[1] The church was built in the 14th and 15th centuries in the Perpendicular Gothic style, and is dedicated to Saint Bryvyth, or Brevita.

[6] In 1858, Samuel Lewis described St Brevita's Church as a "handsome structure of granite, in the later English style, with a lofty embattled tower crowned by pinnacles, and consists of two spacious aisles, separated by a central range of clustered columns.

[9] St Brevita's Church was built in the Perpendicular style out of granite rubble and ashlar.

[2] The organ dated from 1888 and was originally installed in the Methodist Central Hall in St Blazey.

[11] Out of approximately 222 memorials,[12] the churchyard of St Brevita contains numerous Grade II listed monuments: