Lanlivery Explained

Country:England
Map Type:Cornwall
Coordinates:50.4°N -4.704°W
Static Image:The Crown Inn - geograph.org.uk - 1237703.jpg
Static Image Caption:The Crown Inn, Lanlivery
Official Name:Lanlivery
Cornish Name:Lannlyvri
Population:519
Population Ref:(United Kingdom Census 2011 including Boslymon)
Civil Parish:Lanlivery
Unitary England:Cornwall
Lieutenancy England:Cornwall
Region:South West England
Constituency Westminster:South East Cornwall
Post Town:LOSTWITHIEL[1]
Postcode District:PL22 (parish), PL30 (village)
Postcode Area:PL
Dial Code:01208
Os Grid Reference:SX079591

Lanlivery (Cornish: Lannlyvri)[2] is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is about NaNmiles west of Lostwithiel and five miles (8 km) south of Bodmin.[3] The Saints' Way runs past Lanlivery.[4] Helman Tor, Red Moor and Breney Common nature reserves lie within the parish.

Other settlements

Other settlements in the parish of Lanlivery include Redmoor, Sweetshouse, Milltown and Tangier (now a suburb of Lostwithiel). The manor of Penkneth or Penknight was one of the original 17 Antiqua maneria of the Duchy of Cornwall. (The seal of the borough of Lostwithiel was a shield charged with a castle rising from water between two thistles, in the water two fish, with the legend "Sigillum burgi de Lostwithyel et Penknight in Cornubia".[5]) At Pelyn is a 17th-century house which was formerly the seat of the family of Kendall. It was originally E-shaped but only one side survives and the centre was completely redone in the early Victorian period.[6]

Parish church

The parish church is dedicated to St Brevita or Bryvyth, a saint of whom nothing is known. Evidence for this dedication is found in the will of a vicar of Lanlivery dated 1539.[7] The building was originally cruciform but was enlarged in the 15th century by the addition of a magnificent tower and the south aisle. The churches of Lostwithiel and Luxulyan were originally chapelries dependent on Lanlivery.[8] "One of the great churches of Cornwall" according to John Betjeman.[9]

There is a holy well dedicated to St Bryvyth in woodland just outside the village.[10]

There are four stone crosses in the parish: Trethew Cross consists of a crosshead which was found in 1900 and a separate base; Trevorry or Sandyway Cross was found in 1936; Menawink Cross is a cross with a mutilated head which was found c. 1990 and erected shortly thereafter on the opposite side of the road; Crewel Cross was first reported in 1870 built into a stile (in 1900 the two separate parts were joined together and erected on a base).[11] Two stone crosses from Lanlivery were removed in the 1840s and turned into monuments: one was taken to Boconnoc and one to St Winnow.[12]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Post towns: LOSTWITHIEL (parish), BODMIN (village)
  2. http://www.magakernow.org.uk/default.aspx?page=520 Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF)
  3. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 Newquay & Bodmin
  4. http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Cornwall/Lanlivery/index.html GENUKI website
  5. Book: Pascoe, W. H.. A Cornish Armory. 133. 1979. Lodenek Press. Padstow, Cornwall. 0-902899-76-7.
  6. Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall; 2nd ed., revised by E. Radcliffe. Harmondsworth: Penguin: ; p. 132
  7. The Cornish Church Guide (1925) Truro: Blackford; p. 131
  8. The Cornish Church Guide (1925) Truro: Blackford; p. 131
  9. Betjeman, J. (ed.) (1968) Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches: the South. London: Collins; p. 148
  10. Web site: St Bryvyth's Well Holy Well or Sacred Spring: The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map . Megalithic.co.uk . 2015-12-27.
  11. Langdon, A. G. (2002) Stone Crosses in Mid Cornwall; 2nd ed. Federation of Old Cornwall Societies; pp. 50-52
  12. Langdon, A. G. (2005) Stone Crosses in East Cornwall; 2nd ed. Federation of Old Cornwall Societies; pp. 24 & 71