St Fimbarrus

Fowey, Cornwall

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St Fimbarrus
Fowey
Cornwall
PL23 1BU

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50.3332577, -4.6399402

A grant recommended by the Cornwall Historic Churches Trust under the County Trust Small Grants Scheme.

  • Church of England

  • Repair Grant, £5,000, 2009

  • Our Repair Grants funded urgent repair work to help keep churches open.

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St Wyllow

Lanteglos by Fowey, Cornwall

The story goes that St Wyllow, a Christian hermit, was living nearby in 596, legend has it that he was killed beheaded but that he brought the head here, thus deciding where the church should be built.

St Sampson

Golant, Cornwall

A hermit’s hut, chapel or church has stood on this site for at least 1500 years, and St Sampson’s lies on the ancient Saints Way along which many of the Celtic Saints came from Padstow to Fowey, thus avoiding a perilous sea route around Land’s End.

St Winnow

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St Winnow, sitting on an ancient riverside Celtic site on the upper reaches of the River Fowey, is renowned as a place of peace, pilgrimage and spiritual refreshment.