St Endellion
| St Endellion | |
| Cornwall | |
|---|---|
 St Endellion Church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SW997786 |
| Location: | 50°34’23"N, 4°49’48"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 987 (2011) |
| Post town: | Port Isaac |
| Postcode: | PL29 |
| Dialling code: | 01208 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cornwall |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
North Cornwall |
St Endellion is a village in north Cornwall, four miles north of Wadebridge.
The parish takes its name from Saint Endelienta, who is said to have evangelized the district in the fifth century and to have been one of the children of King Brychan. Two wells near the village are named after her.
Geography
St Endellion is the Type Locality for the minerals Bournonite (also known as Endellione or Endellionite) and Barstowite.
St Endellion is within the 'Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty', as is almost a third of the county.
The houses at Roscarrock and Tresungers are listed buildings: at Roscarrock part of the mediæval house remains (it is Listed Grade I); Tresungers farmhouse was built in the late 16th century.[1]
Parish church
The parish church of St Endelienta stands beside the road to Wadebridge and is a large building of the 15th century in Perpendicular style. It contains some fine examples of carving in stone and wood.
The earliest record of the church is in 1260 and in 1288 it is recorded as a collegiate church with four prebends; the date of their foundation is unknown. One of the prebends to which was attached the cure of souls came to be entitled the rectory.
The college somehow escaped abolition in 1545 (when only the rector was resident) and continues to the present day: one of the prebendaries is the Rector, and the others usually incumbents of nearby parishes. The prebend of Marnay's or St Elen's is usually held by the incumbent of Lanhydrock.
A new ecclesiastical parish of Port Isaac was created out of the parish in 1913 and one of the prebends became the endowment of that benefice, whose incumbent was a vicar.[2]
Events
Music festivals are held at Easter and at the end of July: they have been held in the summer since 1959 and at Easter since 1974.[3] Some of the musicians involved formed the Endellion Quartet.
Miscellany
In 2010 the then Prime Minister, David Cameron and his wife Samantha named their newborn daughter "Florence Rose Endellion" after the village, as she had been born while the Cameron family were holidaying in Cornwall.[4][5]
In 2014, Dr Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, was installed as a prebendary at St Endellion Church by the Bishop of Truro.[6]
A brand of cheese named St. Endellion is made at Trevarrian, a hamlet near Newquay. It is distinctive, cream enriched and hand-made using only Cornish milk and cream, and made by a family-run concern.[7]
Outside links
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References
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Cornwall, 1951; 1970 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09589-0
- ↑ Cornish Church Guide (1925) Truro: Blackford, pp. 89–91
- ↑ Potter, Jean M. (ed.) (1979) St Endellion: the story of a festival. [St Endellion: Festival, 1979]
- ↑ "Cameron 'proud dad' after wife Samantha has baby girl". BBC News (BBC). 24 August 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11089358. Retrieved 25 August 2010.
- ↑ "Camerons reveal daughter's name". BBC News (BBC). 25 August 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11089358. Retrieved 25 August 2010.
- ↑ "Former Archbishop of Canterbury installed as Endellion church prebend". BBC News (BBC). 22 December 2014. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-30562811. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
- ↑ Cornish Country Larder Ltd
