St Stephen, St Stephen by Saltash, Cornwall

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Location
(50°24′14″N, 4°13′49″W)
Site Location
St Stephen by Saltash
National Grid Reference
SX 416 584
Boundaries
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Cornwall now Cornwall
Diocese
medieval Exeter now Truro
Dedication
medieval St Stephen now St Stephen
Type of building/monument
Report authors
  • Richard Jewell
Visit Date
None

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Feature Sets
Description

The body of the church is Perpendicular, although clearly not all of one build. The only feature earlier than the 15thc is the Romanesque font.

History

Originally the parish church of Saltash, until the chapel-of-ease of St Nicholas was made a parish in 1881. Saltash is not mentioned in either the Domesday Book or the Taxatio of 1291.

Features

Furnishings

Fonts

Comments/Opinions

As the motifs (palmettes, tree of life, monsters, stern heads) are identical but the overall quality of execution much lower, it is tempting to say that this Bodmin-type font is a copy of that at St Austell by a different carver.

Bibliography

N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Cornwall, Harmondsworth 1951, 183-84.