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Walking with Thomas Hardy

Lanteglos by Camelford Church

 

 

 

Early History

The name "Lanteglos" derives from the Cornish "Nant Eglos" meaning "Church in the valley". The church is surrounded by what used to be 130 acres of glebe land belonging to the church which includes a river valley and a rushing stream. The church font is early Saxon and there is an early Saxon pillar close to the door to the church. A nearby holy well and two Iron Age settlements suggest a very early Christian site for a monastery or oratory.

  

 

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The ancient symbol called a gammadion is on the side of the font and
is repeated in the tracery of the east window and in the reredos behind the altar.

St James the Great, St Andrew & St Peter

 

  The south side aisle was added in the 15th century and the windows contain small remnants of the original glass set in the upper tracery. Each one represents a biblical figure and is thought to be by the same glazier who made some of the early glass in Exeter Cathedral and St. Winnow.  

 

St Jude

King Solomon & Mary Salome; Joachim & Joanna

 

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St Julitta's Well
(Courtesy of www.megalithic.co.uk)