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The Grade II* listed Link church of St Newlina stands in a raised churchyard or "lann" in the centre of the village of Newlyn East.
It dates mainly from the C12th through to the early C15th with some very good C19th fittings such as the wooden rood screen.
The fine Bodmin style font dates to the C12th.
There are a splendid set of carved bench-ends to many of the pews in particular those topped with heraldic beasts (mostly feline) which date from the C15th or early C16th. In the C19th more bench-end carvings were added where the mediaeval ones were absent - it is not difficult to tell the two eras apart.

St Newlina (or Newlyna) was a semi-legendary C5th Celtic martyr also known as Noyale or Noaluen. Beheaded by a spurned French nobleman who had wanted to wed her, she picked up her own decapitated head and returned to England with it. She is celebrated in Brittany as well as here in Cornwall. Her feast day is variously 27th April (St Newlyn East), 6th July (Eastern Orthodox Church) or 11th September (Roman Catholic).