Phillack

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Phillack is a settlement in Cornwall, UK which since 1935 has fallen within boundaries of the Hayle civil parish. The origins of the name Phillack was traced in the 17th century to the Irish Saint Felicitas, who is said to have founded Phillack church in the 6th Century AD, but a 10th century Vatican codex lmentions a Saint Felec of Cornwall, who may be the dedicant and is believed to have lived about the same time.

Two early stones have been found embedded in the original village church. One bears a 'Constantine' form of a Chi-Rho cross which may date to the 5th Century; it was afterwards rebuilt into the wall directly above the apex of the arch of the doorway of the new church. The second is simple memorial stone bearing the name of 'Clo[tualus] [son of] Mo[bra]ttus', dated between the fifth to eighth centuries, and now stands in the churchyeard.^[1]

The geologist and philanthropist Elizabeth Catherine Thomas Carne was born here.

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^ See the discussion and bibliography in Elisabeth Okasha, Corpus of early Christian inscibed stones of South-west Britain (Leicester: University Press, 1993), pp. 201-207