Churches of the British Isles

By 1086 the manor was held by Osfrith. The De Cantias family had the right to appoint the priest in 1266. By 1321 this right passed along with the manor to the Carminows. The bishop of Exeter rededicated the church at that time. The church may then have been cruciform, having started off with just a chancel and nave. The south aisle was added not long before the Reformation to allow special processions around the church. Much of today's building dates to the 1400s.

Boconnoc had a tower and three bells and a north chapel by the time the Mohuns bought the manor about 1541. King Charles encamped here during the English Civil War prior to the Battle of Lostwithiel. He attended a service at the church on Sunday 11 August 1644. The church acquired a west gallery and its present octagonal bell turret in 1829 and underwent restoration work under St Aubyn in 1873. Further repairs were carried out in 1935.

Trecangate Providence (Bible Christian) Chapel stood on the south-west side of the Polpiece lane, around three kilometres east of the mid-point between Boconnoc and Crouch's Mill, and a kilometre west of the hamlet of Trecangate. The site is marked by a 2009 plaque. The chapel stood between 1820-1954, built with cob walls by Francis Tamblyn. It was demolished in 1964 after being used for ten years as a farm building, having been found to be structurally unsafe.

Couch's Mill Wesleyan Methodist Chapel sits to the south of the village, on the eastern side of the lane at the corner of the Lanreath Road. It is marked on the earliest OS maps and is believed to have been built in 1815. There exist church minutes up to 1969 which imply a closure date. It was part of the Liskeard circuit, and may well have had a Sunday school next door. After a period of unknown use, the chapel was converted in 2014 and is now a residential property.

Furze Ebenezer Bible Christian Chapel was located on the western side of the narrow lane, about half a kilometre to the north of the St Marnarch's Road four-way junction. The chapel was built at an unknown date before 1880. Late Victorian OS maps place it just south of a copse of trees, at this access point to a field which is blocked by a metal pole. The building remained marked on maps after 1880 but not as a chapel, and nothing seems to be known about it.

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