While tracing family roots, I visited Perranuthnoe where my great great grandfather, William Johns, was baptised in 1824. It is a very interesting small church, double naved and while much altered over the years, it retains a special character.
I was fascinated by the very small wooden door inset into the main entry door, also wooden. By the looks of it, the whole is very old. The first thing I thought of was "dog door" and it seems like I read in a pamphlet or heard somewhere that the little door really was a door that farmers could bring their sheep dogs in and tie them up at the back of the church for the service. Does anyone know the real story. I have feelers out on the village web site and a letter to the vicar but so far no answers.
Some of the pews are ornately carved, including a bust-revealing woman in mideaval looking costume: very racy! I loved the pamphlet on the different species of lichens on the church and the headstones.
Barry
