St Petrox Church (the more common spelling, although St Petroc is also used) sits within the castle grounds, it's large tower almost overshadowing the castle.
The name came be easily broken down to pet - roc, peter - rock, i.e. St Peter the Rock, and there was an early christian church on that site well before the present church, built (according to records) in 1641.
Inside, there is a definite air of antiquity from the cool well-worn stone flags to the various memorials and markers of lives gone by.
Here Parliamentarian troops quartered themselves in definance of church, as they took and held the castle for their cause during the Englsh Civil war.
All churches have some atmosphere to them, I suppose, but the quiet and calm of St Petroc's - for me anyway - had a definite feel of hisorical splendour and times lived and breathed. read more