Church of St Merteriana

St Merteriana: mother church of Boscastle set below a country lane in a wooded valley south of the town
St Merteriana: part of monastic building; c15 tower, restored & given saddleback roof in 1869
St Merteriana: nave with c16 south aisle, four-centred arches
St Merteriana: simple Norman font
St Merteriana: memorial to John Hender of Botreaux Castle, d.1611, & wife Jane (nee Thorne of Northampton)
St Merteriana: inscription from the memorial to John Hender of Botreaux Castle, d.1611
St Merteriana: one of four slate panels representing the four daughters of John Hender of Botreaux Castle, d.1611, & their husbands
St Merteriana: memorial to William Cotton, d.1656, & wife Elizabeth (nee Hender of Botreaux Castle); three sons & five daughters
St Merteriana: memorial to John Cotton, d.1703, & wife Sarah (nee Fuljames of Woodbrooke), d.1676
St Merteriana: brass to Hender Robartes, d.1602, infant son of Frances Robartes (nee Hender) and her husband Richard
St Merteriana: female figure from the brass to Hender Robartes, d.1602; presumably his mother Frances
St Merteriana: one of several slate memorials at west end of church; this one to Frances, d.1701, daughter of William Cotton, d.1656, & wife of Thomas Were of Silverton