Sancreed Parish Church

Sancreed Parish Church

Sancreed Parish Church
Coordinates: 50°07′29″N 05°40′44″W / 50.12472°N 5.67889°W / 50.12472; -5.67889
OS grid reference SW371174
Denomination Church of England
Administration
Deanery Penwith
Archdeaconry Cornwall
Diocese Truro
Province Canterbury

Sancreed Parish Church is the parish church of Sancreed, Cornwall, England, UK.[1][2] It is an Anglican church in the Diocese of Truro.

Sancreed Parish church (Grade II Listed) lies at the heart of the village and is dedicated to St Sancredus. The church is built of granite, parts of which date back to the 13th and 14th-centuries which was originally built in a cruciform shape. The current church has an unbuttressed west tower of two stages, a north transept and a 15th-century south aisle of five bays. Features of interest include the fine font which is of the St Ives type dating from the 14th-century and the rood screen which has curious carvings at the base.[3]

Much of the church was restored in the late Victorian period and together with the churchyard and church have within the late 19th and first part of the 20th-century made a strong appeal to painters of the Newlyn School of Art, some of whom worshipped regularly at the church and are buried in the churchyard (including Stanhope Forbes RA).

References

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  1. ↑ "Parish of Sancreed". Cornwall-opc.org. Retrieved 2016-06-02.
  2. ↑ You, A Church Near. "Sancreed: St Creden, Sancreed". Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  3. ↑ Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall; 2nd ed., revised by Enid Radcliffe. Harmondsworth: Penguin; p. 207.


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