St Sampson's features in Simon Jenkins's book England's Thousand Best Churches, in which it is described as "warm and welcoming".

[1] The poet John Betjeman remarked that its pews were "extremely uncomfortable, recall the fidgets of Gus and Flora in Ravenshoe".

[citation needed] He sometimes stayed in Golant while travelling to Brittany and became the archbishop of Dol.

There is now a footpath, the Saints' Way, popular with walkers which runs from Padstow on the north coast to Fowey passing through the village and past the church.

A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register The Vicars of Golant:[4] Media related to St Samson's Church, Golant at Wikimedia Commons