St. Cleer

Cleer

I visited St. Cleer in early October 2016, primarily to look inside the church which I had not done previously. My only previous visits to St. Cleer had been when doing one of Mark Camp's Bodmin Moor round walks, this walk from Minions including Trethevy Quoit, King Doniert's Stone and the Minons Longstone. St. Cleer is a couple miles due north of Liskeard and about the same distance south-south west of Minions. One of Cornwall's finest portal dolmens, Trethevy Quoit, is about 1 mile to the north-east. While the church is the most noticeable feature of the village, the well house, north-east of the church, down Well Lane, is notable. The pretty building is 15th century; alongside it stands a much earlier Cornish Cross. St. Clarus church, at the top of the hill, is mostly 15th century, restored in the 19th. By the porch is a small Cornish Cross; inside the porch is a carved roof boss and, of all things an old plough. Inside the church are barrel vaulted ceilings, a screen complete with rood, colourful altars, some good stained glass, including one modern window, and a "millennium map" of the parish. The font is 13th century. A 1614 slate monument is to Robert Langeford. Verses from the bible adorn the walls. There are two pubs in the village, the Stag and the Market Inn. Behind the church is a fair sized free car park and toilets.

At junction of minor roads, halfway tween Liskeard and Minions

St. Cleer's Holy Well and Cornish Cross

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