St Endellion
| St Endellion | |
| Cornish: Sen Endelyn | |
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  St Endellion |
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| Population | 987 (Civil Parish, 2011) |
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| OS grid reference | SW997786 |
| Civil parish | St Endellion |
| Unitary authority | Cornwall |
| Ceremonial county | Cornwall |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | PORT ISAAC |
| Postcode district | PL29 |
| Dialling code | 01208 |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Cornwall |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | North Cornwall |
Coordinates: 50°34′23″N 4°49′48″W / 50.573°N 4.830°W
St Endellion (Cornish: Sen Endelyn) is a civil parish and village in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village and parish church are situated four miles (6.5 km) north of Wadebridge.[1]
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.
An electoral ward exists, which includes Portreath and Rock, with a population at the 2011 census of 3268.[2]
Geography and topography
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St Endellion is the Type Locality for the minerals Bournonite (also known as Endellione or Endellionite) and Barstowite.
St Endellion lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation, with the same status and protection as a National Park.
The houses at Roscarrock and Tresungers are listed buildings: at Roscarrock part of the medieval house remains (it is Listed Grade I); Tresungers farmhouse was built in the late 16th century.[3] The Roscarrock family included Nicholas Roscarrock.
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. It 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.[4]
Annual 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.[5][6] Some of the musicians involved formed the Endellion Quartet.
Notable people
- Nicholas Roscarrock, of Roscarrock in the parish (c. 1548–1634) left an account of the lives of the saints including about 100 from Devon and Cornwall.[7]
- Florence Cameron: on 25 August 2010 it was announced that the British Prime Minister, David Cameron and his wife Samantha had named their newborn daughter "Florence Rose Endellion" after the village,[8] reflecting the fact she was born while the Cameron family were holidaying in Cornwall.[9][10]
- Robert Boheathland, Jamestown colonist
- Dr Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, was installed as a prebendary at St Endellion Church by the Bishop of Truro, the Right Reverend Tim Thornton.[11]
Brands
St. Endellion is also a brie style cheese, made at the hamlet of Trevarrian near Newquay, cream enriched and hand-made using only Cornish milk and cream. The cheese is made by Cornish Country Larder, a firm founded by John Gaylard in the mid-1990s and still a family run concern. The cheese has won many notable awards.[12]
References
- ↑ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 Newquay & Bodmin ISBN 978-0-319-22938-5
- ↑ "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 13 February 2015.
- ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus (1970) Cornwall, 2nd. ed. Penguin Books
- ↑ Cornish Church Guide (1925) Truro: Blackford, pp. 89–91
- ↑ "Endellion Music festivals website". St Endellion Festival. Retrieved 2007-11-01.
- ↑ Potter, Jean M. (ed.) (1979) St Endellion: the story of a festival. [St Endellion: Festival, 1979]
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- ↑ Full name: Florence Rose Endellion Cameron; born at Truro
- ↑ "Cameron 'proud dad' after wife Samantha has baby girl". BBC News. BBC. 24 August 2010. Retrieved 25 August 2010.
- ↑ "Camerons reveal daughter's name". BBC News. BBC. 25 August 2010. Retrieved 25 August 2010.
- ↑ "Former Archbishop of Canterbury installed as Endellion church prebend". BBC News. BBC. 22 December 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
- ↑ Cornish Country Larder Ltd website
External links
Media related to St Endellion at Wikimedia Commons
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