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St Wenn ((コーンウォール語:Sen Gwenna)) is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated six miles (10 km) west of Bodmin and nine miles (14.5 km) east of Newquay.〔Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 ''Newquay & Bodmin'' ISBN 978-0-319-22938-5〕 The parish population at the 2011 census was 299. Other settlements in the parish include Rosenannon, Tregonetha ((コーンウォール語:Tregenhetho)), and Tregurtha Barton, once the home of Michael Tregury, Archbishop of Dublin (Roman Catholic) who died in 1471. The last heir-male of the elder branch of this family died in the reign of Henry V. The Borlase family, ancestors of William Borlase, were residents of this parish. Later William Hals, who wrote the ''Parochial History of Cornwall'', resided here in the latter part of his life:〔(British History Online account of the parish )〕 Hals, who owned the rectorial tithes of St Wenn, died here. ==Churches and schools== The parish church is dedicated to Saint Wenna. The church was in the 12th century in the possession of the Earl of Gloucester who gave it to Tewkesbury Abbey ca. 1150. It was appropriated to the abbey in 1242 when the first vicar was instituted.〔''Cornish Church Guide'' (1925) Truro: Blackford; p. 218〕 The tower originally had three stages but now has only two as the top section was destroyed by lightning in 1663.〔 There is a nave and two aisles of three bays. The font is 15th century work in the Norman style.〔 and very similar to those of St Columb Minor and Mawgan-in-Pydar.〔Pevsner, N. (1970) ''Cornwall''; 2nd ed. Penguin; p. 204〕 On the North Downs, called Carenza Wortha, (now called Rosenannon Downs) there was formerly a chapel dedicated to St Mary Magdalen: it was destroyed in the English Civil War during the time of Charles I.〔Peters, Thurstan ''History of Cornwall''; p. 387〕 There is a Methodist Chapel at Rosenannon and there formerly were others. St Wenn School is a primary school in St Wenn village. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St Wenn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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