The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Nonna (medieval)
Parish church
The church has nave and chancel in one, S porch, S aisle with four-bay arcade extending almost to the end of the chancel, and W tower. The W tower, S aisle and arcade are Perp. The nave and chancel are probably part of the original 12thc. structure. The two S windows in the chancel, now with pointed windows, may have originally been 12thc. openings. They are deeply splayed on the interior. The rubble masonry in the S wall is probably of 12thc. date.
Parish church
Altarnun is a village in the E of the county, 7 miles W of Launceston on the NE edge of Bodmin Moor. The church is at the N end of the village centre, and is one of the largest in the county, with a W tower second only to Probus in height. This is of 3 storeys, begun in the late-14thc and completed in the mid-15thc. and built of ashlar and rubble. The nave is aisled with N and S porches, all of the 15thc and 16thc. and built of roughly coursed local stone with a granite plinth, and the chancel is of stone rubble, also with a granite plinth. The only Romanesque piece in the church is a Norman font of a type common in Cornwall, known as the Altarnun group. The church was restored by E. Sedding in 1867.