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'''St. Enodoc Church, Trebetherick''' (Old {{langx|kw|'''Gwenedek'''}}, ''St. Guenedoc'') is a chapel in the parish of [[St Minver]]. It is located to the south of the village of [[Trebetherick]], [[Cornwall]], England, United Kingdom ({{gbmapping|SW931772}}). It is a Grade I [[listed building]].<ref name=images>{{NHLE |num=1211902 |desc=Chapelry of St. Minver dedicated to St. Enodoc or St. Guinedoc.  |accessdate=2008-01-19 |mode = cs2}}</ref>

==Background==
The church is situated in [[sand dune]]s east of [[Daymer Bay]] and [[Brea Hill, Trebetherick|Brea Hill]] on the [[River Camel]] estuary. Wind-driven sand has formed banks that are almost level with the roof on two sides. From the sixteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century, the church was virtually buried by the dunes and was known locally as "Sinking Neddy"{{citation needed|date=January 2008}} or "Sinkininny Church".<ref name=images/> To maintain the [[tithe]]s required by the church, it had to host services at least once a year, so the vicar and parishioners descended into the sanctuary through a hole in the roof.{{dubious |Talk Holding yearly services to preserve the tithes|date=March 2023}} By 1864 it was unearthed and the dunes were stabilized.<ref>{{citation  | editor-last =Sackett | editor-first =Eliza  | title =British Churches | publisher =Bounty Books | year =2006 | location =London | page =11 | isbn =0-7537-1442-6 }}</ref>  The church is surrounded by the Church course of the St Enodoc Golf Club.<ref>{{citation  |url=http://www.st-enodoc.co.uk/churchcourse.shtm |title=The Church Course |access-date=2008-01-20 |publisher=St Enodoc Golf Club }}</ref>

==History==
The church is said to lie on the site of a cave where [[Enodoch|Enodoc]] lived as a [[hermit]].<ref name=calling>{{citation  |url=http://www.cornwall-calling.co.uk/churches/st-enodoc-church.htm |title=St Enodoc Church, Cornwall |access-date=2008-01-20 |publisher=Cornwall Calling }}</ref>  The oldest fabric in the church dates from around the twelfth century.  Additions were made in the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries.  By the eighteenth century the church was partly submerged in sand.<ref name=images/>  During the nineteenth century the sand was removed and the church was cleaned and restored under the direction of the vicar of St Minver, Rev. W. Hart Smith.<ref name=calling/>  The [[Victorian restoration|architectural restoration]] was carried out in 1863&ndash;64 by [[James Piers St Aubyn|J. P. St Aubyn]].<ref name=images/>

==Structure==
The church is built in stone [[rubble]] with slate roofs.  Its plan consists of a nave and chancel, a three-bay aisle to the south of the chancel, a north [[transept]] leading to the tower, which unusually is to the north of the church, and a south porch.  The tower is in two stages and is surmounted by a low broach spire.  On all four faces are small [[trefoil]]-headed belfry openings.<ref name=images/>

==Fittings and furniture==
[[Image:St Enodocs church2.JPG|left|thumb|upright|Church interior]]
The furnishings were largely replaced in 1863&ndash;64 although the base of a [[rood screen]] dating from around the fifteenth century has survived. The [[granite]] [[baptismal font|font]] dates from the twelfth century.  It has a lead lined round bowl which stands on a shaft carved with cable moulding on a round base.  A memorial stone to John Mably who died in 1687 is in the south porch. Inside the church on the south wall is a memorial to Ernest Edward Betjeman (1872–1934), the father of [[John Betjeman|Sir John Betjeman]].<ref name=images/> There is a memorial to the three crew lost on the [[brig]] ''[[Maria Asumpta]]'', which was wrecked on [[The Rumps]] in 1995.<ref name=Memorial>{{cite web |url=http://maritime-misc.fpic.co.uk/p61013795.html |title=Maria Asumpta Memorial |publisher=Maritime Misc |access-date=25 January 2011 }}{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==External features==
[[File:Betjeman memorial.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Sir John Betjeman]]'s [[gravestone]]]]
In the churchyard are two [[headstone]]s<ref>{{NHLE  |num=1124710 |desc= Headstone of John Edvvean  |accessdate=2008-01-20 |mode = cs2 }}</ref><ref>{{NHLE |num=1212057 |desc= Headstone of John Mably |accessdate=2008-01-20 | mode=cs2 }}</ref> and three tomb chests<ref>{{NHLE  |num=1124711 |desc= Tombchest of Simon Wilcox |accessdate=2008-01-20 |mode = cs2 }}</ref><ref>{{NHLE |num=1212045 |desc= Two tombchests of Richard Rounsevall and Mary Ken |accessdate=2008-01-20 | mode = cs2 }}</ref> which are listed Grade II.  Also in the churchyard is the grave of the former [[Poet Laureate|poet laureate]] [[John Betjeman]].<ref name=calling/> Interred there also are the ashes of [[Fleur Lombard]], the first female [[firefighter]] to die on duty in peacetime Britain.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.gertlushonline.co.uk/staple-hill-fire-1996.html |title=Fleur Lombard (1974–1996) |access-date=2008-01-20 |publisher=The Changing Face of Bristol England & its People |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202143318/http://www.gertlushonline.co.uk/staple-hill-fire-1996.html |archive-date=2 December 2008 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

About {{convert|0.6|mi|km}} to the south of the church is Jesus Well.  This is a [[holy well]] over which is a stone rubble wellhouse which was rebuilt probably in the nineteenth century and restored in the twentieth century. The wellhouse is a Grade II listed building.<ref>{{NHLE |num=1124712 |desc= Jesus Well |accessdate=2008-01-20 | mode = cs2 }}</ref><ref>{{citation |url=http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=8115 |title=Jesus Well |access-date=2008-01-20 |publisher=The Megalithic Portal }}</ref> Also in the churchyard is a Cornish cross which consists of a head and upper part of the shaft. These were found built into the churchyard wall in 1863.<ref>Langdon, A. G. (1896) ''Old Cornish Crosses''. Truro: Joseph Pollard; pp. 75-76</ref>

==Culture==
John Betjeman referred to the church in his poem ''Sunday Afternoon Service at St. Enodoc''.<ref name=calling/> The church is also featured prominently in [[Justin Cartwright]]'s novel ''The Promise of Happiness'' (2004), partly set in Trebetherick.

In the novel ''[[The Last Patriot]]'' by [[Brad Thor]], the main character, Scot Harvath, owns a house called Bishop's Gate, which is described as a twin to St. Enodoch.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Thor|first1=Brad|title=The Last Patriot|date=2009|publisher=Pocket Books|location=New York|isbn=978-1416543848|page=[https://archive.org/details/lastpatriotthril2009thor/page/210 210]|edition=1st Pocket Books pbk.|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/lastpatriotthril2009thor/page/210}}</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
{{Portal|Cornwall}}
*Adam Nicolson and [[Nick Meers]], ''Panoramas of England'', 1997, London: Orion (p.&nbsp;57)

==External links==
{{Commons category|St Enodoc's Church}}

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[[Category:Church of England church buildings in Cornwall]]
[[Category:Grade I listed churches in Cornwall]]
[[Category:English Gothic architecture in Cornwall]]