St. Crewenna, Crowan, Cornwall
Description
The church of St. Crewenna, restored and re-pewed in 1872 at a cost of upwards of £2,000 (exclusive of the chancel, restored by the Rev. St. Aubyn H. Molesworth-St. Aubyn, 12th. bart. (d. 1913), a former patron of the living), is a building of granite, in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and an embattled western tower, 70 feet high, with pinnacles, containing 6 bells, rehung in 1896 at a cost of nearly £100: the north aisle contains several monuments to the St. Aubyn family, and also the ancient brasses of the St. Aubyns (1400-1599), of which engravings are given in Polwhele's "History of Cornwall;" these were in 1893 bedded in slate and replaced in the aisle; the existing memorials range from 1629 to 1839: at the west end of the north aisle is a window to Henry Jenkin, of Kerthen, 1860: the stained window at the east end of the north aisle was given by Mrs. H. J. Molesworth-St. Aubyn in memory of her husband; another at the end of the south aisle is a memorial to the wife of George Hickman Johns esq. of the India civil service and son of the Rev, J. W. Johns M.A. vicar 1842-89, who died at Poonah, India, in 1876, and J. Tremenheere Johns, his brother, who was drowned at Oxford in 1855: in 1907 a stained window was placed in the eastern chancel to the m emory of Sir John St. Aubyn, d. 1744: on the exterior east wall is a memorial to Richard Tregeare, with a quaint inscription, 1668: in 1892 a vestry and organ chamber were built by the patron of the living, an organ erected by Mrs. Molesworth-St. Aubyn, in memory of her father and mother, and a south porch built as a memorial to the Rev. John White Johns M.A.: there are sittings for about 400 persons.
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St. Crewenna, Crowan, Cornwall
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St. Crewenna, Crowan, Cornwall
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