CORNWALL

 

Kilkhampton - St James

On the A39. Church open.
Park in front of church or small adjacent car park, both  free.

Above Far Left: Lt Col Algernon Carteret Thynne (ob 1917) He was killed in action at Sheria. (South Chapel)
Above Left: John Warminster (ob 1700)
Above Right: Richard Westlake (ob 1704)
Above Left: John Courtis (ob 1705)
The above three nave wall monuments are all by Micheal Chuke (1679-1742); he is said to have been a pupil of Grinling Gibbons. Pevsner refers to them as being 'of indifferent quality.'
Left: Rev John Coryndon This is not in Pevsner. In the inaccesible South Chapel and partly behind the organ.
Right: Sir Bevill Grenville (ob 1643) MP for Cornwall and later for Launceston and friend of Sir John Elliot whom he loyally supported during his long imprisonment in the Tower. He abandoned opposition to King Charles I in 1631 and firmly supported him during the First Scots War. In the First Civil War he played an important part in resisting the Parliamentary Army. In 1643 he joined Prince Maurice's Army which marched into Somerset and in July attacked Sir William Waller on Lansdowne Hill. Here he was struck to the ground by a pole axe and died the next day at Cold Ashton parsonage. (South Chapel)

Boscastle 
St Merteriana
The church is 1 mile outside the town and is called Minster although this is not indicated on the O/S map. Take the B3266 from Boscastle and then an easy to miss (although Minster is just about signposted)  and narrow unclassified road on your left. The church is in a hollow on the left. Open. Parking very difficult. Ref: SX 11092 90514

Two kneeling wall monuments of 1611 & 1656

Launcells - St Swithin

A delightful church in a beautiful setting, off the beaten track but well signposted down a single track road. No village. Church open. Car park.

Sir John Chamond (1642)

Lezant - St Michael
Mary Rashleigh (1621)

Stratton  St Andrew

A pleasant village, near Bude but well insulated from it. Church open. Park near church or - perhaps easier - is that rarity, in a free car park a short (but steep hill) walk away.

 

 

 

Sir John Arundell of Trerice (ob 1561)  & Two Wives
Brasses on slate now set against west wall

Top: Sir Ranulph de Blanchminster (c 1348)
Small effigy, now on window still
Bottom: Anca Winand van Wulfften Palthe (ob 1922)
In church yard. Bronze by T. Rosandic

 


 

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