Rame (Caradon)

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Rame is a hamlet between Rame Head and the village of Cawsand in South East Cornwall. It is situated on the Rame Peninsula. Rame means the high protruding cliff, or possibly, the ram's head.

There is another Rame near Falmouth in west Cornwall. It is believed that the west Cornwall Rame was named after the one on the Rame Peninsula. The Church in the hamlet is dedicated to St. Germanus, the fighting German bishop who is supposed to have landed in the neighbourhood when he came to England to suppress the Pelagian heresy in 400. It is all built of rough slate. the first stone building was consecrated in 1259. The slender, un-buttressed tower with its broached spire (an unusual feature in a Cornish church), the north wall and the chancel are all probably of this date, when the church was cruciform in shape. The church is not supplied by electricity, and is lit by candles. Originally Cawsand was in the parish of Rame, but now has it's own church in the village.

The neighbouring church at Maker is in the same parish as Rame. Together they are called 'Maker-with-Rame' parish.