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St Mewan

Village in Cornwall, England

St Mewan
Summary

Village in Cornwall, England

FieldValue
countryEngland
map_typeCornwall
coordinates
official_nameSt Mewan
cornish_nameSen Mewan
population
population_ref()
civil_parishSt Mewan
unitary_englandCornwall
lieutenancy_englandCornwall
regionSouth West England
constituency_westminsterSt Austell and Newquay
post_townST. AUSTELL
postcode_districtPL26
postcode_areaPL
dial_code01726
os_grid_referenceSW998517
Converted Methodist chapel at Trelowth

St Mewan () is a civil parish and village in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is approximately 1 mile west of St Austell. It is a small settlement, comprising the parish church, rectory, a school and nearby farms.

St Mewan parish also includes the settlements of Hewas Water, Sticker, Trelowth, Trewoon, and most of Polgooth. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 3,315.

For elections to Cornwall Council, St Mewan is in the St Mewan and Grampound electoral ward. It was in the St Mewan electoral ward (which also included neighbouring villages) from 2005 to 2021.

Parish church

The church is dedicated to Saint Mewan, a sixth-century Celtic saint who was born in Wales, visited Cornwall, and is mostly venerated in Brittany. The current building dates from the 13th century and is mentioned in a bishops' inquisition of 1294 as the 'Ecclesia de St Mewany'. It was, however, substantially rebuilt in 1854 by George Edmund StreetN. Pevsner, Cornwall, 2nd ed. p.191. Penguin Books (1970) and enlarged in 1890. The church tower is of only two stages and is built of granite blocks. Local legend suggests that the original builders were prevented from raising it higher by the devil, who threw down their stones each night.

Education

St Mewan Community Primary School was founded (as St Mewan Board School) in the nineteenth century, the main building being designed by Silvanus Trevail in 1874. The schoolmaster's house had previously been the St Mewan Inn. , the school had around 400 pupils.

St Mewan Beacon

St Mewan Beacon

This natural landmark lies some distance from the village, to the north-west of Trewoon. It is a tor exposure of quartz-topaz-tourmaline rocks that has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for its geological characteristics. St Mewan Beacon was studied by Cornish mining engineer and mineralogist Joseph Henry Collins who published an account of it in 1914.

References

References

  1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 ''Newquay & Bodmin'' {{ISBN. 978-0-319-22938-5
  2. "St Mewan Parish Council St Mewan Cornwall Sticker Cornwall Trewoon Cornwall Polgooth Cornwall Trelowth Cornwall Hewas Water Cornwall Local Council".
  3. "Parish Profiles". Office for National Statistics.
  4. "Parish of St Mewan". Homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com.
  5. [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Mewan.html] {{webarchive. link. (July 16, 2011)
  6. W. Penaluna, ''An Historical survey of the County of Cornwall'' vol.2, p.93 (1838)
  7. "Schools designed by Silvanus Trevail". Luxsoft.demon.co.uk.
  8. [http://www.school-index.co.uk/urn/111896.php] {{dead link. (October 2014)
  9. (1993). "St Mewan Beacon". [[Natural England]].
  10. J. H. Collins & F. Coon, "On the topaz rock of St Mewan Beacon, Cornwall", ''Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall''; Vol. XV, 43-54 (1914)
  11. [http://www.minersoc.org/pages/msinfo/Bristow%20Article%20on%20Collins.pdf] {{webarchive. link. (July 24, 2008)
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