CHURCH OF ST PETROC

CHURCH OF ST PETROC, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1355166
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1949
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETROC
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETROC, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1355166
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1949
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETROC
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST PETROC, CHURCH LANE
Statutory Address 2:: CHURCH OF ST PETROC, PRIORY ROAD

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

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETROC, CHURCH LANE
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETROC, PRIORY ROAD

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bodmin
National Grid Reference:: SX 07313 67033

Details

BODMIN

SX0767 PRIORY ROAD 629-1/2/96 (North side) 24/03/49 Church of St Petroc

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Parish church. Part of tower Norman, otherwise 1469-72, restored 1814, 1867, 1888 and 1930. MATERIALS: local squared and coursed stone with granite and freestone dressings; dry slate roofs. PLAN: 6-bay nave; 3-bay chancel; north and south aisles; north tower at junction between nave and chancel and 2-storey south porch. EXTERIOR: much retooled or refaced in C19 but incorporating outer granite frames of C15 windows and some C15 tracery. West end partly rebuilt in C19 when a Norman doorway was replaced by present 4-centred arched doorway; 5-light Perpendicular style window above and coped gable; 2 flanking octagonal stair turrets and gable ends of N & S aisles, each with large window in Perpendicular style. Embattled S elevation has 2-storey porch to 2nd bay: 4-centred arched doorway; strings above ground floor and below parapet; niches to 1st floor of front. Priest's door towards right. Central bay of E wall much rebuilt late C19. N tower contains Norman masonry to lower stage: small windows. INTERIOR: C15 waggon roof to chancel aisle with 1471 date painted on, otherwise replaced in C19; tall standard A (Pevsner) granite arcade piers with depressed 2-centred arches and 3 basket arches between east and west end; flat plastered walls. Porch has remains of stone fan-vaulted ceiling, a rare feature in Cornwall. FITTINGS: good quality C12 font with deep granite bowl on short shaft, slender corner shafts with busts of angels on capitals, decorated with carved foliage and scrolls, animals and trees-of-life; 3 piscina including C15 octagonal cresset by S door; late C15 bench ends and rood screen panels incorporated into rood screen, some bench ends reused in choir stalls and desk; 1932 reredos by Sir Charles Nicholson incorporating some original 1491 Mathley More Panels; carved oak pulpit with panels and later embellished base partly of choir stalls; C18 elvan fragment of former lantern cross; two c1500 double-sided German painted panels on piers; lectern incorporating C15 carved oak misereres; C17 carved oak chair, and a fragment of C15 painted wood. The Bodmin Casket, C12 of ivory is set into S wall of S aisle, possibly the casket in which the remains of St Petroc were handed back to the Prior of Bodmin in 1177. MONUMENTS: a free-standing monument between chancel and N aisle to Thomas Vivian, one of the last priors of Bodmin d.1533, of black Catacleuse stone and grey marble recumbent effigy on chest decorated with figures of the Evangelists, cherubs with shields; slate slab to Richard Durant d.1632; another to Peter Bolt d.1633, depicting his 2 wives and 13 children, others to Bernard Flamank 1658, Elizabeth Bernard and by Neville Burnard to Alice, daughter of William and Ann Webb of Altarnum, died 19.9.1833 aged 3 years 3 months; wall marble to Michael Bennet d.1821, by William Behnes, another to Captain Oakely, d.1835 also by Behnes; various late C18 and early C19 wall marbles including a group to the Gilbert family at E end of S chancel aisle. MEMORIAL GLASS: 1859 to John D Watkins (N wall of chancel aisle) d.1846 aged 69 and his wife Loveday d.1857 aged 78; another to E end to E of chancel (inscriptions inaccessible at time of survey); Clara, wife of Walter Raleigh Gilbert of the Priory (qv) daughter of John Michael Williams of Caerhays (E end of S chancel aisle) 1869-1884, fitted 3.10.1884; windows dated 1880, 1898 and to William Robert Kirke d.1868 aged 60, all to S wall of S chancel aisle and several windows to the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry including one over war memorial in N aisle and one to Captain William Henry Liddle, also 2 windows to W end. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Radcliffe E: Cornwall: London: 1970-: 41-43; Kelly: Kelly's Directory of Cornwall: London: 1902-: 34 & 35; Wilkinson Rev J J: The Building of Bodmin Church 1469-72: 1874-).

Listing NGR: SX0731667032

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.

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Legacy System number:: 368037
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, (1970), 41-43
Wilkinson, Reverend J J , The Building of Bodmin Church 1469-72, (1874)
'Kellys Directory' in Cornwall, (1902), 34-35
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/67560
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/52723
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/67562
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/67561
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/52999

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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.