Church Of St Petrock

The Church of St Petrock is a parish church located in Inwardleigh, dating from the late 15th century to the early 16th century, with restoration work completed in 1899. The church features stone rubble walls, which are rendered on the tower, and a gable-ended slate roof. Its layout includes a nave, chancel, north aisle, west tower, and a south porch, with the aisle possibly being an early 16th-century addition.

The exterior showcases a three-stage west tower with diagonal buttresses, crenellations, and crocketted pinnacles topped with fleur de lys finials. The belfry has two-light segmental-headed openings. The west doorway is plain and chamfered, featuring a two-centred arch. Above it is a simple two-light mullion window with round-headed lights. The north aisle contains three early 16th-century three-light granite mullion windows with round heads and square hoodmoulds. The granite north doorway is set back behind a heavy square-headed frame with a large hoodmould, featuring a two-centred head, large quatrefoils in the spandrels, and carved jambs. An image niche is located above this doorway, which also has a two-centred head. The east end of the aisle has a three-light Perpendicular granite window, while the chancel's east window is a three-light Perpendicular restoration made of red sandstone. On the south side of the chancel, there is a very narrow four-centred head priest's doorway with a square hoodmould, and the date carved above is now illegible. To the left of this doorway is a two-light 15th-century cinquefoil-headed mullion window.

The south porch is a single-storey gabled structure with a rebuilt two-centred arched doorway featuring projecting imposts. Inside, the porch has a restored wagon roof. The south doorway retains its original granite jambs with pyramid stops and has a restored two-centred head. The internal walls are covered with 20th-century render. The church features a four-bay granite arcade with Pevsner A-type piers, moulded cup capitals, and four-centred arches. There is a plain tower arch, but no chancel arch. The church has 19th-century boarded wagon roofs, and some old glass remains in the east window of the aisle, depicting human figures. A notable feature is the Norman cushion font, which is decorated with flower and star carvings on its panels, ornamental bands on the shaft, and plait moulding at the base. Several slate floor memorials from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries are also present.