St Breage's Church, Breage

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St Breage’s Church, Breage
St Breage's Church, Breage
50°06′29.46″N5°19′55.42″W / 50.1081833°N 5.3320611°W / 50.1081833; -5.3320611
Location Breage
Country Great Britain
Denomination Church of England
History
Dedication St Breaca
Administration
Province Province of Canterbury
Diocese Diocese of Truro
Archdeaconry Cornwall
Deanery Kerrier
Parish Breage with Godolphin and Ashton
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Location of St Breage's Church, Breage in Cornwall
Listed Building – Grade I
Official nameChurch of St Breaca
Designated10 July 1957
Reference no. 1158264

Breage Parish Church is the Anglican parish church of the parish of Breage, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is dedicated to Saint Breage or Breaca, said to have been an Irish nun who came to Cornwall in the 5th-century.

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Description

The church was built of granite in the 15th-century: it has two aisles separated from the nave by granite arcades of standard design. On the north wall are five medieval wall paintings: four saints are portrayed, Ambrose, Christopher, Corentine and Hilary (there are fragmentary ones also), and the Warning to the Sabbath-Breakers, one of the finest examples in the country of a Sunday Christ. Another fine example is to be found a few miles away in St Just. A Roman milestone of the 3rd-century is preserved in the church and in the churchyard there is an unusual Hiberno-Saxon cross head. [1] The inscription on the milestone is: IMP [C] DO NO MARC CASSI: this incomplete text refers to the Emperor (Marcus Cassianus) Postumus, 258-68 AD (Collingwood, RIB no. 2232). [2] The church reopened on feast day, 26 December 1879, following the restoration of the chancel which was enlarged and choir stalls provided. The roof was repaired, walls plastered and the floor pointed. The church contains the vault of the Godolphin family. [3]

History

After the Norman Conquest the church of Breage was of interest to three lords: the Bishop of Exeter who held the manor of Methleigh, the Earl of Cornwall who held the manor of Winnianton, and the Earl of Gloucester who held the manor of Binnerton. [4] In the 12th-century the Earl of Gloucester (Lord of the manor of Binnerton) gave the church to the abbey of Tewkesbury but in this he exceeded his legal power and after eighty-six years the Earl of Cornwall intervened and bestowed it on the abbey of Hailes. The parish of Breage had until the 19th-century the unusual feature of dependent parochial chapels at Germoe, Cury and Gunwalloe, the last two being added to it in 1246 by the Earl. [5]

Organ

The organ was built by Henry Willis and Sons for Thomas Robins Bolitho. It then moved to Truro Cathedral and was rebuilt in Breage in 1968 by Hele & Co of Plymouth. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Pevsner, N. Buildings of England: Cornwall (1951; 1970) (rev. Enid Radcliffe) Penguin Books (reissued by Yale U. P.) ISBN   0-300-09589-9; p. 46
  2. ↑ Collingwood, R. G.; Wright, R. P. (1965). The Roman Inscriptions of Britain. I: Inscriptions on stone. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  3. ↑ "St Breage Church: Re-opened After Restoration". The Cornishman. No. 77. 1 January 1880. p. 5.
  4. ↑ Cornish Church Guide (1925) Truro: Blackford; pp. 63-64
  5. ↑ Cornish Church Guide (1925) Truro: Blackford; pp. 63-64
  6. ↑ "NPOR [D07638]". National Pipe Organ Register . British Institute of Organ Studies . Retrieved 28 September 2015.
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