Churches of the British Isles

The church building was enlarged and renewed in 1844, but was then almost completely rebuilt in 1875-1876, with work by Piers St Aubyn serving to incorporate fifteenth century windows, plus arcade and doorways. The south entrance to the churchyard is through a lych gate, and over that is a room in which the parish meetings were once held. The gem inside the church is the Norman font of Catacleuse stone which has a rich vein of decoration.

An area which can be termed Feock Open Air Church would have been located within present church grounds. Local tradition says that Saint Feock himself lived in a small hut near the well here, with the stream originally running down though the churchyard. Its course down to Loe beach can still be seen in the orchard garden. It is not difficult to visualise this amphitheatre, with a baptismal stream running past a large wooden cross, as being a very early open air church.

Feock Independent Baptist Church is lost. Some of the earliest records of nonconformist congregations in the parish cover the Penpol area. They show a Baptist meeting at Townsend in Feock between 1821-1839, but its location is too early for Victorian OS maps to have recorded it. Baptists are additionally recorded in British History documents, along with Calvinists who were also worshipping in the area. The location of their place of worship is also unknown.

Restronguet Religious House & Burial Ground today consists of the remains of the burial ground which belonged to a lost religious house, measuring about 0.2 hectares and formerly being connected to an unknown Loe Chapel in Feock. This is likely to have been Feock church, but further information has been lost in connection with the location of this religious house and burial site. It is assumed to be this side of the Carrick Roads because of its association with Loe.

Penpol Wesleyan Methodist Chapel is located on the eastern side of Trolver Hill, between Feock and Penpol to its north-west, and a short way south of the Penpol Hill junction. A meeting house licence was granted for Penpol in 1807, likely to be near this site. There is reference to a Penpol Methodist society from 1841. Penpol chapel is dated to 1861. At the Methodist union in 1932, this became Penpol Methodist Church. Today it remains part of the Truro circuit.

All photos on this page by Jo Lewis.