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2 unusual facts about St Martin-by-Looe


Deviock

Deviock civil parish was created as recently as April 1997 from part of the former St Germans Parish; it also includes parts of St Martin-by-Looe and part of Morval.

St Martin-by-Looe

To the north, the parish is bordered by Morval parish, to the east by Deviock parish, to the west by Looe parish and to the south by the sea.


Allerton Castle

Outside is St Martin's Church.

Bertha of Kent

The present St Martin's at Canterbury continues in the same building as the oldest church in the English-speaking world and is part of the Canterbury World Heritage site.

Birmingham Blitz

On 8 October 2005 a memorial sculpture, named 'The Tree of Life' sculpted by Lorenzo Quinn, dedicated to the victims of the Blitz was unveiled adjacent to St Martin’s Church.

Caradon

It contained five towns: Callington, Liskeard, Looe, Saltash and Torpoint, and over 80 villages and hamlets within 41 civil parishes.

Cheriton, Kent

The Seabrook Stream flows through the west of the district, cutting a scenic valley between Dibgate Camp and St Martin's Plain.

The church gives its name to the military training area of St Martin's Plain and now serves Shorncliffe Camp.

Christopher Armstrong

From then until his elevation to the Deanery he was Vicar of St Martin, Scarborough.

Coaching inn

Examples of historic sites of coaching inns in central London include the plaque on the Nomura building close to the Museum of London on London Wall commemorating the "Bull and Mouth" Inn; Golden Cross House, opposite St Martin's in the Fields recalls the Golden Cross, Charing Cross coaching inn.

Cradock, Eastern Cape

Interestingly, the design of the Dutch Reformed Church building is based on that of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London.

Di Xiao

In February 2011 Di Xiao featured on BBC Radio 3's In-Tune programme as a prelude to her St Martin-in-the-Fields debut when, during a 30 minute slot, Di Xiao was interviewed by host Sean Rafferty and played live on air.

E. Clive Rouse

The son of Edward Foxwell Rouse (a furniture-maker in Acton, west London) and his wife Frances Sarah Sams (whose family had been dairymen to Buckingham Palace), Rouse was educated at St. Ronan's School, Worthing, then Gresham's School, Holt, and the St Martin's School of Art.

Fairhaven Singers

The choir performs mainly in Cambridge but has also appeared several times at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Suffolk, including concerts at the Aldeburgh Festival and Britten's War Requiem at the Britten Festival; at major venues in London, including St Martin-in-the-Fields and St John's Smith Square; and at various concert venues in Europe.

Hilton Crowther

In 1927 Crowther married Annie M. J. Vivian, known as Mona Vivian, a popular pantomime artiste, in St Martin-in-the-Fields in London.

History of Colchester

These were St. Mary at the Walls, St. Martin's, St. Runwald's, St. Nicholas, All Saints, Holy Trinity, St. James the Great, and St. Peter's.

Houp La!

The original production of the show was mounted by Charles B. Cochran at London's new St Martin's Theatre, opening on 23 November 1916 and starring Gertie Millar, George Graves, Nat Ayer and Ida Adams.

John Trelawny

Sir John Trelawny, 4th Baronet (1691-1756), MP for East Looe, West Looe and Liskeard

Jonathan Trelawny

Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 2nd Baronet (c. 1623–1681), his grandson, Member of Parliament for East Looe, Cornwall and Liskeard

Liber Scintillarum

It was compiled by Defensor, a monk who in the preface identifies himself as a member of St Martin's Abbey at Ligugé, near Poitiers, and who wrote the work at the behest of his teacher Ursinus, the abbot of St Martin's.

Liskeard and Looe Railway

In 1827 a canal -– the Liskeard and Looe Union Canal—was constructed, between Sandplace on the East Looe River and Moorswater, in the valley west of Liskeard.

Looe

In 1856 the large quay of East Looe was built to handle the demands of the shipping trade, and in 1860, with the canal unable to keep up with demand, a railway was built linking Looe to Moorswater near Liskeard, along the towpath of the canal, which was used less and less until, by 1910, traffic ceased entirely.

Looe Valley Line

With the driver and guard having now swapped ends, the train recommences its southerly journey, now running alongside the old Liskeard and Looe Union Canal and East Looe River.

Louis Goupy

He subscribed in 1711 to the Great Queen Street Academy begun under Sir Godfrey Kneller, but seceded from it in 1720 to the St Martin's Lane Academy begun by Louis Chéron and John Vanderbank.

Lux Park

Trevor Woodman - Former England Rugby Union Player who belonged to the Liskeard Looe Rugby/Football club which is situated in the grounds of Lux Park.

Michael Everitt

From 1998 to 2002 he was Chaplain at St Martin's College, Lancaster then Rector of Standish until his Archdeacon’s appointment.

Miles Jacobson

Born in 1971 and raised in Watford, Jacobson spent more time on music than education when at school, singing or playing at the Royal Opera House, Royal Albert Hall, the Barbican and St Martin-in-the-Fields during this time.

Radio 4 Appeal

Each year since 1927, the BBC has broadcast a special Christmas Appeal in association with St Martin-in-the-Fields church in Trafalgar Square, London.

Reggie Lambe

On 30 August 2008, Lambe scored four goals for his national team, in a 7–0 defeat of St Martin; a Digicel Cup match.

Richard Toy

Toy's best known churches are in Auckland and include the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Parnell, St Martin's at St Chad's in Sandringham and All Saints in Ponsonby.

Sir John Fenwick, 3rd Baronet

By his wife, Mary (d. 1708), daughter of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, he had three sons and one daughter, all of whom died young, and are buried with Fenwick at St Martin-in-the-Fields.

St Martin-In-The-Fields High School for Girls

The school has a long-standing exchange link with Anchovy High School, Anchovy, near Montego Bay, Jamaica.

St Martin, Ludgate

Some legends connect the church with legendary King Cadwallo (now usually referred to as Cadwallon ap Cadfan, father of Cadwaladr.

St Martin's Cathedral, Ypres

After the Concordat of 1801 between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII, Ypres was incorporated into the diocese of Ghent, and Saint Martin's lost its status as a cathedral.

St Martin's Chapel, Chisbury

St Martin's Chapel, Chisbury is a Mediaeval former chapel next to the manor house in the hamlet of Chisbury, Wiltshire.

St Martin's Church, Bladon

So, on 30 January 1965, after his state funeral service at St Paul's Cathedral (the largest ever held in world history up to that point), London, his body was taken by train to nearby Hanborough railway station and thence to Bladon.

St Martin's Church, Bowness-on-Windermere

The benefactors at this time included the local industrialist and politician Henry Schneider.

In the churchyard is a tomb with a headstone dated 1822 inscribed to the memory of a freed slave named Rasselas Belfield, who is described as "A Native of Abyssinia".

St Martin's Church, Brampton

In about 2000 it was being used as a chiropodist's surgery and a probation office.

St Martin's Church, Brighton

It consists of 20 pictures and 69 statues, all of which were carved in the German town of Oberammergau, noted worldwide for its woodcarving tradition.

The base of the pulpit contains olive wood collected from the Mount of Olives; and the font, built of Sussex marble and installed in 1907, contains a variety of other stones and marble from sites such as Cairo and Pompeii, brought back to England by Wagner himself during his lifetime.

St Martin's Church, Canterbury

Queen Bertha was a Christian Frankish princess who arrived in England with her Chaplain, Bishop Liudhard.

St Martin's Church, Ruislip

While Ruislip was under the ownership of the Bec Abbey, the monks bestowed the name St. Martin upon the church, dedicating it to Saint Martin of Tours from Normandy.

St Martin's College

The College is named after St Martin of Tours, a Roman soldier who tore his cloak in two to clothe a naked beggar and later had a vision of Christ wearing the cloak.

St Martin's, Shropshire

In the 19th century a canal was constructed through St Martin's Moor by Thomas Telford linking the industrial areas around Ruabon to the canal network.

Terry Burrows

Best known as a performer under the pseudonym Yukio Yung, Burrows is also a prolific author of books relating to music tuition, technology, business, popular psychology and history - including KISS Guide to Playing Guitar (Dorling Kindersley), Total Guitar Tutor (Barnes & Noble), and Play Electric Guitar (St Martin's Press).

The Marionettes Chorale

The Marionettes have performed at venues including St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, the York Assembly Rooms, and the Hall of the Americas in Washington; and for dignitaries including Lord Browne and Colin Powell, delegates from CARICOM, the Organization of American States and the British Commonwealth.

William Lechmere

Lechmere took advantage of the peace and married Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir John Dashwood-King, at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster on 31 October 1787.

Young Adelaide Voices

The Concert Choir has given recitals in such places as Westminster Abbey, St Martin-in-the-Fields and St Paul's Cathedral, and even Disneyland in America.


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