Portloe Church

Portloe Church is a Church of England building that was formerly a lifeboat house, rebuilt and extended around 1890. It is constructed of slatestone with granite dressings and quoins, topped with a Delabole-slate roof featuring gable ends. The church has a nave and chancel under one roof, with a narrow north aisle beneath a lean-to roof.

The west front features a central doorway with an original planked door set within a painted granite arch that has a hood mould. Flanking the doorway are pointed windows that rise to a higher level, all with linked hood moulds. The windows are two-light wooden constructions with trefoil heads and cusped tympanum arches, accompanied by sidelights. A cusped wooden wheel window is set in a round granite frame with a moulded border. The aisle has lancets in the west window and the south wall of the nave, with all windows displaying cusped leaded glazing. An octagonal open wooden bellcote with a steep lead roof and a weathervane sits near the west gable, while the verge and eaves show exposed purlin and rafter ends.

Inside, the church retains an unaltered interior featuring a four-bay arcade supported by round piers on octagonal bases and four-centred arches. The walls are finished in incised stucco to simulate ashlar, and the roof is a king-post design. Notable fittings include a polygonal pulpit with an octagonal shaft and cusped arcade, as well as an octagonal freestone font on a square base. Two carved heads on the font bowl suggest an early date, although the tooling is from the late 19th century. The church's bell comes from the Dundella, which sank during the Great Blizzard of 1891.