Description

ST GERMANS TIDEFORD CROSS LANE (east side),
SX 35 NW
Tideford
4/139 Church of St Luke
23.1.68
GV II

Parish church. 1845 by George Wightwick. Coursed greenstone rubble with limestone
dressings. Slate roof with raised coped verges to chancel.
Plan: Nave and chancel, with south porch to nave and north vestry to chancel.
Nave: has weathered buttresses, on the south side a 2-light and a 3-light window
with 4-centred arched head, hood mould and Perpendicular tracery; bay to west has
gabled porch with tall 4-centred arched doorway, double doors, raised coped verges
and kneelers to gable with cross finial, moulded eaves cornice. West end of nave has
similar 2-light window with Y-tracery. To north, two 3-light windows and central 2-
light window, as to south. Slate-hung bellcote with bell, spire with cross finial.
Chancel: at lower roof level, has 3-light east window with cusped lights and
reticulated tracery, similar 2-light south window. Vestry to north.
Interior: Nave has 4-bay hammer-beam roof rising from stone corbels. Stepped
chamfered 4-centred arch to chancel. Pointed arched door to north vestry, with
squint doorway giving access to pupit by chancel arch. Chancel windows have busts as
stops to hood moulds.
Fittings: Fine Norman font, from chapel of St Luke near Bolventor. C19 wooden
benches in nave, readers' desks in chancel with poppy head ends. Panelled wooden
pulpit in nave.
Monuments: marble tablet on slate ground, in the chancel, to Elizabeth Bury, 1853.
Sources: Radcliffe, E. : Buildings of England: Cornwall 1970.

Listing NGR: SX3478159911

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26597683

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