Church Of St Cohan

The Church of St Cohan is a ruined church that likely dates from the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. It is constructed from slatestone with granite dressings and features a nave, chancel, west tower, south aisle, and south porch. The north wall has a 3-light flat-headed window with a hoodmould, probably from the 15th century, alongside a small window with its frame fallen to the right. The east wall displays a 15th-century window with three identical trefoil-headed lights in the chancel gable and a similar one in the aisle gable. The south wall features a 2-light cusped window; the porch has a nearly round-headed doorway that may be from the 17th century, and an inner pointed doorway that likely dates from the 13th to 14th centuries but was moved when the aisle was built. To the right of the porch are two 15th-century 3-light cusped windows, while the fourth window is a 19th-century cusped 2-light wooden window, with a pointed door to the far right. The slender tower, possibly from the 14th century, has two stages with diagonal corner buttresses and a pointed west doorway, above which is a glazed 2-light window set in an earlier arched opening. The standard A type arcade has collapsed, but the west respond retains part of its 4-centred arch. There is a piscina in the east respond facing the altar position and a niche to the left of the altar position. Some red paint on the inner south wall plaster may date from the early 19th century, while early 16th-century murals on the splays were confirmed in the early 1970s. Pevsner reported in 1970 that the church was neglected. In 1951, the aisle roof was described as an ovolo-moulded waggon roof with a carved east bay, while other roofs were noted as post-medieval in the statutory list description. The church is now roofless and substantially overgrown. A 12th-century font, a figure of Saint Antony, and a 17th-century pulpit have been moved to Tresillian Church. In the churchyard, there is a cross with a wheel head that has four crudely pierced holes to separate the arms, and the shaft is decorated with small irregular holes, similar to those found at Roche, along with two stud-like bumps, comparable to those at Mylor. According to Pevsner, the churchyard is now so overgrown that the cross could not be found, but it probably still exists.