Portloe Church

Portloe Church

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1219262
Date first listed:
27-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:
Portloe Church
Statutory Address:
Portloe Church
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1219262
Date first listed:
27-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:
Portloe Church
Statutory Address 1:
Portloe Church

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Portloe Church

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Veryan
National Grid Reference:
SW 93741 39425

Details

This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement 30 May 2024 to amend details in the description and reformat the text to current standards

SW 93 NW
8/131

VERYAN
PORTLOE
Portloe Church

GV
II

Church of England church, formerly lifeboat house. Rebuilt and extended circa 1890.

MATERIALS: Slatestone with granite dressings and quoins and Delabole-slate roof with gable ends. PLAN: Nave and chancel under one roof and narrow north aisle under lean-to roof.

EXTERIOR: West front has central doorway with original planked door within painted granite arch with hood mould. Flanking pointed windows rising to higher level with linked hood moulds. Two-light wooden windows with trefoil heads and cusped tympanum arches with sidelights. Cusped wooden wheel window in round granite frame with moulded border. Lancets to aisle west window and south wall of nave. All windows with cusped leaded glazing. Octagonal open wooden bellcote with steep lead roof surmounted by weathervane over ridge near west gable. Exposed purlin and rafter ends to verge and eaves.

INTERIOR: Unaltered interior has four-bay arcade of round piers on octagonal bases and four-centred arches; incised stucco walls to simulate ashlar and king-post roof. Fittings including polygonal pulpit with octagonal shaft and cusped arcade; octagonal freestone font on square base. Two carved heads to bowl suggest early date but tooling is late C19. Bell is from the Dundella which sank in the Great Blizzard of 1891.

SOURCE: church guide.

Listing NGR: SW9374139425

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
62956
Legacy System:
LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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