Church Of St Euny

The Church of St Euny is a parish church. The west tower dates to the late 15th century, while the rest of the church was rebuilt in 1758 and restored in 1878, 1925, and 1958. It is constructed of granite ashlar with a slate roof.

The tall, three-stage west tower has set-back buttresses, a moulded plinth, a prominent moulded band at ground floor and weathered bands above. The west doorway is Tudor-arched, with carved spandrels, a deeply moulded surround, and a deep hoodmould. Above the door is a two-centred arched, three-light window with Tudor-arched lights, a hollow-moulded surround, and a hoodmould. The third stage has three-light belfry windows with simple Perpendicular tracery, stone louvres, figured gargoyles above each belfry window, and a carved winged figure at each corner. The tower is topped with an embattled parapet and crocketed corner pinnacles raised on slender turrets with foiled panels.

The aisles, in a simple Georgian style, are five bays wide and externally of two unequal storeys. They have a low first floor band and symmetrically arranged segmental-headed openings with keystones. Doorways are located in the first and fifth bays (with panelled doors), and short windows are in the intermediate bays at ground floor. Tall windows fill all bays above, mostly sashed with many small panes. Some ground floor windows have been replaced with stained glass, and one in the centre of the north side has two stone mullions. The building has modillioned eaves cornices and coped gables. The triple-gabled east end mirrors the aisles’ fenestration, and incorporates a Venetian window in the wider centre bay.

Inside, the tower has a double-chamfered two-centred arch with semi-octagonal responds, featuring foiled panels. Otherwise the 18th century interior is a single vessel. Five-bay aisle colonnades of Tuscan columns on tall stylobates support a square entablature that supports heavily-moulded longitudinal beams to a panelled flat ceiling. Various 19th century wall monuments are present, and at the west end of the north aisle is a framed painted display of the Arms of George III.