Duloe, Cornwall
| Duloe Cornish: Dewlogh | |
| Cornwall | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | 2330&y=0 5860&z=120 SX 233 586 |
| Location: | 50°24’-0"N, 4°29’17"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 660 (2001) |
| Post town: | Liskeard |
| Postcode: | PL14 |
| Dialling code: | 01503 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cornwall |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South East Cornwall |
Duloe is a village in Cornwall, found four miles south of Liskeard in the Looe Valley.
Parish church
The parish church of Duloe is dedicated to St Cuby and St Leonard and is an early mediæval building. Its plan is unusual since the tower is at the end of the south transept. The tower is 13th century and an upper stage was added in the Perpendicular style. However this stage was removed in 1861. (There is now no access to the tower from the transept as the archway between was blocked up at an early date.)
There is a north aisle which continues eastwards to form a chancel aisle which is grander in style (though the arches are lower) and was the family chapel of the Colshull family. There is a fine monument here of Sir John Colshull (d. 1483). The effigy of Sir John in full armour lies on a slab of elvan stone on top of a tomb chest ornamented with shields and at the west end a crucifixion. The parclose screen bears coats of arms connected with the Colshulls and may be made up of parts of a rood screen. Both inside and outside the family chapel is more highly ornamented than the rest of the church. Other monuments commemorate Ann Coffyn (d. 1592), John Killiow (d. 1601) and his wife (a tomb chest), Mary Arundell (d. 1629) with a curious epitaph comparing man to the laurel tree, and Henry Bewes (d. 1793). The Coffyn memorial shows her is Elizabethan dress and is of slate; another slate memorial is to two unknown wives and their children, also shown in Elizabethan dress. The Bewes memorial is by William Adron and shows a woman in relief.[1]
Sights of the village and around
The village has a Church of England primary school.
The Duloe stone circle is found here, in a field behind a nearby farm.[2] The "holy well" is half a mile away from the church towards Looe: it is covered by a modern well house.
Outside links
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References
- ↑ Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall; 2nd ed., revised by Enid Radcliffe. Harmondsworth: Penguin; pp. 63-64
- ↑ Aubrey Burl (2005). A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany. Yale University Press. pp. 32–. ISBN 9780300114065. http://books.google.com/books?id=yhWFB1JAjWsC&pg=PA32. Retrieved 22 March 2011.