Tintagel Truro
01840 250359

Welcome to the parish church of Tintagel: St Materiana in the Anglican Diocese of Truro and county of Cornwall England. The Church was built between 1080 and 1150 and stands on Glebe Cliff overlooking the sea. St Materiana has been identified with St Madryn, a princess of Gwent, who, according to tradition, evamngelised this area in about 500 AD. It is likely that the Church was built on the site of an oratory served in celtic days by the monks of Minster and later replaced by a Saxon style building. It appears to have been built on the site of intensive early Christian burial during the 5th to 7th centuries.

The font is Norman and is believed to have been brought here from St Julietta's chapel in Tintagel Castle. The rood screen is largely intact and dates from about 1500. The Bishop's Chair is late Tudor. The stone bench along gthe west and south walls is medieval and predates the introduction of pwes in the 15th century.

The Blessed Sacrament Chapel within the Church is specially set apart for quiet prayer. It contains a pre-Reformation altar in situ.

The south transept contains a Roman stone bearing the name of the Roman emperor Caius Flavius Valerius Licinianus Licinius a rival who was put to death by Constantine in 324AD. There is another Roman stone near St Pirans, Trethevy about 2 miles away: these are two of only five such stones in Cornwall.

The Iota lifebelt commemorates the death of a cabin boy in 1893 in a shipwreck in nearby Bossiney Cove, the rest of the crew being saved by local men. 

There is a bronze age granite monolith about 20m from the SW corner of the Church tower.

There are regular services at 10.00 am each Sunday.

Ensuring that children and young people as well as adults are kept safe whilst in our care is an integral part of our church life. If you have any concerns about safeguarding please contact:

In the Parish: Carol Williams, Cluster Safeguarding Co-ordinator - 01840 211094

In the Diocese: Sarah Acraman Diocesan Safeguarding Adviser - 01872 274351

Out of Hours - after 5pm and weekends: - 01208 251300

In an emergency:

Local Authority Children's Social Care: - 0300 123 1116

Local Authority Adult's Social Care: - 0300 1234131

 

 

Trevethy Tintagel Truro
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Welcome to the parish Mission church of Trethevy: St Piran in the Anglican Diocese of Truro and county of Cornwall England. The first known mention of this tiny, ancient and very spiritual place is in 1457 when the Bishop licensed Parson Gregory to celebrate Mass both here and in the chapel in Tintagel Castle.

St Piran is usually connected with south Cornwall but Domesday Book records that the monks of St Piran owned land in this area and the nearby private house known as St Pirans, parts of which date back to c1300, was once a monastery. 

The Church fell into disuse, probably at the Reformation, and was for centuries used as a farm building. The field immediately above the Church  bears the Tithe map name "Chapel Meadow". The chapel was restored to the Church in 1941. The donor, Mr Sidney Harris, recalled a large altar slab of greenstone when he was a boy but this, together with the original stone pews, can no longer be seen. The slate slabs of the pews were apparently used in the drainage system at the entrance of Genver Lane.

Remaining ancient features incklude a small lancet window with a trefoil head in the east wall and a stone piscina on the south side.

The Church underwent sympathetic restoration in 2015 but retains its original character and charm.

Close by is the Holy well of St Piran bearing a cross of unknown date. A short  walk along the private lane by the Church (no vehicles allowed) leads past St Pirans House to the spectacular waterfall at St Nectan's Glen. The waterfall is in private ownership and there is a charge to enter. En route and just a few yards from the Church, there is a rare 3rd century Roman "milestone" in the curtilage of but outside the walls of St Pirans House and by the side of the lane. One of only twenty listed Roman stones in England, there is another in the church of St Materiana, Tintagel in the same parish. 

Primary services throughout the year are held at St Materiana at 10.00am on Sundays but there are additional services here at St Piran's Church at 10.00am on Wednesdays in the summer months between Easter and Remembrance Sunday. These are short communion services lasting about half an hour. During the winter months these take place in the Old School in Tintagel (which has heating !)

Ensuring that children and young people as well as adults are kept safe whilst in our care is an integral part of our church life. If you have any concerns about safeguarding please contact:

In the Parish: Carol Williams, Cluster Safeguarding Co-ordinator - 01840 211094

In the Diocese: Sarah Acraman Diocesan Safeguarding Adviser - 01872 274351

Out of Hours - after 5pm and weekends: - 01208 251300

In an emergency:

Local Authority Children's Social Care: - 0300 123 1116

Local Authority Adult's Social Care: - 0300 1234131

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