Warleggan Church

Based on the almost circular shape of Warleggan churchyard, it is thought likely that it might be on the site of an Early Mediaeval Celtic religious settlement.

The oldest surviving parts of Warleggan church date from the 13th Century. Around the late 14th-15th Centuries, a smaller Norman church was enlarged which including adding a tower with a spire. In 1818, the spire was destroyed by lightning and the church underwent a fairly severe Victorian restoration later in the 19th Century.

The mediaeval cross in the churchyard was found at Carburrow where it was being used as a gatepost.

A 2009 film named "A Congregation of Ghosts" is about the eccentric last resident vicar of Warleggan who surrounded the vicarage with barbed wire and preached to an empty church with pews containing name cards for each of his parishioners!