{"id":565,"date":"2019-12-12T10:07:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T10:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.veryanchurch.org.uk\/?page_id=565"},"modified":"2019-12-27T21:33:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T21:33:07","slug":"the-parish-of-veryan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.veryanchurch.org.uk\/?page_id=565","title":{"rendered":"The Parish of Veryan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Our church<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christianity was brought to Cornwall in the 5th<\/sup> and 6th<\/sup> centuries by missionaries from Wales, Ireland and Brittany. Veryan church has the head of a Celtic cross over the south porch, and part of a cross shaft standing outside the lych gate by the war memorial; it is not known whether they form part of the same cross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The church has since the 13th<\/sup> century been\ndedicated to St Symphorian, a French martyr, probably because in the middle\nages the church belonged to the monastery of Montacute in Somerset, which had\nits origins in Cluny in France. It may have had an earlier dedication to a\nCeltic saint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The building has a few Norman features, 13th<\/sup> century doorway arches and tower windows, 14th<\/sup> century pillars with carved capitals and retains some early carved roof timbers. Part of the 16th century rood screen stands in the north aisle. The church was substantially rebuilt in 1847 and further refurbishment took place in 1897. Many subsequent additions and improvements have been made [see the church guidebook for details].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The churchyard<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are some fine slate headstones, substantial\nvaults to the Trist and Thomas families, and the grave of the crew of the\nGerman barque Hera, <\/em>wrecked on the\nGull Rock in February 1914. It is reputed to be the longest grave in Britain. [see\nthe \u2018Hera\u2019 booklet for the full story]. The grave of Philip Clear is regularly\nvisited by his descendants; he was a local man who fought in all the major\nbattles of the Peninsular Campaign between 1809 and 1815 [see booklet for more\ninformation]\n\n\n\n

Many shrubs are memorials to parishioners and the fine\n\u2018St Ewe\u2019 camellia close to the porch is one of many planted in Cornish\nchurchyards as a memorial to Bishop Joseph Hunkin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Trist family<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three generations of the Trist family served in turn\nas vicars of Veryan. John repaired the church and planted many trees in the\nchurchyard; his son Jeremiah established the parish schools, built five round\ncottages for his tenants, and provided the church clock. His son Samuel was responsible\nfor a major refurbishment of the church in 1847, established the Veryan\nFriendly Society, excavated Carne Beacon and built a new vicarage with a lodge\nand magnificently landscaped gardens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All Saints Church, Portloe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until the 1880s the parish church in Veryan served the whole of the parish. After the closure of the lifeboat station at Portloe occasional services were held in the boathouse, and in 1896 the building was converted into a mission church. By the 1990s the congregations of both church and chapel in the village were declining and the building was refurbished to enable it to be used for Methodist, Anglican and joint services, and as a much-needed community centre. Other Methodist congregations have joined the Portloe community as their places of worship have closed, and the church is one of two Local Ecumenical Projects in the diocese of Truro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Church records<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surviving parish registers date from 1683. Transcripts of headstone memorials have been made; Advice on how to trace your Veryan forebears can be found in our \u2018Family History\u2019 leaflet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our church Christianity was brought to Cornwall in the 5th and 6th centuries by missionaries from Wales, Ireland and Brittany. Veryan church has the head of a Celtic cross over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-565","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veryanchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veryanchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veryanchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.veryanchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.veryanchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.veryanchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/www.veryanchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/565\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veryanchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}