Church Of St Conan

EGLOSHAYLE WASHAWAY SX 07 SW 4/39 Church of St Conan

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Church. Dedicated to St Conan. 1883. Built to a design by Bishop E.W. Benson. Snecked local stone rubble with granite dressings and slate roof with gabled ends and sprocketted eaves. Parapet coping at east end of chancel. Plan: Nave and chancel with north transept, vestry on north side of chancel and south porch. A gabled bellcote on the exterior marks the distinction between th nave and chancel. Gothic style. Exterior: Cusped heads to lancets lighting the north and south walls of the nave and chancel. 3-light chancel window with 2 mullion and transom windows with cusped head flanked by 2 lancets at the west end. The gable porch has a chamfered granite shouldered arch. Interior: Not accessible. The font is illustrated by Sedding and was probably brought from the rectory garden at Lanteglos-by Camelford: possibly Saxon in origin with a round bowl, cable bands decorating the shaft on a later C19 base. The C16 carved timber pulpit was brought back from Germany by Sir William Molesworth in the early C19 and presented to the Church in 1928. Colquitt-Craven, Joan Egloshayle Church, Wadebridge, 1986 Sedding E H Norman Architecture in Cornwall. 1908 Plate XXXVI, pp 96-97

Listing NGR: SX0356570014