St Tudy
- For the saint, see Tudy of Landevennec
Coordinates: 50°33′18″N 4°43′52″W / 50.555°N 4.731°W
St Tudy (Cornish: Eglostudi) is a civil parish and village in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated in the River Camel valley approximately five miles northeast of Wadebridge.[1]
The village is mentioned as having a cattle fair in Owen's book of fairs 1788.[2]
Notable houses
There was formerly a manor house at Tinten and the chapel may still be recognized. It has been reused as a barn and has a 15th-century window.[3] Other small former manor houses in the parish are Hengar, which was destroyed by a fire in 1904 (in 1906 it was rebuilt in Elizabethan style); Lamellen, Tremeer and Wetherham[4] One of the most well-known of Thomas Rowlandson's paintings is "Hengar House the seat of Matthw Mitchell [sic] Esqr., Cornwall" (1812) which was sold at the Sir Richard Onslow sale, Sotheby's, 15 July 1959.
Parish church
The parish church is dedicated to St Tudius and was restored in 1873. There was a Norman church here but the present structure is of the Perpendicular period. There are two aisles the arcades of which are identical.[5] The tower has three stages, is 64 feet high, and is topped with battlements and pinnacles; there are five bells.[6] It is Grade I listed.[7] Anthony Nicholl (died 1658) is commemorated by a sumptuous memorial erected by his wife.[8] In the churchyard is a pre-Norman coped stone with carving, possibly a rare hogback tomb. [9][10]
Notable people
Notable people from St Tudy include: William Bligh, naval officer; Eddie George, former governor of the Bank of England; Oscar Kempthorne, statistician and geneticist at Iowa State University; Richard Lower, early experimenter in blood transfusion; Humphrey Nicholls, MP for Bodmin; and Vice Admiral Sir Louis Le Bailly who led a campaign for the local pub to be renamed after William Bligh.[11]
References
- ↑ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 Newquay & Bodmin ISBN 978-0-319-22938-5
- ↑ "Owen's New Book of Fairs: Published by the King's Authority. Being a ... : William Owen : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive". archive.org. 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
- ↑ Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall; 2nd ed., revised by Enid radcliffe. Harmondsworth: Penguin; p. 221
- ↑ Beacham, Peter & Pevsner, Nikolaus (2014) Cornwall.(The Buildings of England.) New Haven: Yale University Press; p. 605
- ↑ Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall; 2nd ed. Penguin Books; p. 203
- ↑ "St Tudy". Genuki.org.uk. 2012-03-25. Retrieved 2015-06-26.
- ↑ Historic England. "Details from image database (67804)". Images of England., accessed 28 March 2010
- ↑ Archived September 29, 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "myADS" (PDF). Archaeology Data Service. Retrieved 2015-10-23.
- ↑ Pevsner (1970)
- ↑ "Vice-Admiral Sir Louis Le Bailly - Telegraph". The Daily Telegraph (London: TMG). ISSN 0307-1235. OCLC 49632006. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
External links
Media related to St Tudy at Wikimedia Commons
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