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词条 Crowan
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  1. Notable buildings and antiquities

  2. Mining

  3. References

  4. External links

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| country = England
| static_image_name = The Church at Crowan - geograph.org.uk - 85172.jpg
| static_image_caption =Crowan parish church
| coordinates = {{coord|50.163|-05.294|display=inline,title}}
| official_name = Crowan
| cornish_name = Egloskrewen
| population = 2,581
| population_ref = (2011 census including Carzise )
| civil_parish= Crowan
| unitary_england= Cornwall
| lieutenancy_england = Cornwall
| metropolitan_borough =
| metropolitan_county =
| region = South West England
| constituency_westminster = St Ives
| post_town = CAMBORNE
| postcode_district = TR14
| postcode_area = TR
| dial_code = 01209
| os_grid_reference = SW645345
}}Crowan ({{lang-kw|Egloskrewen}})[1] is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is about three-and-a-half miles (6 km) south of Camborne.[2] The River Hayle rises near Crowan and flows through the village and the railway branch to Helston passed nearby.

Crowan had a population of 2,375 (2001) which had increased to 2,454 in the 2011 census.[3] Crowan Churchtown is not the largest settlement: there are villages at Praze-an-Beeble, Nancegollan, Bolitho and Leedstown and a hamlet at Black Rock (on the B3280 road four miles (6.5 km) south of Camborne and five miles (8 km) north of Helston).[2] The hamlets of Carzise, Clowance Wood, Drym, Fraddam, Gwinear Downs, Horsedowns, Nine Maidens Downs, Noonvares, Paul's Green, Releath, Townshend and Tremayne are also in the parish.[4]

Notable buildings and antiquities

The parish church is dedicated to St Crewenna and is built of granite. St Crewenna was possibly one of the Irish saints accompanying saints Germoe and Breaca.[5] The church is of the 15th century but was substantially restored in 1872. The six church bells were cast in 1729 by Rudhall of Gloucester and restored in 1881. The inscriptions are, 1st bell ″A. R. 1729″; 2nd bell ″Prosperity to this parish″; 3rd bell ″Abr. Rudhall, of Gloster, cast us all, 1729″; 4th bell ″Peace and good neighbourhood″; 5th bell ″Prosperity to the Church of England″; 6th bell ″I to the Church the living call, and to the grave do summon all″. The 5th bell was sent to Messrs Warner and Sons, London to be recast.[6] There are numerous monuments to members of the St Aubyn family. Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, is buried at Crowan; his monument was carved by William Behnes.[7] The three St Aubyn brasses (c. 1420, c. 1490 & c. 1550) are now at Clowance.[8][9]

In some 18th-century documents there is evidence that the parish was called Uni-Crowan and this may be connected to the fact that the parish was in two parts, one in Penwith and one in Kerrier hundred. The Kerrier portion was once a separate chapelry and may have had St Uny as its patron saint.[10] Crowan feast was observed on the nearest Sunday to the eve of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary.[11]

Clowance House was the seat of the St Aubyns (from 1671 they were the St Aubyn Baronets, but the legitimate line ended with Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet in 1839).[13] Three years before his death the wings of the house burnt down on 10 November 1836.[14] The resort of Clowance estate offers swimming, tennis, gym and fitness facilities, a bar and an Italian restaurant.[15]Prehistoric remains: Crowan parish has many remains of prehistoric times including barrows and stone crosses.[16] There are four Cornish crosses in the parish; one cross was found at Praze-an-Beeble and now stands by the parish church; three are at Clowance. The original location of the Praze cross is unknown. Two of the Clowance crosses have a cross on one side and a crude crucifixus figure on the other; one formerly stood at Bold Gate on Clowance Down and the other at Binnerton Cross. The third cross is curiously ornamented on the front and back of the shaft; it formerly stood at the northwest corner of Nine Maidens' Down.[17]Manor Mill is an ancient mill used for grinding corn until 1946. It then became a pottery and later still a weaving mill.[18]

Mining

Crowan was formerly a mining parish with thousands employed. By 1880 they had all shut and Polerebo still had a steam-engine in good condition. Other mines included Binner Downs, Crenver, West Treasury, Wheal Abraham, Wheal Strawberry and Wheal Treasury.[19]

References

1. ^Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515091028/http://www.magakernow.org.uk/default.aspx?page=520 |date=May 15, 2013 }} : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515071635/http://www.magakernow.org.uk/idoc.ashx?docid=79ba408d-7c02-499e-8cd6-b18dd48de58d&version=-1 |date=May 15, 2013 }}. Cornish Language Partnership.
2. ^Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End {{ISBN|978-0-319-23148-7}}
3. ^Office for National Statistics : Census 2011: Parish Headcounts : Cornwall Retrieved 2009-12-23
4. ^Cornwall; Explore Britain
5. ^ Ellis, P. B. (1992) The Cornish Saints. Penryn: Tor Mark Press, p. 9
6. ^{{cite news|title=Crowan|work=The Cornishman|issue=152|date=9 June 1881|page=5}}
7. ^{{cite book|last1=Gunnis|first1=Rupert|title=Dictionary of British Sculptors, 1660-1851|date=196u|publisher=Abbey Library|location=London|isbn=9780685279342|edition=New rev.}}
8. ^Dunkin, E. (1882) Monumental Brasses. London, Spottiswoode
9. ^Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall, 2nd ed., revised by E. Radcliffe. Penguin Books
10. ^Doble, G. H. (1960) The Saints of Cornwall; part 1. Truro: Dean and Chapter; pp. 97-99
11. ^Cornish Church Guide (1925) Truro: Blackford; p. 10
12. ^Langdon, A. G. (1896) Old Cornish Crosses. Truro: Joseph Pollard; pp. 131-33
13. ^W. P. Courtney, ‘St Aubyn, Sir John, fifth baronet (1758–1839)’, rev. Hallie Rubenhold, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 accessed 30 March 2015
14. ^{{cite news|title=Fire at Clowance Park|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wbritonad/cornwall/1836/misc/nov.html|accessdate=3 January 2013|newspaper=West Briton|date=18 November 1836}}
15. ^{{cite web|title=Clowance Estate|url=http://www.clowancelodges.co.uk/|publisher=Clowance Lodges|accessdate=3 January 2013}}
16. ^Ancient Crowan
17. ^Langdon, A. G. (1896) Old Cornish Crosses. Truro: Joseph Pollard; pp. 129-33 & 328-30
18. ^Todd, A. C. & Laws, Peter (1972) The Industrial Archaeology of Cornwall. Newton Abbot: David & Charles; p. 222
19. ^{{cite news|title=Camborne|work=The Cornishman|issue=111|date=26 August 1880|page=4}}

External links

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