---
title: "St Petroc, Egloshayle"
description: "Located in Egloshayle, Cornwall. Built Norman origins; largely rebuilt C15; tower c.1470s; restored 1867. Diocese of Truro. Grade I. Perpendicular, with Norman font style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Cornwall","Egloshayle","Wadebridge","Grade I","Perpendicular","J. P. St Aubyn"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-petroc-egloshayle"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T01:39:17.031Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-07T20:34:22.800Z"
location: "Egloshayle, Cornwall"
country: "England"
county: "Cornwall"
town: "Egloshayle"
address: "Egloshayle Road, Egloshayle, Cornwall, PL27 6AQ"
postcode: "PL27 6AQ"
built: "Norman origins; largely rebuilt C15; tower c.1470s; restored 1867"
architect: "Restored 1867 by J. P. St Aubyn"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Petroc"]
diocese: "Truro"
grade: "I"
style: "Perpendicular, with Norman font"
materials: "Stone rubble north wall; ashlar slatestone south aisle and west tower with granite dressings; slate roofs"
website: "http://wadebridgeparish.org.uk/churches/egloshayle-church-st-petrocs/"
openingHours: "Open during daylight hours."
parish: "St Breoke and Egloshayle in Wadebridge"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1142961"
gridReference: "SX 000 719"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby"
---

# St Petroc, Egloshayle

St Petroc’s, commonly called Egloshayle Church, stands on Egloshayle Road beside the River Camel at Wadebridge, Cornwall: a Grade I parish church in the Diocese of Truro, open in daylight hours, with a tall fifteenth-century west tower.

## Overview

Historic England lists Egloshayle Church (1142961, Grade I; British Listed Buildings gives a listing date of 6 June 1969). The listing describes Norman origins with a surviving Norman font, a church largely rebuilt in the fifteenth century, and a restoration of 1867 by J. P. St Aubyn. Early masonry remains in the north wall of the nave and north transept. A six-bay south aisle was added in the fifteenth century. In the 1470s the vicar Lovybound (Lovibond) erected the three-stage west tower with set-back buttresses, battlemented parapet and crocketed finials. The west door has a pointed Catacleuse-stone arch with carved jambs of serpents and labels carved with three hearts and the name Lovybound — the same mason associated with Wadebridge Bridge.

Cornwall Historic Churches Trust notes that the church is first recorded in the twelfth century, when patronage was held by the Earl of Gloucester; it later passed to the Benedictines and the See of Exeter, and to the new Diocese of Truro in 1876. The place-name Egloshayle means “church on the estuary.”

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1142961](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1142961)
- [Wadebridge Parish: Egloshayle Church](http://wadebridgeparish.org.uk/churches/egloshayle-church-st-petrocs/)
- [Cornwall Historic Churches Trust: Egloshayle](https://www.chct.info/histories/egloshayle-church/)