Landrake
| Landrake Cornish: Lannergh | |
| Cornwall | |
|---|---|
.jpg) St Michael's Church, Landrake | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SX374606 |
| Location: | 50°25’21"N, 4°17’23"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,082 (2011) |
| Post town: | Saltash |
| Postcode: | PL12 |
| Dialling code: | 01752 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cornwall |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South East Cornwall |
Landrake is a village in south-eastern Cornwall, about three miles west of Saltash.
The village is a sizable place by Cornish standards – it has a post office and shop, a pub (the Bullers Arms and Sir Robert Geffery's School, a primary school. The school takes its name from Sir Robert Geffery, born in the village, who in 1704, bequeathed money to set up a trust to educate children of the parish.[1]
The A38 trunk road used to pass through Landrake but a bypass now takes the traffic north of the village.
Church
Landrake Church is dedicated to St Michael. It stands on a hill and the tower is 100 feet high. Parts of the building are Norman but the majority is of the 15th century.
The church contains a brass monument to Edward Cowrtney, 1509.[2]
King Edmund gave the parish of Landerch to Bishop Burhwold in exchange for land in Devon;[3] in 1018 this gift was confirmed by King Cnut who declared the gift had really been for the benefit of the monastery of St Germans where the bishop had his see. The gift included the parish of Landrake with its chapel of St Erney; these continued to be held by the monastery after the see was moved to Devon. In 1269 a vicarage was established whereby the vicar received the small tithes of Landrake and St Erney and the great tithe was kept by the monastery.[4]
Outside links
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References
- ↑ Sir Robert Geffery's School
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Cornwall, 1951; 1970 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09589-0page 87-88
- ↑ It is not known when the bishop became bishop of Cornwall, the earliest possible date is 1002.
- ↑ Cornish Church Guide (1925) Truro: Blackford; p. 126
