St Conan's Church, Egloshayle

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St Conan’s Church, Egloshayle
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St Conan’s Church, Egloshayle
St Conan's Church, Egloshayle
50°29′49.2″N4°46′15.96″W / 50.497000°N 4.7711000°W / 50.497000; -4.7711000
Location Egloshayle
Country England
Denomination Church of England
History
Dedication St Conan
Architecture
Heritage designation Grade II listed [1]
Architect(s) James Arthur Reeve
Completed1883
Construction cost£490
Administration
Province Province of Canterbury
Diocese Diocese of Truro
Archdeaconry Bodmin
Deanery Trigg Minor and Bodmin
Parish St Breoke and Egloshalye in Wadebridge

The Church of St Conan is an Anglican church on the A389 road near Washaway in Egloshayle, Cornwall, England, UK.

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History

Built at a cost of £490 with designs by James Arthur Reeve of Norwich, [2] the church was opened for worship on 23 July 1883. [3] The stonemasons responsible for its construction were Gill and Cleave of Egloshayle, while the carpentry work was undertaken by Mr Williams of Egloshayle. The granite work was provided by Mr Evans from the firm of Doney and Evans.

It reportedly has an ancient font of Saxon origin. [4] This font came from Lanteglos-by-Camelford; it is similar to one at Morwenstow but has much decoration of a Celtic character. Nikolaus Pevsner dated it as c. 1100 or earlier. [5] There is a fine pulpit, possibly of German workmanship. [6]

The church became a Grade II listed building on 4 November 1988. [7]

The saint to whom the church is dedicated may have been Conan who was associated with St Petroc; another possibility is that he is Conan who was Bishop of St Germans in the 930s. St Conan's feast is celebrated on 23 July. [8]

Parish status

The church is in a joint parish with:

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References

  1. Historic England. "Church of St Conan (Grade II) (1311012)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 28 September 2015.
  2. The Building News and Engineering Journal. 1883. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
  3. "Opening of a new church at Washaway" . Royal Cornwall Gazette. Falmouth. 27 July 1883. Retrieved 27 September 2015 via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. Jewitt, Llewellyn Frederick William; Cox, John Charles; Allen, John Romilly (1902). The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist: a quarterly journal and review devoted to the study of early pagan and Christian antiquities of Great Britain. J. R. Smith. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
  5. Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall; 2nd ed. revised by Enid Radcliffe. Harmondsworth: Penguin; p. 239
  6. Pevsner (1970); p. 239
  7. "Church of St Conan, Egloshayle". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
  8. Ellis, P. B. (1992) The Cornish Saints. Penryn: Tor Mark Press, p. 8