32-690: [REDACTED] Look up st germans in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. St Germans or St German's may refer to: St Germans, Cornwall , England St Germans railway station St German's Priory St Germans River St Germans Rural District , a local government division 1894–1974 St Germans (UK Parliament constituency) 1562–1832 St German's Church , in Cardiff, Wales Bishop of St Germans , an episcopal title in England Earl of St Germans ,
64-473: A mile West of St Germans along the B3249. The sloping land was excavated and tree trunks were laid as a base before being covered with top soil to give a flat playing surfaces thus making it one of the first purpose built cricket grounds in the county. St Germans Cricket Club played on the ground until folding in the early 1970s. From 1975 the ground has been the home ground of Tideford Cricket Club who re-located from
96-455: A native of St Germans. Sir William Moyle's Almshouses , also known as the Galleries , date from 1583. They are unusual in that they consisted of six one-room apartments on the ground floor and a further six on the first floor. The upper rooms open onto a gallery along the front of the range, which is reached by stairs at either end. The almshouses were converted into four separate dwellings in
128-594: A site they had been using near Trerulefoot. The views from the ground stretch out to the East as far as Maker Church (7 miles away) and several miles to the South across the valley to the Plymouth – Penzance railway line. To the North the ground is bordered by woods. Whilst the ground is very picturesque the facilities are basic with no mains electricity available (quoted £15K for installation in
160-641: A title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with St Germans All pages with titles containing St Germans All pages with titles beginning with St German's Saint-Germain (disambiguation) Peel Cathedral , the Cathedral Church of Saint German, Isle of Man Wiggenhall St Germans , in Norfolk, England Topics referred to by
192-529: Is built of slatestone rubble with limestone dressings. Fisher was also responsible for the construction of the mission chapel in Downderry , now St Nicolas's Church. The church is Grade II listed . The parish was merged back in with that of St Germans in 1984. All of the stained glass is the work of the renowned glassmakers Clayton and Bell . The east window depicts Christ in Majesty over St Michael , and
224-603: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages St Germans, Cornwall St Germans ( Cornish : Lannaled ) is a village and civil parish in east Cornwall , England, United Kingdom. It stands on the River Tiddy , just upstream of where that river joins the River Lynher ; the water way from St Germans to the Hamoaze is also known as St Germans River. It takes its name from
256-575: Is included in the Catholic Church 's list of titular sees . The adjectival form of the name of the see is Cornubiensis , meaning "Cornish" or "of Cornwall". John of Cornwall , in Latin Johannes Cornubiensis or Johannes de Sancto Germano , was a Christian scholar and teacher, who was living in Paris about 1176. Little is known of his life. From his names, it is surmised that he was
288-534: Is symbolic of a walnut nut tree that once stood on the green at the top of present-day Old Quay lane. It was felled between 1865 and 1870, and it was rumoured the wood was used to build cabinets in Port Eliot. Recently a small walnut wood cabinet was re-discovered in church storage and shown to the community during the 2018 May Tree Fair. In the late 19th Century the Earl of St Germans had a cricket ground purposely built about
320-680: The Ascension above a roundel of St John the Baptist. It is dedicated to the memory of Mrs Frances Abraham, Fisher's mother-in-law. The two west aisle windows are both dedicated to the memory of the Revd John Turner Fisher: that on the south depicts Solomon and the building of the Temple and that on the north depicts the Good Samaritan . The pulpit is made of Caen stone and alabaster , and
352-582: The Quay Sailing Club (QSC). The sailing club is now well established and plays a part in the life of the village. St Germans railway station was opened on 4 May 1859 at the west end of St Germans viaduct , 106 feet above the quay. It is notable for having the best-preserved Cornwall Railway station buildings. There are references in St Germans to a fair in 1284, as well as a second fair on Lammas Day . A rental of Landrake Manor made in 1652 says 'there
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#1732851998614384-577: The Reform Act 1832 . As in many of the Cornish rotten boroughs, the franchise in St Germans was restricted to a tiny number of "freemen", rather than to all residents, but even they were not numerous—by the time of the Reform Bill, the male population of the borough was only 247. However, the previous census had shown that the whole parish (of which the borough made up only a fraction) had a population of 2,404, and
416-621: The St. German's Priory , generally associated with St Germanus , although the church may have been associated initially with a local saint, who was gradually replaced by the 14th century. This Norman church is adjacent to the Port Eliot estate of the present Earl of St Germans . The other villages in the historic parish were Tideford , Hessenford , Narkurs, Polbathic , and Bethany, but new ecclesiastical parishes were established in 1834 ( St Anne's Church, Hessenford ) and 1852 ( Tideford ). In 1997 part of
448-473: The dissolution , it was sold for eight shillings sixpence. This was a chapel, dedicated to St Anne , of St German's Priory , and probably built in the 15th century. As late as 1914 it was recorded that remains of the 'ancient chapel' were still visible in Hessenford Wood. The church was built as a chapel-of-ease to St Germans parish church in 1832 to support the growing population of Hessenford. It
480-468: The 1990s). Tideford Cricket Club runs 2 adult teams (Cornwall Cricket League) and several junior age group teams (West Devon Youth League). Cornish wrestling tournaments, for prizes, have been held in St Germans. St Germans is twinned with Plouguerneau ( Plougerne ) in Brittany , France. St Anne%27s Church, Hessenford St Anne's Church is a former Church of England parish church in
512-421: The 20th century; it is a Grade II* listed building . It was originally a busy fishing village in the 19th century. The St Germans Quay was busy in the last century with cargoes of timber, coal and limestone and materials for the building of the railway that was to bring about the demise of river trade . Until the last war the trade in roadstone continued. Now St Germans Quay is home to the village sailing club:
544-645: The Archangels Gabriel and Raphael . It was given in memory of the Revd Edward Golding in 1891. The remaining stained glass in the chancel was installed in 1901 in memory of Sir Charles Watson-Copley Bt and depicts Anna the Prophetess the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Elizabeth , the mother of St John the Baptist . There are three windows in the south aisle. Installed in 1894 and dedicated to
576-447: The Roman soldiers guarding the tomb. The organ was obtained by public subscription in 1901. Originally blown by hand, in 1939 it was converted to an electric blower. The National Pipe Organ Register describes it as an undated Casson, although given the date of its installation (1901) it is likely to be the work of Casson's Positive Organ Company . It is located in the north aisle, and
608-409: The St Germans parish was made into Deviock parish. The area of the civil parish is 10,151 acres (4,108 ha), and it has a population of 1,427, increasing to 1,453 at the 2011 census. An electoral ward with the name St Germans also exists. The population at the 2011 census was 4,301. The village was one of the rotten boroughs , electing two members to the unreformed House of Commons until
640-523: The decision as politically motivated (St Germans was a Tory borough), and the vote in the Commons was one of the narrowest in the entire Reform Bill debates. The seal of the borough of St Germans was St German seated on a throne, with the legend "S. Prepositure Sci Germani in laya". There is a stone cross at Carracawn dedicated to the members of the parish who died in the First and Second World Wars . St Germans
672-410: The fair ale', was pulled around on a cart to claim his pretend jurisdiction. On this day, anyone entering the village without the leaf or branch of an oak leaf in his hat was thrown in the trough of water fed by a stream on Nut Tree Hill. On 27 May 2012, the fair was revived. A new "mock mayor" was elected, and a symbolic May tree was paraded through the village. This is a wooden, decorated garland that
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#1732851998614704-533: The first Vicar. The chancel was the first extension, in 1855, by the Countess of St Germans (erroneously referred to in the parish history and in Kelly's Directory as Lady Cornwallis, her name at birth having been Lady Jemima Cornwallis), in an Early English style . The chancel includes a double sedilia . In 1871 Fisher had the rest of the church rebuilt, also in an Early English style, by J P St Aubyn . The church
736-543: The initial proposal was that St Germans should lose only one of its two MPs; but the Whig government subsequently decided that the availability of sufficient population in a surrounding parish should not save a borough from disfranchisement unless a substantial part of that population was already within the borough boundaries, amending the bill's schedules so as to extinguish both of the St Germans MPs. The Tory opposition attacked
768-552: The late 1950s, with the date of the fair held on the nearest possible day to 28 May. Robert Hunt in Popular Romances of the West of England describes a two-day festival, that took place on the 28th and 29 May. On 28 May, a 'mock mayor' was chosen 'with many formalities, remarkable only for their rude and rough nature', and cattle were brought into the village for the fair. On the 29th the mock mayor, who had been 'supping too freely of
800-664: The memory of Sir Charles and Lady (Georgina) Watson-Copley, they depict Abraham ( Faith ): the Centurion , David ( Hope ): St Paul and St Joseph ( Charity ): St John the Evangelist . The west window was the first to be installed, in 1880, during Fisher's incumbency. It depicts the Resurrection above a roundel of the prophet Isiah , the Crucifixion above the Last Supper , and
832-422: The north vestry is used as the organ chamber. The lectern is of carved oak and depicts St Joseph. It was the work of Jack Sandy, a local craftsman. The aumbry on the north wall of the chancel was a later installation, in 1966, although is no longer in use, the key having been lost. There is a lych gate , which was installed in 1905. There is an adjacent churchyard, which contains two war graves from
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896-623: The village of Hessenford in Cornwall . It is dedicated to St Anne , the mother of the Virgin Mary . The church is in the Archdeaconry of Bodmin, in the Diocese of Truro . The church is largely the work of J P St Aubyn , and is Grade II listed . Although there has been a village at Hessenford since at least 1286 (when a mill is recorded), the earliest reference to a church is from 1539 when, following
928-623: Was a Fayre keept yeerely within the Towne of St Germans upon the Last Tursday in Maye' but notes that the fair has decayed and ended under Cromwell 's government. However the fair was revived shortly after the Restoration , possibly due to the similarly timed Oak Apple Day to celebrate the Restoration, and there are multiple references to it from then on. Indeed, it is listed annually in local newspapers until
960-470: Was consecrated the following year. Although there is a small tower and spire, there has never been a bell, and the church became renowned for its shotgun weddings as a volley was fired in place of a peal. A newspaper report in 1930 pictured local farmers firing a salute of one hundred rounds in celebration of a wedding. The church became a separate parish in 1851, with the Rev John Turner Fisher as
992-449: Was originally the seat of the Bishop of Cornwall before the see was combined with that of Crediton in 1042. Today the Bishop of Truro 's assistant ( suffragan ) bishop is known as the Bishop of St Germans in acknowledgement of this, although he has no specific links with the village. The first of these bishops was appointed in 1905. Under its Latin name of Sanctus Germanus , the see
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1024-737: Was the work of the Exeter sculptor Harry Hems . It was erected to the memory of the Revd H N Wheeler (Vicar, 1886–1902) in 1904. The reredos is also the work of Hems: it depicts, in the central panel, the Crucifixion with the Blessed Virgin, St John and St Mary Magdalene at the foot of the Cross. The northern panel depicts Christ carrying the Cross and the southern panel depicts the Resurrection being witnessed by
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