{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox church |name = St Breaca’s Church, Breage |full_name = |image = Breage Parish Church (Taken by Flickr user 13th August 2013).jpg |image_size = |imagelink = |alt = |landscape = |caption = St Breage’s Church, Breage |coordinates = {{coord|50|06|29.46|N|5|19|55.42|W|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline,title}} |osgraw = <!-- TEXT --> |location = Breage |country = Great Britain

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|parish = Breage with Godolphin and Ashton |deanery = Kerrier |archdeaconry = Cornwall |diocese = Diocese of Truro |province = Province of Canterbury |succentor = |rector = |vicar = |priest = |pastor = |abbot = |embedded = {{Infobox historic site | embed = yes | locmapin = Cornwall | designation1 = Grade I | designation1_offname = Church of St Breaca | designation1_date = 10 July 1957 | designation1_number = {{listed building England|1158264}} }} }} '''Breage Parish Church''' is the Anglican parish church of the parish of Breage, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is dedicated to Saint Breage or Breaca, said to have been an Irish nun who came to Cornwall in the 5th century.

==Description== The church was built of granite in the 15th century; it has two aisles separated from the nave by granite arcades of standard design. On the north wall are five medieval wall paintings: four saints are portrayed, Ambrose, Christopher, Corentine and Hilary (there are fragmentary ones also), and the ''Warning to the Sabbath-Breakers'', one of the finest examples in the country of a Sunday Christ. Another fine example is to be found a few miles away in St Just. A Roman milestone of the 3rd century is preserved in the church and in the churchyard there is an unusual Hiberno-Saxon cross head.<ref>Pevsner, N. ''Buildings of England: Cornwall'' (1951; 1970) (rev. Enid Radcliffe) Penguin Books (reissued by Yale U. P.) {{ISBN|0-300-09589-9}}; p. 46</ref> The inscription on the milestone is: IMP [C] DO NO MARC CASSI: this incomplete text refers to the Emperor (Marcus Cassianus) Postumus, 258-68 AD (Collingwood, RIB no. 2232).<ref>{{cite book |title=The Roman Inscriptions of Britain. I: Inscriptions on stone |last=Collingwood |first=R. G.|year=1965 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford |author2=Wright, R. P.}}</ref> The church reopened on feast day, 26 December 1879, following the restoration of the chancel which was enlarged and choir stalls provided. The roof was repaired, walls plastered and the floor pointed. The church contains the vault of the Godolphin family.<ref>{{cite news|title=St Breage Church: Re-opened After Restoration|work=The Cornishman|issue=77|date=1 January 1880|page=5}}</ref>

==History== After the Norman Conquest the church of Breage was of interest to three lords: the bishop of Exeter, who held the manor of Methleigh; the earl of Cornwall, who held the manor of Winnianton; and the earl of Gloucester, who held the manor of Binnerton.<ref>''Cornish Church Guide'' (1925) Truro: Blackford; pp. 63-64</ref> In the 12th century the earl of Gloucester (Lord of the manor of Binnerton) gave the church to the abbey of Tewkesbury but in this he exceeded his legal power and after eighty-six years the earl of Cornwall intervened and bestowed it on the abbey of Hailes. The parish of Breage had, until the 19th century, the unusual feature of dependent parochial chapels at Germoe, Cury and Gunwalloe, the last two being added to it in 1246 by the Earl.<ref>''Cornish Church Guide'' (1925) Truro: Blackford; pp. 63-64</ref>

==Organ== The organ was built by Henry Willis and Sons for Thomas Robins Bolitho. It then moved to Truro Cathedral and was rebuilt in Breage in 1968 by Hele & Co of Plymouth. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.<ref>{{National Pipe Organ Register|D07638|accessdate=28 September 2015}}</ref>

==Gallery== <gallery> Image:Breage st breaca 001.JPG|St. Breaca's church Image:DSCN1522BreageChurchView.jpg|View of the church Image:DSCN1528BreageChurchTower.jpg|Church tower Image:DSCN1519BreageChurchPorch.jpg|Church porch Image:DSCN1526BreageChurchSundial.jpg|Sundial over doorway of the porch Image:DSCN1524BreageChurchyard.jpg|Churchyard Image:DSCN1520BreageChurchCross.jpg|Ancient cross in churchyard Image:Breage st breaca 002.JPG|Nave Image:Breage st breaca 004.JPG|Altar Image:Breage st breaca 005.JPG|Frescos Image:Breage st breaca 006.JPG|Frescos Image:Breage st breaca 007.JPG|Fresco of St. Christopher </gallery>

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