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{{Short description|Civil parish in Cornwall, England}}
{{For|the Breton bishop|Alain of Quimper}}
{{distinguish|Allen Street{{!}}Allen St}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place 
|country = England
|static_image             = St Allen Church, Cornwall - geograph.org.uk - 85585.jpg
|static_image_caption= St Allen Church
|coordinates = {{coord|50.314|-5.061|display=inline,title}}
|official_name      =St Allen
|cornish_name = Eglosalan
|population = 456
|population_ref = (2011)
|unitary_england=           [[Cornwall Council|Cornwall]]
|lieutenancy_england =    [[Cornwall]]
|region= South West England
|constituency_westminster= 
|post_town= TRURO
|postcode_district = TR4
|postcode_area=TR
|dial_code=
|os_grid_reference=  SW831482
}}

'''St Allen''' ({{langx|kw|Eglosalan (hamlet), Pluw Alan (parish)}}) is a [[civil parishes in England|civil parish]] in [[Cornwall]], England, United Kingdom. The [[Churchtown, Cornwall|church town]] of St Allen is an isolated hamlet and the main settlement in the parish is [[Zelah, Cornwall|Zelah]] which is situated on the [[A30 road|A30]] trunk road four miles (6.5&nbsp;km) north of [[Truro]].<ref>Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 204 ''Truro & Falmouth'' {{ISBN|978-0-319-23149-4}}</ref> 

The population in the 2001 census was 435 people and the parish occupies {{convert|3506|acre|km2}} of land. The population had increased to 495 at the 2011 census.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Cornwall/StAllen/index.html#Population|title=Parish population 2011|accessdate= 19 April 2019}}</ref>

==History==
The manor of Cargoll included St Allen and it was in the possession of the [[Diocese of Exeter|bishops of Exeter]] from 1269 (the manor house was at Lanner). From 1287 the patrons of the living were the canons of [[Glasney College]]).<ref>''Cornish Church Guide'' (1925) Truro: Blackford; p. 54</ref>

St Allen parish church was built in the Norman period but enlarged by the addition of the south aisle in the 15th century (the dedication is to St Alunus).<ref>''Cornish Church Guide'' (1925) Truro: Blackford</ref> Little is known of this saint but he has been identified with the Breton bishop [[Alan of Quimper]] who came from Wales.

The 1881 English Census indicates that John Noon Munford was the Rector and living in the Rectory with his wife and two children and two servants.

==Antiquities==
[[File:Celtic Cross in St Allen Churchyard - geograph.org.uk - 231708.jpg|thumb|A cross in the churchyard]]
Arthur Langdon (1896) recorded four Cornish crosses in the parish: one at the farm of Lower Town is buried upside down in the ground; the others are defaced crosses at Tolcarn, Trefronick and Trevalsa.<ref>Langdon, A. G. (1896) ''Old Cornish Crosses''. Truro: Joseph Pollard; pp. 222–23 & 217–18</ref> Andrew Langdon (1994) also recorded four crosses as well as a font adapted from a Gothic cross base. Three of these crosses are in the churchyard, of which one was removed from Trefronick Farm in 1911. Andrew Langdon (citing a 1913 paper by William J. Stephens in the ''Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall'') notes that Arthur Langdon had described the same cross twice, as Trevalsa cross and Lower Town cross are the same.<ref>Langdon, A. G. (2002) ''Stone Crosses in Mid Cornwall''; 2nd ed. Federation of Old Cornwall Societies; pp. 18–21</ref>

==Cornish wrestling==
[[Cornish wrestling]] tournaments, for prizes, were held in St Allen in the 1800s.<ref name="CT28091853">The Cornish Telegraph, 28 September 1853.</ref>

==References==
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* {{cite web|url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Cornwall/StAllen/index.html|title=GENUKI article on St Allen|accessdate=19 April 2019}}

==External links==
{{Portal|Cornwall}}
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* {{cite web|url=http://crocat.cornwall.gov.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqSearch=((text)='st%20allen') |title=Online Catalogue for St Allen|last=Cornwall Record Office|accessdate=3 June 2009}}
* {{cite web|url=http://homepages.tesco.net/~k.wasley/Allen.htm|title=St Allen|last=Wasley|first=K.|accessdate=3 June 2009}}
* {{cite web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blanchec/eastwhealrose.htm |title=East Wheal Rose disaster|accessdate=3 June 2009}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.littlerichley.eclipse.co.uk/soil/ |title=St Allen Opposes the Industrialisation of the Landscape (S.O.I.L.)}}

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