St Michaels

Church of England chapel of the Parish of St Minver. Overlooking Porthilly Beach at Rock, Cornwall.

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There is reason to suppose that St. Michael’s began as an oratory for a monastic order, housed in the neighbouring farm where traces of ecclesiastical architecture are still visible. The parish of St. Minver was from 1255 in the gift of the Prior of Bodmin, and it is said that the two farmhouses at the gate were the House of Labour and the House of Rest of Bodmin Priory. By 1284 these two farms, Porthilly Eglos and Porthilly Grey, had already been for some time in lay hands, as they still are. St. Michael’s was originally built by the Normans and we can still see much of the 12th century building.

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