St Michael's Church, Landrake

The earliest recorded reference to a church at Landrake dates from 1018, when King Cnut granted land to Bishop Burhwold, after which it was to pass to St Germans Priory. This established a connection with the priory at St Germans, whose clergy served the church. The Domesday Book of 1086 records a timber church at Landrake, probably of Anglo-Saxon origin. The present stone church was begun later and consecrated in 1269. Elements of the early building survive, including parts of the south doorway and nave, and a font dated to about 1100. The church was largely rebuilt and enlarged in the late 14th and 15th centuries, when the nave and chancel were altered and the west tower, north aisle,…

St Michael's Church is built of slatestone rubble with granite and greenstone dressings and has slate roofs with crested ridge tiles. The building is primarily in the Perpendicular Gothic style. The nave and chancel form one continuous space, with a west tower, a north aisle with north porch, a south transept, and a south porch. The chancel is supported by angled buttresses. The east end of the chancel has a 15th-century three-light window with a four-centred arch and cusped tracery. The south side of the nave and chancel contains three-light windows inserted during the 19th-century restoration. The gabled south porch has a granite outer doorway with a four-centred arch and moulded…