St. Gregory's Church, Treneglos, Cornwall

St. Gregory's Church, Treneglos, Cornwall The page for St. Gregory's Church, Treneglos, North Cornwall. Norman origins, extended in late C15 or early C16 and tower rebuilt in 1872. Tower rebuilt in 1872.

Church of St Gregory, Treneglos

Grade: II*
Date Listed: 22 November 1960
English Heritage Building ID: 68093

OS Grid Reference: SX2078488110
Parish church dedicated to St Gregory. Granite ashlar south porch and south wall of nave. Stone rubble chancel, snecked stone with granite quoins in north aisle and roughly snecked stone west tower. Plan: Nave, chancel, 4-bay north aisle, south porch and we

st tower. The church has Norman origins with Norman font and tympanum. North aisle added in circa late C15 or early C16 and south wall of nave and porch added in C16. Exterior: C19 west tower of 3 stages with moulded plinth and strings and parapet rebuilt, the croceted finials reused from the earlier tower. Stair turret on north. No west door, C19 3-light Perpendicular west window and 2-light belfry openings. Complete late C15 or early C16 Perpendicular tracery to north aisle with moulded basket arch to north door and canted rood loft stair turret towards east end. C19 east window to chancel. Cusped 1-light window in south wall of chancel and two
circa C16 Perpendicular 3-light windows in nave. C16 porch with outer 4-centred roll-moulded arch with hood mould, C16 waggon roof and C16 roll-moulded 4-centred granite arch to south door with Norman tympanum above. The tympanum probably depicts two lions facing each other with a stylized tree in the centre. Interior: C19 plastered walls with remains of red and blue colouring in chancel; possibly distemper. C19 roofs. 4-bay granite arcade to north aisle with type A (Pevsner) piers with moulded caps and bases and moulded 4-centred arches. Remains of rood loft stair modified to provide steps up to C19 pulpit. C19 altar table and rails and simple C19 pews. Gothic detailing to organ case. Norman font of circa 1100 (Sedding): Round bowl and shaft with square upper part of base decorated with
carved heads on corners. 4 engaged round squat shafts forming lower part of base. Stocks at west end of church. Gas light fittings. Pevsner, N. and Radcliffe, E. The Buildings of England, Cornwall 2nd edition, 1970. Sedding, E.H. Norman Architecture in Cornwall. From http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-68093-church-of-st-gregory-treneglos- #.WB8j_jKcbUJ

04/06/2025
31/03/2021

The church will be open for individual or family private prayer
from 2pm to 3pm on Good Friday, from 3pm to 4pm on Easter Day, and then from 3pm to 4pm every Sunday until further notice. (Please note: Covid precautions will still apply)

If you need the church to be available for individual or family private prayer at any other time, please contact one of those listed below so that earliest arrangements can be made.

The rector/church wardens can be contacted by telephoning:
Revd Heather Aston 01840 250359, or
Heather French 01566 781372, or
Peter Mitchell 01566 781421

04/10/2020

St Gregory's, Treneglos
WELCOME!
Up to and including 18th October, the church will continue to be open on Sundays from 3pm to 4pm for individual or family private prayer.

Unfortunately the church presently has neither heating nor lighting available, so that when BST ends it will be not only cold but also dark at the current opening time.

If at any time you need the church to be available for individual or family private prayer, please contact the vicar or church wardens so that earliest arrangements can be made. Their contact details are posted on the church gate.

02/07/2020

St Gregory's, Treneglos
WELCOME!

From Sunday, 5th July 2020, the church will be open on a limited basis for individual or family private prayer.

The building will need to be supervised while it is open because of ongoing repairs and to ensure the safety of users. At present the number of people eligible to take on this responsibility is very small.

Initially the church will be open each Sunday from 3pm to 4pm.

We shall have to continue to observe social distancing, etc, etc, to prevent the spread of infection.

04/09/2019

The first service since the church has been repaired will be Harvest Festival and will be held on Sunday 22nd September 2019 at 3.00 pm. All are welcome.

06/07/2018

We are very pleased to report that substantial repairs to the church roof and tower have been completed over the past months, making it considerably more safe, sound and weatherproof and preventing further deterioration. The interior of the church is drying out and the roof is now waterproof. More work is still required to complete the internal and external restoration in full and further grants will be sought to achieve this end.

Photos and text taken from 'Church Trails in Cornwall - The Boscastle Area', set 6. Photography by Roger Moss. Permissio...
06/11/2016

Photos and text taken from 'Church Trails in Cornwall - The Boscastle Area', set 6. Photography by Roger Moss. Permission for reuse has been sought from Cornwall Council. If you are the copyright holder please contact this page regarding permission.

Please see individual photos for detailed information.

06/11/2016

St Gregory's Church needs urgent roof repairs so that it can be returned to use as a place of worship, as it has been since the 12th century. Steps to restore the church to use are well under way, with a grant of almost £100,000 having been offered from the Listed Places of Worship Fund for roof repairs. It is hoped that, with additional funding, it will also eventually be possible to restore the peal of Pennington bells, which have not been rung up for more than half a century and have not even been safe to toll for several decades due to the depradations of woodworm and damp.

06/11/2016

Treneglos Harvest Thanksgiving 2016

This year's Harvest Festival service was held, not in the church, which is currently awaiting substantial repairs, but at Higher Scarsick by kind invitation of the French family. Some sixty people from the parish and beyond gathered under the leadership of the Rector, Revd Tony Windross, to give thanks through the traditional readings and prayers, and to raise their voices in a selection of well-known Harvest hymns rousingly led by members of the St Gennys Silver Band. Almost £300 was raised, to be divided between the church and Launceston Food Bank.

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St. Gregory's Church
Treneglos
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