Church Of Saint Feock

The Church of Saint Feock is a parish church, largely rebuilt between 1875 and 1876. This reconstruction incorporated elements from a 15th-century building, including windows, an arcade, and doorways. The church was designed for The Reverend Thomas Philpotts by Piers St Aubyn. It is constructed of killed rubble, laid to course, with granite copings, window surrounds, and weatherings. The roof is covered in dry Delabole slate, featuring coped gable ends, shaped ridge tiles, and cross finials over cruciform gablets.

The church comprises a nave, a chancel under a single roof, a short north aisle, a south aisle, and a south porch. A circa 16th-century flat-headed window with trefoils is incorporated into the north wall of the nave. The north aisle includes a reused 15th-century Perpendicular window on the far left, with other windows dating to the 19th century and designed in a Perpendicular style. The north wall of the chancel is blank. The 19th-century chancel east window is a 3-light design in granite, made in the Perpendicular style. A 19th-century 2-light window on the south side is partially obscured by a flat-roofed vestry. The south aisle and porch were rebuilt, replicating the design of the pre-1875 building, incorporating 15th-century Perpendicular 3-light windows. 19th-century granite copies of earlier Perpendicular windows are found in the west elevation of the nave and south aisle. The porch features a 15th-century, 4-centred arched, moulded granite doorframe.

Inside, the 15th-century granite arcade, consisting of five bays between the nave and south aisle, has four-centered arches with cavetto and ovolo intrados mouldings over coved capitals. The roof structures are of pitch pine, arch braced with angled struts over collar and wind braces. The chancel roof contains painted decoration. A squint connects the south aisle and chancel. A 2-bay 19th-century arcade exists between the nave and north aisle, alongside a 19th-century doorway with a four-centred arch over stiff leaf corbels between the chancel and north aisle. The reredos, a gift from The Reverend Philpotts, is based on designs he saw in Florence and features crocketted pinnacles over battlements, a central cusped ogee arch, and flanking pointed arched panels displaying the Ten Commandments. A piscina with a cusped arch and hoodmould is set into the chancel’s south wall. Several memorial windows of coloured glass are present, including an east window by de Morgan of London, depicting "thy brother shall rise again" and given in memory of the Misses Philpott’s brother. Fittings include a Norman font of Catecleuse stone, decorated with panels depicting trees of life, sitting on a turned shaft with a cable moulding over a round base. A painted coat of arms of Charles I from 1638 is also present. Other fittings consist of a polygonal pulpit incorporating carved Flemish Renaissance panels dating to the late 17th century; a low alabaster chancel screen (also gifted by The Reverend Philpotts); simple pitch pine pews with shaped ends and stocks within the porch, featuring seven holes for use as a pillory. A marble monument with a vase and torches commemorates William Penrose of Tregie, who died in 1838.