{"id":4098,"date":"2016-10-19T15:41:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T14:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/?page_id=4098"},"modified":"2021-03-13T13:38:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T13:38:19","slug":"south-petherwin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/the-parishes\/south-petherwin\/","title":{"rendered":"South Petherwin."},"content":{"rendered":"

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St. Paternus Church, South Petherwin c.1910.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Saint, Patern (or Padern<\/em>) has had several candidates, which has become mixed and confused over the ages. It is believed that the actual St. Patern to which the Parish’s of North and South Petherwin are dedicated to, was actually the father of St. Constantine, a Cornish King who gave up his throne to become a monk. St. Patern and St. Constantine have thus always been indelibly linked, with dedications always being near one another (a Celtic practice when Saints are related or work together<\/em>). St. Constantine Church at Milton Abbot<\/a> being the case in point for South Petherwin. With the assumption that that Dunheved (Now known as Launceston<\/em>) was the seat of the Celtic Kings of the area and that when Constantine became a monk he gave his territory to the Celtic Church, the Parish, along with North Petherwin<\/a> and Lawhitton<\/a> (Landwithan<\/em>), would have been administered by the Celtic Bishop of St. Germans Monastery.
\nWith the Saxon invasion, the new Saxon King created a new diocese in the South West based at Sherbourne. The lands which were controlled by the Celtic Bishop, were conceded to the new Bishop’s control, to finance his work in Cornwall. It is with the Saxons that both Petherwin’s began to dominate the region, with the river Kensey<\/a> being the natural divide. North Petherwin in the North with the new monastery of St. Stephens (a Saxon minister being appointed to quell the Celts<\/em>), and South Petherwin to the south of the Kensey. The Saxons allowed the decline of Dunheved as a means to crush the Celtic will. The Diocese moved first to Crediton from Sherbourne, then on to Exeter.
\nThe next radical change came with the Normans who saught to suppress the Saxon’s control. First St. Stephen’s<\/a> was reduced as a minister with the priory being moved across the Kensey to Newport. Then the ruined ancient fort of Dunheved was rebuilt as a Castle and walled town.
\nSouth Petherwin then became the mother Church for Launceston, and it is for the Church’s importance in providing a valuable source of income to the church as a whole, that accounts for the size of the Church when it was rebuilt in the fifteenth century. Its significance is also shown by the existence of five roads which all congregate at the Church. (Three still exist as normal tarmac roads; one is a footpath leading across fields from Tregadillet, with a fifth road from Trecrogo, which is now sadly blocked off.) The estate was much larger than the present Parish and also included Trewen<\/a>, hence the Medieval association between St. Michaels Church, Trewen and St. Paternus Church, South Petherwin (A link now ended with the consolidation of Parochial charges<\/em>).<\/p>\n

As well as the Churchtown, there lies within the parish the hamlets of Daws House, Trebursye<\/a>, Tregaller, Trecrogo, Kennards House (Kenners House, Trekenners House<\/em>) , part of Hicks Mill and Part of Compass (modern day known as Tregadillett<\/em>). At the beginning of the 19th century, at West Petherwin farm,\u00a0 limestone was quarried and burnt, and along with quarries in St. Stephens and Trewen was the only places in Cornwall where Limestone was raised, burnt and sold on the premises.<\/p>\n

Botathon (Botaden, or Botathen<\/em>) was long a seat of a branch of the Bligh family, which became extinct in the male line in 1740, and passed through an heiress in marriage to the Rev. Mr. Bawden of South Molton. He then sold it to a Mr. Essery. Today it is owned by the Jasper family who also run a abattoir from the farm.<\/p>\n

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1789 Plan of Tenements in South Petherwin<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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South Petherwin Map c.1890<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The parish was home to many non-conformist chapels, with the village having a Methodist and Baptist chapel<\/a>, and there also being a chapel at Trecrogo and Trecrogo Lane End, plus one at Kennards House<\/a>.<\/p>\n

South Petherwin Gallery.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n