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Parish Church of:
Breock, St
The church of St Breock or St Breoke is an
ancient building of stone, in the Decorated and
Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles,
transepts, south porch and an embattled western tower
containing five bells; there are several monuments: in the
south aisle are some brass effigies, c. 1520, belonging to a
memorial to the Tredeneck family of this parish, including
the figure of a man in a furred robe, his two wives and
seven girls; there is also a small inscribed brass to
Christopher Tredeneck esq. sheriff of Cornwall 1530-1 and
who died in 1531.: and a brass shield much defaced, with the
arms of Tredeneck quartering other coats, and monuments to
the Viel and Tyacke families: there are memorial windows,
tow to the Molesworth family and one in the southern
transept to the family of Prideaux-Brune; the church was
restored and re-seated in 1881, at a cost of £1,700 , the
interior of the roof being entirely renewed and a carved
pulpit and lectern added: there are 450 sittings. The
register of baptisms dates from the year 1563; marriages and
burials, 1561.
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