Churches of the British Isles

Lanteglos Highway Wesleyan Methodist Chapel and Sunday school, Lanteglos Highway, is found by heading due west from Trenewan. The chapel is at the northern end of the road which runs through the village, on the eastern side. The chapel was built in 1883-1884. At the Methodist union of 1932 it became Highway Methodist Church with the Sunday school as part of the building. It closed in 1997 and was sold in 2000 to become a holiday home.

Lanteglos Highway Chapel is found by turning back from the Wesleyan chapel (above) and heading a short way south. The former chapel can be seen here on the far right as a cream-coloured private residential building. This chapel is described in available records but today is known as 'Coth Mynster' which means 'Old Chapel'. Old maps do not show a chapel here, but a school is shown on pre-1880 maps, so this may have been the original local Wesleyan Methodist chapel.

The potential site of Mixtow Old Chapel is found by heading west from Lanteglos Highway to access Mixtow Quay (shown here). Heritage Gateway suggests a chapel here. The settlement of Mixtow is first recorded as 'Mighelestow' in 1302. The name is English, meaning 'holy place of St Michael'. The suggestion is that this 'holy place' included a chapel, and Heritage Gateway places it by the quay, presumably to serve the crews of trading vessels. It is not marked on OS maps.

St Cadix's Oratory is also labelled St Syricus (Cyric) & Juliette (Julitta) Priory. St Cadix is immediately south-west of St Veep (below), to the near north of Mixtow. St Carroc (Cadix) established a monastery here which survived for over a thousand years until the Dissolution. It is likely the same place as St Syricus Priory, described as the cell of Black Monks of Montacute. A listed house was later built on the site, possibly containing remains from the Cluniac priory.

The Church of St Vepus, St Veep, is first mentioned in 1236-1237 at the same time as St Cadoc's. It was dedicated to the unique and obscure local saint, St Veep. The first building was cruciform in design, and in 1269 this belonged to Montacute Priory (see above). Nothing remains of that as it was rebuilt in 1336 and rededicated to the Roman saints, St Quiricus & St Julietta. The west tower appears to date from this rebuilding, but the rest is late 1400s or early 1500s.

One photo on this page by Jo Lewis, one kindly contributed by Roy Reed via the 'History Files: Churches of the British Isles' Flickr group, and three copyright © Nigel Smith, Tony Atkin, and Derek Harper via Geograph, reused under a cc licence.