Editing Padstow (section)

==Churches==
[[File:Padstow St. Petroc 03.jpg|thumb|upright=0.75|St Petroc's church]]
The church of [[St Petroc]] is one of four said to have been founded by the saint, the others being [[Little Petherick]] (or St Petroc Minor), Parracombe and [[Bodmin]]. It is quite large and mostly of 13th- and 14th-century date. There is a fine 15th-century font of [[Catacleuse]] stone; the pulpit of c. 1530 is also of interest. There are two fine monuments to members of the Prideaux family (Sir  
Nicholas, 1627. and Edmund, 1693): there is also a monumental brass of 1421.<ref>[[Nikolaus Pevsner|Pevsner, Nikolaus]] (1970) ''Cornwall'', 2nd ed., revised by Enid Radcliffe. Harmondsworth:  Penguin Books; pp. 129–130</ref> The benefice is a rectory: Padstow (St Petroc), [[St Merryn]] and [[St Issey]] with St Petroc Minor now form a group within the deanery of [[Pydar]].