Church Of Saint John And Saint Petroc

The Church of Saint John and Saint Petroc is a parish church built in 1855 by J.L. Pearson. It features coursed slatestone with granite quoins, jambstones, plinth copings, a string course, and an ashlar upper stage of the tower, which includes a steep pyramidal spire. The roofs over the nave, chancel, and porch are made of dry Delabole slate and are very steeply pitched. The church exhibits Early English architectural influence and consists of a nave, chancel, southwest tower, south porch, and a small vestry wing located north of the chancel.

The nave has paired lancets on both the north and south walls, and there is a group of three lancets on the west gable end. The chancel features a taller quatrefoil ventilator and an apex chimney. The north wall of the nave is punctuated by weathered buttresses, with an additional buttress on the south wall between the nave and chancel. The tower has a group of three lancets on each wall of the upper stage, equipped with slate louvres and a machicolated eaves cornice, topped by a pyramidal ashlar spire. The porch, located at the angle between the tower and nave, has a pointed arched doorway with an inner arch supported by engaged shafts and moulded imposts, along with a trefoil-headed window in the east wall.

The interior of the church remains unaltered. The nave features an arch-braced roof structure with wind braces, ashlar struts, and small bosses on each truss. The chancel roof has a polygonal vault formed by wooden ribs that spring from turned shafts between the lancets. There is a pointed chancel arch, and the windows of the nave have turned shafts between the lancets. All windows contain coloured and clear glass in geometric designs, with Biblical figures as central features in the east and west windows. An aumbry niche in the north wall of the chancel has a trefoil-headed arch with a hoodmould over turned marble nook shafts. The fittings include a painted polygonal pulpit with a blind arcade of pointed arches on slender marble shafts, and simple pine pews with shaped ends and panelled backs.