Editing Bodmin (section)

===Parish church of St Petroc===
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[[File:St Petroc's Church, Bodmin - geograph.org.uk - 51028.jpg|thumb|St Petroc's Church]]
The existing church building is dated 1469–72 and was until the building of [[Truro Cathedral]] the largest church in Cornwall. The tower which remains from the original Norman church and stands on the north side of the church (the upper part is 15th-century) was, until the loss of its spire in 1699, {{convert|150|ft|m|round=5|abbr=off}} high. The building underwent two Victorian restorations and another in 1930. It is now listed Grade I. There are a number of interesting monuments, most notably the black [[Delabole]] [[slate]] memorial to Richard Durant, his wives and twenty children, carved in [[relief|low relief]], and that of Prior Vivian which was formerly in the Priory Church (Thomas Vivian's effigy lying on a chest, all in black [[Catacleuse stone]]). There is also a twelfth-century [[Saint Petroc#Veneration|ivory casket]] which is thought to have once contained relics of St Petroc. The font of a type common in Cornwall is of the 12th century: large and finely carved in [[elvan]].<ref>Pevsner, N. (1970) ''Cornwall''; 2nd ed. Penguin Books</ref><ref>[[Edmund Harold Sedding|Sedding, Edmund H]]. (1909) ''Norman Architecture in Cornwall: a handbook to old ecclesiastical architecture''. London: Ward & Co.; pp. 21–36</ref>