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Cornwall

St Tudy Parish is in the Deanery of Trigg Minor.

St Veep Church is in St Veep parish near Lostwithiel.

It is known that there was a Norman chapel on the site of the present church, but the only fragment remaining of this chapel is the tympanum over t

There has been a church here since the 13th century although the present building is greatly restored. 

St Piran's Oratory was buried under sand by the Department of the Environment in 1980

 

Parish Minutes 193/80

The name Pelynt is a corruption of the Celtic PLU-NENT which means "the Parish of St Nonna".  The church was dedicated to St Nonna, the mother of S

Paul Church was burned by a Spanish raiding party in July 1595, and was rebuilt in 1600. 

The medieval church of St Piran, on Perran Sands, was built in about 1150, following the inundation of St Piran's Oratory by the dunes.

This questionnaire combines the two churches of St Cuby and Cornelly, and was completed by a volunteer working on the Religious History project.

This questionnaire was completed by a volunteer working on the project

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