St Neuline (medieval)
Parish church
St Newlyn East is a former lead mining village in central Cornwall, 3 miles S of Newquay (and a long way from Newlyn, with which it should not be confused). The church of St Newlina is in the village centre, and is built of killas, a local sedimentary rock that has been metamorphosed by the intruded granite. It consists of a W tower, a nave with a N transept, and a 6-bay S aisle with a transeptal chapel, and a 2-storey S porch. The chancel is of 2 bays, but there is no chancel arch. The lower parts of the N transept walls and more than half its E wall are of 12thc. masonry, and the window in its W wall is probably a re-used Norman one, though widened and with new jambs (Sedding). There is also Norman masonry in the chancel, according to Pevsner. The earliest fabric is in the chancel and the N transept and may be 12thc. The nave is 13thc., and the aisle was added in the 15thc, along with the tower. The church was restored by J. D. Sedding in 1883. The font is the only carved Romanesque feature.