The parish church is dedicated to St Bartholomew and was designed by William Butterfield. It dates from 1850 when, due to their poor condition, the nave and the chancel were completely rebuilt at a cost of £7000 which was largely borne by the Bastard family.
The ancient monuments from the mediaeval church were replaced in the new church when it was rebuilt. The tower, which contains 6 bells, was built in 1915 at a cost of £2000, replacing the tower of the mediaeval church. The most recent renovation took place in 1990 when the roof was once again replaced at a cost of £100,000, two thirds of which was met by English Heritage.
https://yemc.org/parish/yealmpton/
St Bartholomew’s Church 77 Church Lane, Yealmpton PL8 2HG.
https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/9161/
Historic England Parish church. Rebuilt in 1850 by William Butterfield. Tower of 1915. Coursed stone and ashlar, with freestone dressings. Slate roofs. Decorated style. Comprising:- nave, chancel, north and south aisles, north and south transepts, south porch and later west tower. Decorated windows with rectilinear, intersecting and foiled tracery. Buttreses with set-offs. 1915 west tower in three stages with pinnacles and battlements. The exterior is unremarkable in contrast to the interior where the walls have bands of black marble following the lines of the window arches and arcades. In the chancel diaper pattern and polychromatic friezes.
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1306637
The monument includes an early Christian memorial stone located 10m west of the church tower in Yealmpton churchyard. It consists of a granite slab 1.83m high, 0.49m by 0.27m wide at its base, tapering to 0.4m by 0.18m wide at a point 0.3m from the rounded top. On its east face, the inscription GOREUS in Roman capitals is inscribed vertically down the stone with the letters on their sides, roughly cut into the surface. The west side has three oval holes cut into it. These are about 8cm wide by 11cm high and about 10cm deep. Previous reports suggest that the stone was used as a gatepost and was moved to its present position in 1851. The stone is set upright in the churchyard between a retaining wall and a table tomb, both of 19th century date. The Goreus Stone is Listed Grade II*. The retaining wall and tomb, where these fall within the stone's 2m protective margin are excluded from the scheduling, although the ground beneath them is included.
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1019240
Goreus Stone
Celtic Inscribed Stones Project
Okasha/1993, p338, discusses the likelihood that the stone was associated with a burial inside the churchyard, while Thomas/1994, p290, argues that the GOREUS commemorated was a priest.
Okasha, E. (1993) Corpus of Early Christian Inscribed Stones of South-west Britain. Leicester: Leicester University Press.
Thomas, A. C. (1994) And Shall These Mute Stones Speak? Post-Roman Inscriptions in Western Britain. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/site/ylmpn.html
Okasha/1993, 338: 'The stone was first recorded in 1797 by Polwhele when it was described as 'lying...in the church-yard' and 'being somewhat sunk in the earth by its weight, its thickness does not appear'...Gough, shows the stone lying on its side [and] also gave the information that a Mr Jones had had 'the grave opened, but he did not find any thing but the remains of bones'...By 1929 it was standing in front of the west end of the church'.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/stone/ylmpn_1.html