St Columb Minor

St. Columb Minor is a village on the North Coast of Cornwall, England, UK.

"St. Columb" alone by default refers to the nearby St. Columb Major.

At one time St. Columb Minor used to be the main settlement in the area, but it has now been encroached upon by its larger neighbour Newquay.

The Parish Church

The Site is probablyFact|date=June 2008 that of an ancient barrow where pagan rites were celebrated, and was originally circular. The position is in full view of the twin tumuli. It is sheltered from the strong winds of the Atlantic and looks down the Rialton Valley and across at Castle-an-Dinas. Local legend has it that the Celtic missionaries, centuries before the Columba legend arose, drove away the evil spirits and replaced pagan magic by Christian worship, and erected the first wooden sanctuary. The Church-town lay to the West and South while the shelving ground to the North and East prevented building. Hence, as in the case of so many villages, the houses extended more and more from the parish church.

The National School in the Square was built in 1842. It is on the site of the Parsonage and is now used as a Men’s Institute.

Famous people

The novelist William Golding was a native of St Columb Minor.

References

* The St. Columb Minor Parish and Church History and Calendar blotter of 1939-40

ee also

*St. Columb Major
*St. Columb Road
*Newquay

External links

* [http://www.stcolumbminor.co.uk/ St Columb Minor website with details of the Church and Parish ]
* [http://crocat.cornwall.gov.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqSearch=((text)='st%20columb%20minor') Cornwall Record Office Online Catalogue for St Columb Minor]

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