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Parish Church of:
Falmouth King Charles
The church of King Charles the Martyr, built in 1662-3, at the expense of Charles II, James Duke of York and other distinguished patrons, is a large and plain edifice of stone and granite in a Debased Perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, nave, aisle vestry and a tower originally of three stages but raised to four stages in the year 1800 to allow of the reception of a clock; it is embattled and has pinnacles and three bells, hung in 1861 at a cost of about £330; the church was paved and otherwise improved in 1706, at the cost of Robert Corker, and in 1812, it was lengthened eastward at an expense of £1,643: there are a large number of monuments of modern date, and sittings for 1,700 persons. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1663; marriages and burials 1664.
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