The church at St Michael Caerhays - geograph

St Michael Caerhays () is a

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and village in

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, England, United Kingdom. The village is about south-southwest of

St Austell Saint Austell (, ; ) is a town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, south of Bodmin and west of the border with Devon. At the 2021 Census in the United Kingdom, census it had a population of 20,900. History St Austell was a village centred ...

. The population as of the 2011 census was 96 St Michael Caerhays lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The

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was a chapelry of St Stephen in Brannel until 1832. From the 16th century the Rectors of St Stephen resided here so the church of St Michael came to be regarded as the mother church. The church is Norman but the Lady Chapel was added in the 15th century by the Trevanions and it contains their monuments. Their home was on the site of Caerhayes Castle. Caerhays Castle, a picturesque castellated mansion, is situated half-a-mile south of the village and was built by John Nash for J. B. Trevanion in 1808.Pevsner, N. (1970) ''Cornwall''; 2nd ed. Penguin; p. 192

Notable people

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, (1864 – 1946), was a priest in the Church of England who gave up his living and went to Southwark, where he became known among the poor as the 'modern St Anthony'. He was rector of this parish 1893–99.

Cornish wrestling

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tournaments, for prizes, were held in Caerhays in the 1800s.Tripp, Michael: ''PERSISTENCE OF DIFFERENCE: A HISTORY OF CORNISH WRESTLING'', University of Exeter as a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2009, Vol I p2-217.

References

External links

GENUKI website; St Michael Caerhays

Cornwall Record Office Online Catalogue for St Michael Caerhays
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Notable people

Cornish wrestling

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