St Thomas of Canterbury's Church, Camelford is a church in the

Church of England The Church of England (C of E) is the State religion#State churches, established List of Christian denominations, Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies. It is the mother church of the Anglicanism, Anglican Christian tradition, ...

Diocese of Truro in

Camelford Camelford () is a town and civil parish in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, situated in the River Camel valley northwest of Bodmin Moor. The town is approximately north of Bodmin and is governed by Camelford Town Council. The ward pop ...

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. It is a chapel-of-ease in the parish of Lanteglos-by-Camelford.

History

The church was built between 1937 and 1938 to the designs of the architect Charles Nicholson. The Cowlard family of Launceston).Madford
Launceston Then! gave the medieval font. Pevsner describes it as

A minor delight. It sits well on a slightly elevated site above the main road, its modest scale and use of local
Delabole Delabole () is a large village and civil parish in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, which lies approximately two miles (3 km) west of Camelford. The village of Delabole came into existence in the early 20th century; it is named af ...
slate combining well with an understated Romanesque style...

There was in medieval times a chapel of St Thomas in the town which probably fell into disuse after the Reformation (it is recorded in 1312).

Parish status

The church is in a joint benefice with: *

St Adwen's Church, Advent St Adwen's Church, Advent is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Advent, Cornwall. It is the only church in Cornwall to have eight pinnacles to its tower. It is dedicated to St Adwen, one of the daughters of King Brychan ...

* St Julitta's Church, Lanteglos-by-Camelford

Stained glass

The church has two good windows by famous designers: *Chancel east window, 1938 by

Martin Travers Howard Martin Otho Travers (19 February 1886 – 25 July 1948) was a leading English church artist and designer. Travers was born in Margate, Kent, educated at Tonbridge School, entered the Royal College of Art in 1904, and was awarded its Dipl ...

*South Chapel east window, 1938 by

Theodora Salusbury Theodora Salusbury (24 May 1875 – 22 September 1956) was an artist and craftswoman in the Arts & Crafts-style. She specialised in stained glass and most of her work bears her signature, a peacock in its pride. Biography Salusbury was born ...

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Churches completed in 1938 Camelford