Church of St Gregory

Church of St Gregory, Treneglos

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1310214
Date first listed:
22-Nov-1960
Statutory Address:
Church of St Gregory, Treneglos
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1310214
Date first listed:
22-Nov-1960
Date of most recent amendment:
11-Jan-1989
Statutory Address 1:
Church of St Gregory, Treneglos

Location

Statutory Address:
Church of St Gregory, Treneglos

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Warbstow
National Grid Reference:
SX2078688106

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 February 2024 to correct source, remove superfluous source details from text and reformat the text to current standards

SX 28 NW
7/203

TRENEGLOS
Church of St Gregory

(previously listed as Church of St Werburgh)

22.11.60

GV
II*
Parish church dedicated to St Gregory. Norman origins, extended in late C15 or early C16 and tower rebuilt in 1872. Granite ashlar south porch and south wall of nave. Stone rubble chancel, snecked stone with granite quoins in north aisle and roughly snecked stone west tower.

Plan: nave, chancel, four bay north aisle, south porch and west tower. The church has Norman origins with Norman font and tympanum. North aisle added in circa late C15 or early C16 and south wall of nave and porch added in C16. Tower rebuilt in 1872.

Exterior: C19 west tower of three stages with moulded plinth and strings and parapet rebuilt, the croceted finials reused from the earlier tower. Stair turret on north. No west door, C19 three-light Perpendicular west window and two-light belfry openings. Complete late C15 or early C16 Perpendicular tracery to north aisle with moulded basket arch to north door and canted rood loft stair turret towards east end. C19 east window to chancel. Cusped one-light window in south wall of chancel and two circa C16 Perpendicular three-light windows in nave. C16 porch with outer four-centred roll-moulded arch with hood mould, C16 waggon roof and C16 roll-moulded four-centred granite arch to south door with Norman tympanum above. The tympanum probably depicts two lions facing each other with a stylized tree in the centre.

Interior: C19 plastered walls with remains of red and blue colouring in chancel; possibly distemper. C19 roofs. Four bay granite arcade to north aisle with type A (Pevsner) piers with moulded caps and bases and moulded four-centred arches. Remains of rood loft stair modified to provide steps up to C19 pulpit. C19 altar table and rails and simple C19 pews. Gothic detailing to organ case. Norman font of circa 1100 (Sedding): Round bowl and shaft with square upper part of base decorated with carved heads on corners. Four engaged round squat shafts forming lower part of base. Stocks at west end of church. Gas light fittings.

Listing NGR: SX2078688106

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Legacy System number:
68093
Legacy System:
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Sources

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Sedding, H, Norman Architecture in Cornwall: A Handbook to Old Cornish Ecclesiastical Architecture, (1909)
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Cornwall, (1970)

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