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St Austell was a village centred around the parish church, until the arrival of significant tin mining in the 18th century turned it into a town. St Austell is named after the 6th-century Cornish saint, St Austol, a disciple of St Mewan. In a Vatican manuscript there is a 10th-century list of Cornish parish saints.
He is regarded as a saint and is honoured with a Breton feast day on 28 June and a Cornish feast day on the Thursday of Whitsun. According to the "Life" of St Mewan, Austol died within a week after the death of Méen. Before the Reformation, the parishes of St Austell and St Mewan celebrated together because of the friendship between the two ...
Flag of St Piran, used as a flag of Cornwall St Piran portrayed in a stained glass window in Truro Cathedral. This is a list of Cornish saints, including saints more loosely associated with Cornwall: many of them will have links to sites elsewhere in regions with significant ancient British history, such as Wales, Brittany or Devon.
The church was originally dedicated to St Austol, a Breton saint associated with St Meven, but is now dedicated to the Holy Trinity. By 1150 it had been appropriated to the Priory of Tywardreath by the Cardinhams, a situation which continued until 1535. There was originally a Norman church here, of which some remains may be seen.
St Austell Bay (Cornish: Baya Ti war Dreth) [1] is a bay on Cornwall's south coast which is bounded to the east by Gribbin Head and to the west by Black Head. [ 2 ] Since 1 April 2009, it has also been the name of a civil parish , one of four new parishes created on for the St Austell area.
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The interior of the building, in 2016. The first market house in St Austell was an ancient building commissioned by the Mays family in 1638. [2] A second town hall was erected in 1791, [3] [4] [5] but by the early 1840s, it was considered too small.
Mewan (Latin: Mevennus, Breton: Meven, French: Méen) [note 1] (fl. 6th century) [2] was a Celtic saint active in Wales, Cornwall and Brittany. Most documentation of his life can be found in the Breton Vita Meveni , perhaps written in 1084 by Ingamar.