St Mewan
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| OS grid reference | [[[:Template:Ordnance Survey url]] SW998517] |
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| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | ST. AUSTELL |
| Postcode district | PL26 |
| Dialling code | 01726 |
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| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Cornwall |
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St Mewan (Template:Langx) is a civil parish and village in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) west of St Austell.[1] It is a small settlement, comprising the parish church, rectory, a school and nearby farms.
St Mewan parish also includes the settlements of Hewas Water, Sticker, Trelowth, Trewoon, and most of Polgooth.[2] At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 3,315.[3]
For elections to Cornwall Council, St Mewan is in the St Mewan and Grampound electoral ward. It was in the St Mewan electoral ward (which also included neighbouring villages) from 2005 to 2021.
Parish church
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'.[4] It was, however, substantially rebuilt in 1854 by George Edmund Street[5] and enlarged in 1890.[6] 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.[7]
Education
St Mewan Community Primary School 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.[8] As of 2009[update], the school had around 400 pupils.[9][needs update]Template:DMCA
St Mewan Beacon
This natural landmark lies some distance[specify] from the village, to the north-west of Trewoon. It is a tor exposure of quartz-topaz-tourmaline rocks that has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for its geological characteristics.[10] St Mewan Beacon was studied by Cornish mining engineer and mineralogist Joseph Henry Collins who published an account of it in 1914.[11][12]
References
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- ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 Newquay & Bodmin Template:ISBN
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."St Mewan Parish Council St Mewan Cornwall Sticker Cornwall Trewoon Cornwall Polgooth Cornwall Trelowth Cornwall Hewas Water Cornwall Local Council". Archived from the original on 7 February 2009. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Parish Profiles". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Parish of St Mewan". Homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
- ^ N. Pevsner, Cornwall, 2nd ed. p.191. Penguin Books (1970)
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- ^ W. Penaluna, An Historical survey of the County of Cornwall vol.2, p.93 (1838)
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Schools designed by Silvanus Trevail". Luxsoft.demon.co.uk. Archived from the original on 20 October 2014. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."St Mewan Beacon" (PDF). Natural England. 1993. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
- ^ 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)
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External links
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