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Parish Church of:
Anthony in Meneage, St
The church of St Anthony, situated almost close to the edge of the Durra, on the southern part of the promontory, and said to have been originally a votive church built by shipwrecked Normans, is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave of five bays, north aisle, south transept, south porch and a large embattled western tower of Caan stone,
with four crocketed pinnacles and containing 3 bells, of which the first two are
dated 1674; the third has an invocation to the Virgin in old English letters:
the ancient granite font consists of a bowl supported by four cherubs bearing
shields with the inscription in relief "Ecce Karissimi de vero Baptizabnutur
Spiritu Sancto", in 1890 the church was restored and re-seated with open benches,
and now affords 150 sittings. The register dates from the year 1602.
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