St Ervan is a rural
civil parish
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and hamlet in
Cornwall
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, England, United Kingdom. The hamlet is situated three miles (5 km) southwest of
Padstow
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. St Ervan is named after St
Erbyn, the original patron of the church, who is said to have been the father of St
Selevan. Notable features in St Ervan are the Anglican church, the village hall and the
Nonconformist cemetery. The parish population at the 2011 census was 521. In addition to the hamlet of St Ervan, also called Churchtown, the parish incorporates the hamlets of Penrose and
Rumford.
Church
The parish church is dedicated to St
Hermes
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and has a very unusual tower which was originally high and was built in the 14th/15th centuries. The upper part was brought down by explosives in the 1880s, but it was not properly capped until 1956 and now stands high. The church is in the Lann Pydar joint benefice with:
St Eval Church,
St Mawgan
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Church and
St Columba's Church, St Columb Major. The church was supported by the
Arundell family
The Arundell family of Cornwall are a Cornish family of Normans, Norman origin.
Lanherne
The Arundells of Lanherne — "the Great Arundells" as they were styled — appear to have settled in Cornwall, about the middle of the thirteenth century, ...
who lived at the manor of Trembleath as early as 1240.
The English poet, Sir
John Betjeman
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mentioned the church in his poem "
Summoned by Bells" (1960), chapter VIII.
Monuments
There are several notable slate, wall monuments within the church
* Richard Harvey, d. 1666 and Richard Russell, died 1654.
[Beacham, Peter; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2014). ''The Buildings of England. Cornwall''. Yale University Press. ; p. 539]
* William Pomeroye, d. 1622 with figure carved in central panel in contemporary dress.
* Humphrey Arthur, died 1676 with floral decoration around a central inscription panel and another slate to his wife Elizabeth.
* Nicholas and Jane Brewer, d. 1642,
* Richard Hare d. 1610, Richard Louis d. 1688, John Tom d. 1647. In the nave
* Two daughters of Walter Piper, d. 1723 and fragment of slate with carved kneeling figures.
* Richard and Eleanora Vivian who d. in 1708 and 1707.
There are also two late 17th-century monuments with columns and
entablature
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s, one in the south transept to Ralph Keate who died in 1672.
Cemetery
St Ervan Nonconformist Cemetery is located on the outskirts of the village on the road toward Penrose. It was opened in 1919 and is used to serve three Nonconformist chapels in the Parish.
Monuments
St Ervan Parish War Memorial, found at the centre of the cemetery, is a wheel cross set on a tapering shaft with a tapering plinth. Black lettering is used to commemorate the Great War 1914-1919
See also
*
Penrose Methodist Chapel
References
External links
*
GENUKI website; St ErvanCornwall Record Office Online Catalogue for St Ervan
The Cornwall Historic Churches Trust -St Ervan
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Civil parishes in Cornwall
Hamlets in Cornwall