Pendrym
| Pendrym Cornish: Penndrumm | |
| Cornwall | |
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 The church of St Martin-by-Looe | |
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| Grid reference: | SX259550 |
| Location: | 50°22’8"N, 4°26’42"W |
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| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cornwall |
Pendrym is a hamlet in southern Cornwall, which is also the churchtown of the wider parish of St Martin-by-Looe. The parish population at the 2011 census was just 429. The village stands up the hill from Looe, and the parish of St Martin runs down to the cliffs of the sea coast.
To the north, the parish is bordered by Morval parish, to the east by Deviock parish, to the west by Looe parish and to the south by the sea. (Until 1845 the parish also included East Looe, though the latter town was in civic terms a borough in its own right.)
Parish church
The parish church of St Martin of Tours stands outside the civil parish in the hamlet of St Martin about a mile north of Looe town centre. Its Norman doorway is built of Tarton Down stone and probably dates from about 1140. The interior of the church is of typically 15th century appearance, but parts of the building are considerably older.[1]
Thomas Bond, the topographer is buried in the churchyard.[2]
Jonathan Toup, classical scholar, was presented on 28 July 1750 to the rectory of St Martin and held it until his death in 1785.
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References
- ↑ Trevaldwyn and W. M. M. Picken, B. W. J. (1985). Parish Church of St. Martin-by-Looe. Liskeard: Breton Press. p. 4.
- ↑ John Westby-Gibson, ‘Bond, Thomas (1765–1837)’, rev. Christine North, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 23 Jan 2009