page_title: Sancreed
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Sancreed / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: victoriahistorycorn01page (find matches) Title: The Victoria history of the county of Cornwall Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Page, William, 1861-1934 Subjects: Natural history Publisher: London&#160;: (A. Constable and Company) Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: z ^ Fig. 36. Scale, Jj linear. Fig. 32. Cardinham, No. 2—Fig. 33. Lanhadron—Fig. 34. Lanherne—Fig. 35. Par (from Biscovey)- Fig. 36. Redgate. 421 A HISTORY OF CORNWALL PLATE VI Text Appearing After Image: Scale, 7^ linear. Fig. 37. Sancreed, No. 2.— Fig. 38. Doydon—Fig. 39. Gulval—Fig. 40. Lanteglos by Camelford—Fig. 41. Pendarves- Fig. 42. Trevena—Fig. 43. Waterpit Down. 422 EARLY CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS South Hill.—Rude pillar stone standing in the rectory garden. Discovered by the lateS. J. Wills, of St. Wendron, on 3 September, 1891, in rockery of vicarage garden. Theinscription is in two vertical lines surmounted by the Chi-Rho monogram&#160;: Q^ cvmregniFiLi MAVCI. (Plate III, fig. 25.) Tawna.—See Cardinham (3). TiNTAGEL.—Ornamented cross standing in garden in front of the WharnclifFe ArmsHotel, in Trevena.^ Found in 1875 by J. J. E. Venning&#160;; in use as a gatepost atTrevillet. On the front is the inscription matheus marcvs lvcas ioh, and on the backii:LNAT + FECIT HAC CRvcEM p(ro) a(n)ima su. (Plate VI, fig. 42.) Trevena—See Tintagel. Treveneage.—See St. Hilary (2). Welltown.—See Cardinham (4). CROSSES It will be easily understood that in these pages it is quite impo Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Sancreed is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, approximately three miles west of Penzance.
  Sancreed civil parish encompasses the settlements of Bejouans, Bosvennen, Botreah, Drift, Sancreed Churchtown, Trenuggo, and Tregonnebris. It is bounded by St Just parish to the west, Madron parish to the northeast, and St Buryan and Paul parishes to the south. The parish comprises 4,608 acres of land including Drift Reservoir, which provides drinking water for the area.
context_section_description: At Carn Euny is a noteworthy prehistoric settlement with considerable evidence of both Iron Age and post-Iron Age settlement. Excavations on this site have shown that there was activity at Carn Euny as early as the Neolithic period. There is evidence that shows that the first timber huts were built about 200 BC, but by the 1st century BC, these had been replaced by stone huts. The remains of these stone huts are still visible today as is the fogou, an underground man-made passage of unknown purpose.
  Like many Cornish communities Sancreed can trace its foundation by a legendary saint, in this case St Credan or Sancredus, a follower of St Petroc of Bodmin and Padstow. The church itself is pre-dated by the holy well and baptistry of Sancreed, a few hundred metres west of the church; the site was rediscovered by the vicar of Sancreed in the late 19th century. The wells and baptistry are of a similar age in both respects to those at Madron; as at Madron there is a tradition of hanging cloughties (small strips of cloth) on the trees surrounding the well. The well is also known as St Uny's well. Next to the grade II listed baptistry ruin there is a modern Celtic cross (erected in 1910) which is a copy of a medieval cross in Illogan churchyard.
  At the heart of the village lies the Parish Church itself (Grade II listed), parts of the which date back to the 13th and 14th century following the usual early cruciform plan. It has an unbuttressed west tower of two stages, a north transept, and a 15th-century south aisle of five bays. Within the building is a fine font of the St Ives type which also dates from the 14th century, and the rood screen has curious carvings at the base. Much of the church was restored in the late Victorian period and together with the churchyard and church have within the late 19th and first part of the 20th century held a strong appeal to painters of the Newlyn School, some of whom worshipped regularly at the church and are buried in the churchyard (including  Stanhope Alexander Forbes, Elizabeth Adela Forbes and Thomas Cooper Gotch).
  About 1150 the church was given to Tewkesbury Abbey but in 1242 it was transferred to the Dean and Chapter of Exeter. It was appropriated to the Dean and Chapter in 1300 and the benefice became a vicarage. In 1667 the parishioners took action against the vicar in the episcopal court for making jokes at their expense when preaching.
  As well as the holy well near the church there are remains of "the famous healing springs of St Uny" at Chapel Uny. At Bosence are the remains of a 13th-century chapel.
  Arthur Langdon (1896) recorded the existence of eight stone crosses in the parish, including four in the churchyard. One is at Anjarden; one of the crosses in the churchyard was found at Trannack and another at Sellan. Two more crosses in the churchyard are ornamented; the heads are unusual and the only ones of their type and the shafts are ornamented, in one case on all four sides and in the other on three sides. These two crosses are Hiberno-Saxon and both have the same unusual shape of the heads, with a crucifixus on one side. There is also a cross at Brane which serves as a boundary stone between Brane and Boswarthen. Another cross at Lower Drift was found about 1850 and there is yet another at Trenuggo Hill.
caption: An illustration from The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall (1906); fig. 37 shows one of the ornamented crosses in the churchyard
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