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Parish Church of:
Cleer, St
The church of St Cleer is a building of stone in the late
Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles,
south porch and a western tower of granite in three stages,
97 feet high, with pinnacles at the angles and two
buttresses at each angle, also terminating with pinnacles
rising from the parapet: the tower contains 6 bells, all
cast in 1789: in the north wall of the chancel is a
hagioscope: a piscina also remains: the font is Early
English : on the north side is a Norman doorway, with zigzag
mouldings: there are memorials to the families of Jope,
1844-54: Connock, 1757-1804, and Langford, 1614, with a
curious and lengthy inscription: the church was repaired
about 1870, when the chancel was new roofed, the windows
reproduced in Polyphant stone and the Norman doorway
restored: there are 550 sittings. The register dates from
the year 1678.
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