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LITTLE PETHERICK, OTHERWISE St. PETROCK MINOR. 



BT THE 



Reverend the Eight Honorable SAMUEL VISCOUNT MOLESWORTH, M.A., Rector. 



The church of St. Petroc in this Parish was re-opened for 

 Divine Service on Wednesday, 6th October, 1858. 



The church has been almost rebuilt. The general character 

 of the old building has been preserved, the walls being built 

 upon the line of the old foundation with the exception of an 

 additional bay at the end of the north aisle to the westward. 



The old church was much after the usual type of Cornish 

 churches, consisting, in this instance, of only two long ridges, 

 with a south porch and western tower, all unbuttressed and 

 built of rubble slate stone with granite quoins. 



The old north aisle was curiously cut out of the native 

 schist rock, which was left to form the external wall, with the 

 exception of a foot or two of walling work immediately under 

 the roof. This primitive feature it was found necessary to 

 sacrifice. The trickling in of water, from the wet earth, caused 

 constant damp and unwholesomeness even in the summer raonths. 

 This has been all now remedied, and the walls are built of slate 

 stone and other stone of the neighbourhood in random courses. 



The gables are finished with water-tablings and saddle- 

 stones with bold granite finial crosses. The division of the nave 

 and chancel is externally marked by a slight break in the roof 

 and an ornamental metal cross. 



The east window of the chancel is of stained glass, the 

 design of Alfred Bere, of Exeter. The rest of the windows are 

 filled with quarry-glass slightly tinted. The new windows in 

 their treatment follow the style of the tracery of the old east 

 windows, whose date was about the middle of the 14th century. 



The new roofs are framed of Baltic fir, of strong, though 

 light, construction. 



