Phillack ( kw, Eglosheyl) is a village (and formerly a parish) in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is about one mile (1.6 km) northeast of Hayle and half-a-mile (0.8 km) inland from

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on Cornwall's Atlantic ocean coast.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 ''Land's End'' The village is separated from the sea by a range of high

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s known as The Towans. Phillack has been in the civil parish of Hayle since 1935; before that it was a separate parish in its own right.
GENUKI website; Phillack. Retrieved June 2010 Phillack parish was originally in Redruth Registration District but the village now comes under Camborne-Redruth Registration District. There is some dispute over the origins of the name. In the 17th century, ''Phillack'' was believed to refer to the Irish Saint Felicitas who is said to have founded Phillack church in the 6th century. However, a 10th-century Vatican Library, Vatican codex mentions a Saint Felec of Cornwall who is believed to have lived about the same time and may be dedicatee of the parish church

Parish church

Phillack church taken from the cemetery - geograph

St Felicitas and St Piala's Church, Phillack St Felicitas and St Piala’s Church, Phillack is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Truro in Phillack, Cornwall, England, UK. History The church dates from the 12th century. The tower is 15th century. It was ...

was originally the parish church also of Hayle: it was built in the 15th century and rebuilt in 1856 by William White but the tower is original. It is part of the Godrevy Team Ministry The font is probably not medieval; half a coped stone is in the churchyard. There were over a 160 year period from 1763 to 1922 four rectors of Phillack belonging to the Hockin family: William (1763-1809), William (1809-1853), Frederick (1853-1902) and Arthur (1902-1922), probably unique among English parishes.

Antiquities

Two early stones have been found embedded in the original village church. One bears a 'Constantine' form of a Chi-Rho cross which may date to the 5th century; it was afterwards rebuilt into the wall directly above the apex of the arch of the doorway of the new church. The second is simple memorial stone bearing the name of "Clo ualus on ofMo ratus", dated between the fifth to eighth centuries, and now stands in the churchyard. Arthur G. Langdon (1896) recorded the existence of six stone crosses in the parish, including two in the churchyard. The others were at Copperhouse, at Bodriggy, in a field and in the rectory garden.Langdon, A. G. (1896) ''Old Cornish Crosses''. Truro: Joseph Pollard Chi-Rho Cross Phillack parish church

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External links

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Phillack Church website
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