and his wife Phillis, who died in 1800 at the age of 67, as well as to Christopher Cole RN, a Knight Commander of the Bath and Colonel of Marines, who lived from 1770 to 1836, along with others from the same family.