Old Kea Church

Old Kea Church

A substantial church was built at Old Kea in the 13th Century or earlier. Despite restoration in the early 16th Century, it had become a ruin by the late 18th Century. As it was at the extreme east of the parish, which was inconvenient for congregations, a new church was built in another part of the parish in 1802. The old church was largely dismantled, with some of the window tracery sold off to construct Perranzabuloe church and the font and bells used in the new church at Kea. All that survives of the old church today is the atmospheric tower. Some of the building materials from the old church were used to construct a parish poor-house on the site which was later rebuilt into the small church building initially in the 1850s and extended into its present form in the 1860s, when the stained glass was added.

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