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Tintagell in Cornwall County England History and GeographyTINTAGELL, a parish in the hundred of LESNEWTH, county of CORNWALL, 1 mile (W. by S.) from Bossiney, containing, with the borough of Bossiney, 877 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £8. 11. 3., and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church, dedicated to St. Simphorian, contains a curious Norman font. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A fair for cattle is held at Trevenna on the Monday after October 19th. The parish is bounded by the Bristol channel on the north, where, partly on a stupendous crag, almost surrounded by the sea, and partly on the lofty and precipitous cliff of the main land, are the venerable remains of King Arthur's castle, separated into two divisions by a frightful chasm, three hundred feet deep, across which there was formerly a drawbridge. The keep stood on the peninsula, and, in Leland's time, contained 'a prety chapel with a tumbe on the left syde.' The ruins now existing consist of huge scattered masses, and of walls pierced with small square holes, for the discharge of arrows. This fortress has been occasionally occupied by several of our princes, of whom Richard, Earl of Cornwall, here entertained his nephew, David, Prince of Wales, during the rebellion of the latter against Henry III., in 1245. In subsequent reigns, till within a few years of that of Elizabeth, it had a governor, and was used as a state prison for the duchy of Cornwall. There were formerly two other chapels within the parish, one dedicated to St. Piran, the other to St. Denis. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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