St Wynwallow's Church, Landewednack

St Wynwallow's Church, Landewednack
St Wynwallow's Church
Coordinates: 49°58′14″N 05°11′36″W / 49.97056°N 5.19333°W
OS grid reference	SW 711 127
Denomination	Church of England
Churchmanship	Broad Church
History
Dedication	St Wynwallow
Administration
Parish	Landewednack
Archdeaconry	Cornwall
Diocese	Truro
Province	Canterbury

St Wynwallow's Church, Landewednack, is the parish church of Landewednack parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is the most southerly church in mainland Britain and is situated approximately ten miles (16 km) south of Helston.^[1]

The church is dedicated to St Winwaloe and is Church of England. It was founded about 600 AD and the oldest part of the current building is the twelfth century Norman doorway.^[2] The church was restored in the thirteenth century when the porch was added and in the fifteenth century with a new window in the tower. It is now a Grade I listed building. The last Cornish language sermon was preached here in 1674^[3] though this claim has also been made for the churches of Towednack and Ludgvan.

St Wynwallow's Church is part of a group of parishes comprising:

• St Grada & Holy Cross Church, Grade
• St Wynwallow's Church, Landewednack
• St Rumon's Church, Ruan Minor
• St Mary's Church, Cadgwith

Bells and organ

The bells were cast around 1550. One of these survives and is on display in the church. Another survives in the ring of six in the tower, with four dating from 1937–38.

The pipe organ was installed in a newly constructed organ chamber in 1861 but was replaced in 1993 by an electronic organ.

References

1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End ISBN 978-0-319-23148-7
2. Nikolaus Pevsner (1951) The Buildings of England: Cornwall. Harmondsworth: Penguin
3. "the church in which the last sermon in the Cornish language was preached «not long before the year 1678» (Borlase)." Ward, C. S. & Baddeley, M. J. B. (1908) South Devon ... and South Cornwall ...; 7th ed. London: Nelson; p. 187