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View from top of St Eval Church

February 2, 2020by paulmurtphotography Leave a comment

View from the top of the Bell Tower of St Eval church  

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Celtic Crosses & Holy Wells

The holy well of St Columba

April 26, 2019by paulmurtphotography Leave a comment

Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Cornwall. The legend of Saint Columba, the Virgin, is recorded in a manuscript in the University Library of Cambridge, written by Nicholas Roscarrock in […]

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Celtic Crosses & Holy Wells

Lanivet Cross

March 16, 2019by paulmurtphotography Leave a comment

St Ingunger Cross is a wheel headed wayside cross in the Parish of Lanivet in mid Cornwall. This granite wayside cross stands beside a road which was part of an ancient […]

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Saints of Cornwall – St Austell

November 29, 2018by paulmurtphotography Leave a comment

Saint Austell Saint Austol (Welsh: Austel; Latin: Austolus) was a 6th-century Cornish holy man who lived much of his life in Brittany. He was a friend of Saint Méen, who founded […]

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Celtic Crosses & Holy Wells, Historic Cornwall

The Chapel of St Enodoc

May 10, 2018by paulmurtphotography Leave a comment

Then roller into roller curled And thundered down the rocky bay, And we were in a water world Of rain and blizzard, sea and spray, And one against the other […]

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Celtic Crosses & Holy Wells, Historic Cornwall

St Madrons Well

May 3, 2018by paulmurtphotography Leave a comment

Saint Madron was a Pre-Congregational Saint, monk and hermit. He is honoured in Wales and Brittany and in Cornwall at Madron Parish Church in the village of Madron. He also […]

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Is this the holy well of St John

May 3, 2018by paulmurtphotography Leave a comment

Holy Well / Spring in Cornwall – This well is described in Cheryl Straffon’s excellent book “Fentynyow Kernow – in search of Cornwall’s Holy Wells” She describes this one as […]

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Celtic Crosses & Holy Wells, Legends

Lady Vale Bridge

September 28, 2017by paulmurtphotography Leave a comment

Lady Vale Bridge Nr Bodmin, Cornwall is a Clapper bridge over a tributary of the River Fowey in Cardinham Woods. The bridge dates from the 12th century and was named […]

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Eye Well – Bodmin

August 4, 2017by paulmurtphotography Leave a comment

Holy Well and Sacred Spring in Cornwall As it’s name suggests, the Eye Well had a reputation for healing the eyes. A stone above the present structure bears the date 1700 […]

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Holywell Bay – Finding the Druids well

July 14, 2017by paulmurtphotography Leave a comment

  Holywell Bay unsurprisingly gets its name from a Holy Well, but there are 2 rival contenders for this!  The first is in the valley at Trevarrick (near the 18th […]

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