St Ive
- Not to be confused with St Ives, Cornwall
| St Ive | |
| Cornwall | |
|---|---|
 Cottage and church at St Ive | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SX311672 |
| Location: | 50°28’48"N, 4°22’55"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 2,205 (2011) |
| Post town: | Liskeard |
| Postcode: | PL14 |
| Dialling code: | 01579 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cornwall |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South East Cornwall |
St Ive (pronounced "St Eev") is a village in eastern Cornwall. The village is split into four hamlets::
- St Ive Church End
- St Ive Cross
- St Ive Keason and
- St Ive Parkfield.
History and geography
The parish used to be a large rural area of rolling landscape with wooded valleys and the population was sparse with the largest village being St Ive itself, sited on the A390.
The hamlet of Woolston lies to the northwest of St Ive. The demography of the parish was radically altered with the mid-Victorian mining boom centred on Caradon Hill. South Caradon Mine situated just over the parish border was at one time the largest and most prosperous copper mine in the world.
Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, politician and sociologist, and his sister Emily Hobhouse, the social activist, were both born in St Ive.
Parish church
The parish church is probably dedicated to St Ive, identified with St Ivo of Huntingdonshire, a supposedly Persian bishop whose body was conveniently found at by the monks at Slepe in 1001, though the identification with this saint is not certain.[1]
The building is mainly 14th century and similar to the church of South Hill, though more elaborate in detail. The consecration of the church in 1338 is recorded in the diocesan register. The south aisle, south porch and the top of the tower were added either in the 15th or early 16th century: (the tower has 12 pinnacles). The pulpit is dated 1700 but is in the Jacobean style. A monument to J. Lyne, d. 1791, is by Robert Isbell; another monument to a member of the Wrey family, formerly of Trebeigh Manor within the parish, was moved to their principal seat of Tawstock, Devon, in 1924.[2]
Trebeigh Manor
Trebeigh, St Ive, in Cornwall was a manor listed in Domesday Book as held by the Earl of Mortain, the largest landholder in that county. He is said to have taken it away wrongfully from the church.
Contrary to popular belief, the manor was never owned by the Knights Templar.
In 1338 Trebeigh belonged to the Hospital of St John or Knights Hospitaller and formed the Preceptory of Trebeigh. The Order's records state that two Hospitallers were living there, and that they had a dwelling house with a garden, dovecote and watermill.[3]
Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Hospitallers were dissolved in England and the manor of Trebeigh was granted by Queen Elizabeth I in 1573 to Henry Wilbye and George Blyke, from whom it was acquired by John Wrey,[4] who made it his family's chief seat until his descendants inherited Tawstock in Devon from the Bourchiers in 1654.[5] The family owned the Wheal Wrey mine in the parish.
Outside links
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References
- ↑ Orme, Nicholas: The Saints of Cornwall (Oxford University Press, 2000) ISBN 0-19-820765-4, pages 148–149
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Cornwall, 1951; 1970 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09589-0page 179
- ↑ Lambert B. Larking, ed. (with introduction by John Mitchell Kemble), The Knights Hospitallers in England: Being the Report of Prior Philip de Thame to the Grand Master Elyan de Villanova for A.D. 1338, Camden Society 1st series 65 (London: Camden Society, 1857), pp. 15–16.
- ↑ Trebeigh Manor - British Listed Buildings
- ↑ Vivian, (ed.), Heralds' Visitations of Devon, 1895, p.107
