St Keyne
| St Keyne | |
| Cornwall | |
|---|---|
 St Keyne church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SX241610 |
| Location: | 50°25’21"N, 4°28’37"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 492 (2011) |
| Post town: | Liskeard |
| Postcode: | PL14 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cornwall |
St Keyne is a village in eastern Cornwall, which lies between the parishes of Liskeard and Duloe. The parish of St Keyne had a recorded population of just 492 at the 2011 census.
In the Victorian Age, the well in St Keyne had the reputation of conferring supremacy to the marriage partner who first tasted it. ("The quality, that man and wife / Whose chance, or choice, attaines / First of this sacred stream to drinke / Thereby the mastery gains.") There was also a ballad called ″The Well of St Keyne″.[1]
Parish church
The parish church is dedicated to Saint Keyne, said to be one of the daughters of the legendary Welsh King Brychan. The church is of little architectural interest. The north aisle, in the Perpendicular Gothic style, has probably been added to a church originally cruciform in plan (its windows however are Decorated Gothic, no doubt reused). The west tower is of three storeys and without buttresses.[2]
The village is served by a railway station, the delightfully named St Keyne Wishing Well Halt, on the picturesque Looe Valley Line.
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References
- ↑ "Local News". The Cornishman (86): p. 5. 4 March 1880.
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Cornwall, 1951; 1970 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09589-0page 186
