St Juliot Church nr Boscastle - geograph

St Juliot is a

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in north-east

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, England, United Kingdom. The parish is entirely rural and the settlements within it are the hamlets of

Beeny Beeny is a Hamlet (place), hamlet in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, UK. It is in a sheltered valley near the coast two miles (3 km) north-east of Boscastle. Literary allusions Very specifically there is a poem by Thomas Hardy, pe ...

and

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. - plus a part of the adjacent village of Marshgate. The parish population at the 2011 census was 328.

History

The manor of St Juliot was recorded in the Domesday Book (1086) when it was held by Thurstan from

Robert, Count of Mortain Robert, Count of Mortain, 2nd Earl of Cornwall (–) was a Norman nobleman and the half-brother (on their mother's side) of King William the Conqueror. He was one of the very few proven companions of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastin ...

. There was 1 virgate of land and land for 3 ploughs. There were half a plough, 2 serfs, 2 villeins, 30 acres of pasture and 2 cows. The value of the manor was 5 shillings though it had formerly been worth 7 shillings.

Parish Church

St Julitta's church is dedicated to St Julitta (Juliot) and stands in an isolated location above the valley of the

River Valency The River Valency ( kw, Dowr an Velinji) is a short river in north Cornwall, England, UK, with many small tributaries. After running past Lesnewth it cuts a valley before entering the sea at the harbour of the village of Boscastle. One of its tri ...

at The parish church of Lanteglos by Camelford and the castle chapel at

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are also dedicated to St Julitta. The chapel of St Julitta was acquired in 1238 by the canons of St Stephens by Launceston and before 1269 was annexed to their church of St Gennys. At the Reformation it was separated from St Gennys and became a donative served by perpetual curates who were paid £7 annually. It became a rectory in 1865. There was formerly a north transept which was removed in the

Victorian restoration The Victorian restoration was the widespread and extensive refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria. It was not the same proce ...

. The tower is of three stages; the south aisle is built of granite and has one additional bay east of the end of the nave. Features of interest include the vaulted granite south porch and a relief in bronze of the

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which is the work of an Italian 16th century Mannerist. There are two Cornish crosses in the churchyard. The parish now belongs to the Boscastle group of Anglican parishes. St Julitta's feast is celebrated on the last Sunday in June or the first Sunday in July.''The Cornish Church Guide'' (1925) Truro: Blackford; p. 12

Thomas Hardy

In 1870 the famous British

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, short story writer, and poet

Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Word ...

was sent to plan a church restoration at St Juliot. There he met Emma Gifford, sister-in-law of the vicar of St Juliot. She encouraged him in his writing, and they were married in 1874. After Emma Hardy died in November 1912 and was buried in

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churchyard, Thomas was stricken with guilt and remorse, but the result was some of his best poetry, expressing his feelings for his wife of 38 years. From ''

Satires of Circumstance ''Satires of Circumstance'' is a collection of poems by English poet Thomas Hardy, and was published in 1914. It includes the 18 poem sequence '' Poems 1912-13'' on the death of Hardy's wife Emma - extended to the now-classic 21 poems in ''Colle ...

'', Thomas Hardy's 1914 book of poems about Emma. :I found her out there :On a slope few see, :That falls westwardly :To the salt-edged air, :Where the ocean breaks :On the purple strand, :And the hurricane shakes :The solid land.

Notable residents

Henry Chidley Reynolds Henry Chidley Reynolds (26 May 1849 – 19 September 1925) was a New Zealand farm manager, butter manufacturer and exporter. He was born at Beeny, St Juliot, Cornwall, England, in 1849. He began manufacturing butter in 1886 and soon adopted "A ...

(1849–1925), a New Zealand farm manager, butter manufacturer and exporter, was born at Beeny.

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