Coordinates: 50°19′53″N 4°48′53″W / 50.3314°N 4.8148°W
| St Mewan | |
| Cornish: Sen Mewen | |
.png)  St Mewan
St Mewan shown within Cornwall |
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| Population | 3,071 (Civil Parish, 2001) |
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| OS grid reference | |
| Parish | St Mewan |
| Unitary authority | Cornwall |
| Ceremonial county | Cornwall |
| Region | South West |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | ST. AUSTELL |
| Postcode district | PL26 |
| Dialling code | 01726 |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Cornwall |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| European Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | Truro & St Austell |
| List of places: UK • England • Cornwall | |
St Mewan (Cornish: Sen Mewen) is a small village, as well as a civil and eccesiastical parish, in south Cornwall, United Kingdom. The nearest town is St Austell, one mile to the north east.
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The village
The village is a small settlement, now mainly comprising the parish church and rectory, a school, and some nearby farmhouses.
The church is dedicated to Saint Mewan, a sixth-century Celtic saint who was born in Wales, visited Cornwall, and is mostly venerated in Brittany. The current building dates from the 13th century and is mentioned in a bishops' inquisition of 1294 as the 'Ecclesia de St Mewany'.[1] It was, however, substantially rebuilt in 1854 by George Edmund Street[2] and enlarged in 1890.[3] The church tower is of only two stages and is built of granite blocks. Local legend suggests that the original builders were prevented from raising it higher by the devil, who threw down their stones each night.[4]
St Mewan Community Primary School[5] was founded (as St Mewan Board School) in the nineteenth century, the main building being designed by Silvanus Trevail in 1874. The schoolmaster's house had previously been the St Mewan Inn.[6] The school currently has around 400 pupils.[7]
St Mewan Beacon
This natural landmark lies some distance from the village, to the north-west of Trewoon. It is a tor exposure of quartz-topaz-tourmaline rocks that has been made a SSSI for its geological interest.[8] St Mewan Beacon was studied by Cornish mining engineer and mineralogist Joseph Henry Collins who published an account of it in 1914.[9][10]
The parish
St Mewan parish includes the villages of Sticker, Trelowth, Trewoon, and most of Polgooth.[11]
References
- ^ http://http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~marcie/kernow/stmewan.html
- ^ N. Pevsner, Cornwall, 2nd ed. p.191. Penguin Books (1970)
- ^ http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Mewan.html
- ^ W. Penaluna, An Historical survey of the County of Cornwall vol.2, p.93 (1838)
- ^ ref>http://www.st-mewan.cornwall.sch.uk/
- ^ http://www.luxsoft.demon.co.uk/sts/schools.html
- ^ http://www.school-index.co.uk/urn/111896.php
- ^ http://www.english-nature.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1001071.pdf
- ^ J.H. Collins & F.Coon, On the topaz rock of St Mewan Beacon, Cornwall, Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Vol.XV, 43-54 (1914)
- ^ http://www.minersoc.org/pages/msinfo/Bristow%20Article%20on%20Collins.pdf
- ^ http://www.stmewanparishcouncil.co.uk/idbuilder.nsf/ids/0004C2DA
External links
- Genuki page on St Mewan
- Cornwall Record Office Online Catalogue for St Mewan
- St Mewan Parish Council
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