St Mellion ( kw, Sen Melyan) is a village and rural

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in east

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, England, United Kingdom. The parish is about south of

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and is in the St Germans Registration District. To the north, the parish is bordered by Callington and St Dominick parishes, to the east and south by

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parish, and to the west by St Ive parish. The population in the 2001 Census was 377. The 2011 Census recorded that this had increased to 383. The parish name is taken from St Melaine, a 6th-century bishop of

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Parish church

The

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of St Melanus is in the village of St Mellion (the largest settlement in the parish) at . The older part of the church is the south side which was built in the 14th century whereas the north side is of the late 15th century and was built of granite. There is a series of monuments to the Corytons: these include a brass to Peter Coryton and his wife and 24 children, 1552, and two elaborate sculptural compositions to

William Coryton William Coryton (1580–1651) of West Newton Ferrers, St Mellion, Cornwall, was a Cornish gentleman who served as MP for Cornwall in 1624, 1626 and 1628, for Liskeard in 1625, for Grampound in 1640 and for Launceston 1640–41. He was expelled ...

, 1651, and Sir William, 1711, both in a style characteristic of the early 17th century.

Notable sites

St Mellion is also the location of Pentillie, a 17th-century castle and estate which has been the seat of the Coryton family since 1698. They had previously had an estate at West Newton Ferrers, also in St Mellion. The manor of Newton Ferrers (''Niuuetona, Niweton, Niwetone'') is recorded in the

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of 1086. Part of the manor was held by Reginald 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 Hast ...

. There was half a hide of land and land for six ploughs. There were two ploughs, three serfs, three villeins, 12 smallholders, 12 acres of pasture, five cattle, 40 sheep and 10 goats. The value of this part was £1 though it had formerly been worth £1 10s. The other part of the manor was also held by Reginald from Robert, Count of Mortain. There was one hide of land and land for eight ploughs. There were 10 villeins and 20 smallholders with one plough, three serfs, half a league of pasture, woodland two leagues long and one furlong wide. The value of this part was £1 10s. though it had formerly been worth £2. The present house was built about 1686–95 (these dates being on the gatepiers) for Sir William Coryton. It is a plain granite mansion of two storeys: the centre is of seven bays and there are two projecting wings of two bays each. It is the earliest Cornish mansion in the classical style (i.e. with no Tudor survivals). Two thirds of the house were gutted by fire in 1940; of this some has been rebuilt while the rest remains as a ruin. The St Mellion golf course is also in the parish. Crocadon Quarry, 200 metres east of St Mellion village, is a

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for its

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References

Coryton Arms, St Mellion, Cornwall - geograph

Sources

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External links

St Mellion Parish Council
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