Morval, Cornwall

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Coordinates: 50°23′02″N 4°26′53″W / 50.384°N 4.448°W / 50.384; -4.448

Morval parish church

Morval (Cornish: Morval) is a rural civil parish and hamlet in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The hamlet is approximately two miles (3 km) north of Looe and five miles (8 km) south of Liskeard.[2]

Morval parish is in the Liskeard Registration District and the population in the 2001 census was 616. The meaning of the name Morval is unknown. To the north, the parish is bounded by Dobwalls and Trewidland and Menheniot parishes, to the east by St Germans, to the south by St Martin-by-Looe, and to the west by Duloe.[3]

Parish church

The 13th-century parish church is dedicated to St Wenna and is situated in a secluded location at OS Grid Ref SX260567 in Morval hamlet. The church was probably built in the 13th century with transepts and a north aisle was added in the 15th century. The west tower is built of slate.[3] There is a monument to Walter (William?) Coode (d. 1637) and his family and two early pieces of communion plate (a paten of 1528-29 and a chalice of ca. 1576; the paten which is plain is the only pre-Reformation plate in Cornwall).[4]

Morval House

"Morvall, Cornwall, the seat of John Buller Esq." 1832 Engraving by William Alexander le Petit (fl.1829-1855) from an original painting by Thomas Allom (1804-1872) published in "Cornwall Illustrated" (1832) by Fisher, Son & Co., London
Morval House, St Looe, Cornwall in 1888

A hundred metres south of the church is Morval House (aerial view), a large Tudor residence which was once the home of the Glynn, Buller and Kitson families. The house was altered in the 18th century and according to Nikolaus Pevsner is "one of the best in Cornwall".[5] The descent of Morval was as follows:

Coode

The estate was the property of John Coode whose daughter and sole heiress Anne Coode married John Buller (1632-1716), MP, of Shillingham near Saltash, in Cornwall.

Buller

Arms of Buller: Sable, on a cross argent quarter pierced of the field four eagles displayed of the first[1]

The ancient family of Buller is descended from Ralph Buller of Word in Somerset, sixth in descent from whom was Richard Buller who settled in Cornwall and married the heiress of Tregarrick.[6]

  • John Buller (1632-1716), MP, of Shillingham near Saltash, in Cornwall. His son, who predeceased him, was John Buller (1668-1701), MP for Lostwithiel in 1701.
  • John Francis Buller (1695-1751) (grandson), of Morval, MP for Saltash 1718-1722, himself the father of three Members of Parliament: James Buller (1717-1765), John Buller (1721-1786), Lord of the Admiralty and Francis Buller (1723-1764) and of William Buller (1735-1796), Bishop of Exeter.
  • James Buller (1717-1765) (eldest son), MP for East Looe 1741 - 1747 and for Cornwall 1748 - 1765.[7] His wife Elizabeth Gould was the heiress of the estate of Downes near Crediton in Devon, which became at some time the principal seat of the family.[8]
  • James Buller (1766-1827) (eldest son), MP.

References

  1. ↑ Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937, p.279, Buller of Downes
  2. ↑ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 Plymouth & Launceston ISBN 978-0-319-23146-3
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 GENUKI website; Morval. Retrieved April 2010.
  4. ↑ Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall; 2nd ed. Penguin Books; p. 122
  5. ↑ Pevsner (1970)
  6. ↑ Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937, p.277, Buller of Downes
  7. ↑ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/buller-james-1717-65
  8. ↑ Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937

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