Feock
| Feock Cornish: Lannfyek | |
| Cornwall | |
|---|---|
 Feock | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SW824384 |
| Location: | 50°12’22"N, 5°3’-0"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 3,752 (2011, parish) |
| Post town: | Truro |
| Postcode: | TR3 |
| Dialling code: | 01872 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cornwall |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Truro and Falmouth |
Feock is a coastal village in Cornwall, about five miles south of Truro at the head of the Carrick Roads, where the River Fal open into the roadstead. To the south, the parish is bordered by Restronguet Creek and to the east by Carrick Roads and the River Fal. To the north it is bordered by Kea parish and to the west by Perranarworthal parish.
Feock parish includes the villages of Carnon Downs, Chycoose, Devoran, Goon Piper, Harcourt, Killiganoon, Penelewey, Penpol, Porthgwidden, Restronguet Point, Trevilla, and Trelissick.
At Feock is Trelissick Garden, a National Trust property.
The King Harry Ferry takes cars across the Fal to Philleigh and the Roseland Peninsula.[1]
Feock is within the 'Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty', as is almost a third of the county.
Parish church
The Parish Church is dedicated to St Feoca, about whom very little is known. Although the saint is usually assumed to have been female, Hals described a stained glass window in the church with St Feock portrayed as a man.[2] The church has a 13th-century tower and font, the remainder being 19th-century.[3]
As late as 1640, according to Hals, the sacrament was administered by the Reverend William Jackson in Cornish, as the people understood no other language.[4][5]
Feock feast was observed on 2 February.[6]
Trelissick Garden
Trelissick Garden has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1955 when it was donated by Ida Copeland following the death of her son Geoffrey, a stained glass memorial—bearing the Copeland Crest—remains to this effect in the small church in Feock.
Pictures
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Separate Bell-tower at Feock Church -
Window representing the Risen Christ, at Feock Church -
Penpol Methodist Chapel
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Feock) |
References
- ↑ Information on Feock from GENUKI
- ↑ Doble, G. H. (1964) The Saints of Cornwall: part 3. Truro: Dean and Chapter; pp. 53-56
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Cornwall, 1951; 1970 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09589-0page 68
- ↑ Hals Parochial History of Cornwall. (Unpublished Manuscript). In E. D. Marquand (1882) "Meetings of the Society". Transcriptions of the Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society.
- ↑ Victor, Bernard (1 May 1879). "An Essay of the Ancient Cornish Language, With a Glossary.". The Cornishman (42): p. 6.
- ↑ Cornish Church Guide (1925) Truro: Blackford; p. 10
- St. Feock: the saint, the church, the parish by C. D. North (?2003)