Rebuilding petered out during the middle of the 16th century, The outsides of churches were frozen in time. For the next 300 years the characteristic church in the Cornish (and indeed in the English) landscape was one of the 15th or early 16th century, usually with a tower and aisles. What the builders of the period achieved became what people understood churches to be, an understanding that is still with us.
Nicholas Orme, Cornwall and the Cross, p156
(I love that last phrase)
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