Phillippa Robins

The church of St Kenwyn is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of five bays, south aisle, transepts, south porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock and a fine peal of 3 bells: the east window is a memorial to five members of the Carlyon family, 1856-64: there are also eight other stained windows; the west window bears the arms of six former vicars, from 1776 to 1857; the tower was struck by lightening, 20th December, 1860; the monuments are modern: the church was restored in 1819-20 and again in 1862, and since that time a reredos of alabaster and mosaics, designed by J.P. St. Aubyn esq. and executed by Mr Earp of London, has been erected: there are 450 sittings: in the churchyard near the south porch is a tall and richly sculptured cross, commemorating the Rev. George James Cornish, a former vicar. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1613; marriages, 1559; burials, 1612.