Zennor, Cornwall - The Mermaid, St. Senara Church - postcard

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• Picture / Image:  The Mermaid, Zennor Church [St. Senara]
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Zennor /'z?n??r/is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK. The parish includes the villages of Zennor, Boswednack and Porthmeor and the hamlet of Treen. It is located on the north coast, about 6 miles (10 km) north of Penzance.^[1] It lies along the B3306 road which connects St Ives to the A30 road. Alphabetically, the parish is the last in Britain. Its name comes from the Cornish for the local saint, St Senara.^[2]

Zennor Head is a coastal promontory north of the village. The cliffs rise over 200 feet (60 m) from the sea and the highest point of the headland is 314 feet (96 m) above sea level.^[1] The village itself is at a height of around 360 feet (110 m).

Zennor lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation, with the same status and protection as a National Park.

About a mile east of the village is the Zennor Quoit megalithic site.

St Senara's Church, or The Church of Saint Senara, in Zennor Churchtown, Cornwall, England, UK, is the parish church of the parish of Zennor.^[1] It is in the Deanery of Penwith, Archdeaconry of Cornwall, and Diocese of Truro.^[1] It is dedicated to the local saint, Saint Senara, and is at least 1400 years old, though it was rebuilt in the 12th century. It is a Grade I listed building.

A church dedicated to Saint Senara has stood on the current site overlooking the sea since at least the 6th Century AD, but the current building is partly Norman and partly of the 13th and 15th centuries (the north aisle 15th century). There is a west tower and the octagonal font may be from the 13th century. It was reputedly founded by Saint Senara on her return from Ireland with her son, who was by then a bishop, when they founded the village of Zennor.

One of only two remaining bench-ends in the church portrays the Mermaid of Zennor, depicted admiring herself in a mirror. This is on the so-called ""Mermaid Chair"" which also has carvings of fish on the seat, and which is believed to be at least 600 years old.^[2][3]

On the church's outside wall, next to the west porch, is a memorial to John Davy, 1891, the last person to speak Cornish fluently.^[1] The church is surrounded by a small circular graveyard, the boundaries of which have existed since the Bronze Age and in which parish residents have been buried for centuries.

Both this church and the church of the nearby village of Morvah lay claim to the local legend of a cow eating the bell-rope, at a time when such items were fashioned from straw.^[4]

Saint Senara's is the parish church for Zennor, and mainly serves the village of Zennor, more properly called ""Zennor Churchtown"", after the church, to distinguish it from Zennor parish. The church is still used for baptisms, weddings and funerals, as well as for regular Sunday services.^[1] The current vicar is the Revd. John Holland, of Carbis Bay.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=cornwall/ scilly isles

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

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