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Parish Church of:
Braddock (Bradoc)
The church of St. Mary is an ancient
building of stone and granite in the Perpendicular style
consisting of double aisles with chancel, transept and a
western tower of two stages with pinnacles containing 5
bells, all recast in 1845 by Mears, from a previous peal of
4, with additional metal; the base of the rood screen
remains, but the upper part is now in Boconnoc church; some
of the bench ends bear the arms of the Ringwood family and
the date 1634: the pulpit is cingue-cento: in the windows
are the arms of Pitt, Fortescue and Ryder: the font of
Pentewan stone, is Early English: the organ, designed by Sir
John Stainer Mus.D. Oxon, was presented by the late Lieut.
Col. C.D. Fortescue in 1887,; the chancel was re-seated in
the same year, the church having been restored some time
previously: there are sittings for 150 persons. In the
churchyard is an original lynch gate. The register for
baptisms dates from the year 1571; burials 1555 and
marriages 1619.
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