St Gluvias is a settlement in
Cornwall
Cornwall (; or ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is also one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, ...
, England, United Kingdom. The village is now a suburb on the northern edge of
Penryn which is northwest of
Falmouth. Until 1 April 2021 there was a civil parish called St Gluvias which doesn't include the suburb but it was renamed to
Ponsanooth
Ponsanooth (, meaning "bridge of the goose") is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is about four miles southeast of Redruth and two and a half miles northwest of Penryn on the A393 road Redruth to Falmouth road. ...
.
Church history
The historic parish church of St Gluvias, dedicated to
Gluvias of Cornwall (or Gluviacus) serves the Church of England parish of St Gluvias with
Penryn. Gluvias of Cornwall was the son of Gwynllyw the warrior, King of Gwentlog, and a nephew of
St Petroc
Petroc or Petrock (; ; ; ) was a British prince and Christian saint.
Probably born in South Wales, he primarily ministered to the Britons of Devon (Dewnens) and Cornwall (Kernow) then forming the kingdom of Dumnonia where he is associated wit ...
. The church was founded in the 6th century and the parish was in the Middle Ages sometimes called Behethlan or Bohelland. In 1881 the church was in a dilapidated state and in need of thorough repair. It was rebuilt by
J. P. St Aubyn in 1883 although the medieval tower survived and is built of blocks of granite. The church contains the brass of Thomas Kyllygrewe, c. 1485. There are also three wall-monuments of interest: Samuel Pendarves, d. 1693, and his wife; William Pendarves, d. 1671, and his wife (both are curiously positioned with the figures which should face each other on either side of the corners of a window opening); and J. Kempe, d. 1711, bust under drapery.
The Wesleyan missionary
Benjamin Carvosso was born in this parish.
Samuel Argall
Sir Samuel Argall ( or 1580 – ) was an English sea captain, navigator, and Deputy-Governour of Virginia, an English colony.
As a sea captain, in 1609, Argall was the first to determine a shorter northern route from England across the Atlan ...
was buried here on 28 January 1626.
There are two Cornish crosses in the parish; one at Enys and one at Penryn. The cross at Enys was originally at
Sancreed
Sancreed () is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, approximately three miles (5 km) west of Penzance.
Sancreed civil parish encompasses the settlements of Bejouans, Bosvennen, Botreah ...
and was set up at Enys in 1848. The small cross at Penryn was once built into the fish market; when this was pulled down the cross was saved and resited near the town hall in 1895.
[Langdon, A. G. (1896) ''Old Cornish Crosses''. Truro: Joseph Pollard; pp. 47–48 & 177]
File:Chapel at Laity Moor - geograph.org.uk - 161020.jpg, A former Methodist chapel at Laity Moor, now a Greek Orthodox church
File:Cornish Cross (5689914565).jpg, The Cornish cross at Enys
See also
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Enys family of Enys in Cornwall
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Glasney College
Glasney College () was founded in 1265 at Penryn, Cornwall, by Bishop Bronescombe and was a centre of ecclesiastical power in medieval Cornwall and probably the best known and most important of Cornwall's religious institutions.
History
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Tremough
References
* Brown, H. Miles (1945) ''A Cornish Incumbency, 1741-1776 (John Penrose of St Gluvias)''.
endron? H. M. Brown
External links
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Populated places in Cornwall
Penryn, Cornwall
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