St Anthony-in-Meneage

The hamlet is on a peninsula between the Helford River and Gillan Harbour on the west side of Falmouth Bay, {{convert|5|mi|km|spell=in}} south of Falmouth and {{convert|7|mi|km|spell=in}} east of Helston at {{gbmapping|SW 782 256}}.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 204 Truro & Falmouth {{ISBN|978-0-319-23149-4}} It largely consists of a church, the former vicarage, a farmhouse, and various converted farm buildings now used as holiday accommodation{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}}. The peninsula ends at Dennis Head, the site of an early Celtic fortress.[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Cornwall/StAnthonyinMeneage/index.html Genuki website] Later it served as a Royalist stronghold during the Civil War, and provided a lookout point for the Home Guard during the Second World War.

The parish is divided by the tidal Gillan Creek. The hamlet and parish church are on the north side of the creek. On the south side are the hamlets of Carne, Flushing (not to be confused with the larger village of Flushing north of Falmouth) and Gillan, and further inland the small ancient settlements of Boden and Trewarnevas.

The South West Coast Path runs along both shores of Gillan Creek and crosses it on stepping stones only passable at low tide. The path then rounds Dennis Head and leaves the parish on the south shore of the Helford River. St Anthony-in-Meneage lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

The parish church is classified as a Grade I listed building and is dedicated to St Anthony.{{cite web |title=Church of Saint Anthony |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1141687?section=official-list-entry |website=Historic England |access-date=15 February 2025}} It is medieval though parts are of other dates: a window in the chancel (Early English) is the earliest and the north aisle with an arcade of plain octagonal piers somewhat later. The tower was built in the 15th-century of granite blocks at the west end. The font is ornamented with angels and a Latin inscription and is probably of the 15th-century.Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall; 2nd ed., revised by Enid Radcliffe. Penguin Books; pp. 155–56 N.B. Pevsner gives the dedication as St Dunstan

From no later than the mid-12th century adjacent to the churchyard was a grange{{efn|although traditionally referred to as a cell}} belonging to Tywardreath Priory. This grange may have originated as a Celtic monastery named Lantenning, of which there are no remains.[https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=426985&resourceID=19191 Heritage Gateway: Historic England Research Records - Monument Number 426985]

Tradition has it that a person of rank and fortune from Normandy, was driven by a storm into Gillan harbour and made a vow to St Anthony, that if he was saved, he would build a church in his memory. Soon after the Conquest, fine granite and an architect were brought from Normandy.{{cite news |title=An effort is made to restore the ancient ... |work=The Cornishman |issue=590 |date=24 October 1889 |page=4}}

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Bosahan House was a 19th-century country estate with a large house, which was demolished in 1884 and rebuilt on a grander scale. The Member of Parliament for West Cornwall, Arthur Pendarves Vivian MP bought the estate at an auction (reserve price £24,000) in 1882, when the estate was described as having a "fine residential mansion". Also included in the sale were the three farms of Halvose, Passage and Treath (about {{convert|197|acre}}) as well as some fishing and ferry rights on the River Hal.{{cite news |title=A Likely Purchaser For The Bosahan Property |work=The Cornishman |issue=200 |date=28 September 1882 |page=6}}{{cite news |title=Mr A Pendarves Vivian MP |work=The Cornishman |issue=321 |date=11 September 1884 |page=4}} At the time of the auction the estate covered {{convert|295|acre}} in the parishes of St Anthony, Manaccan and Constantine, and was originally developed by the Grylls family.{{cite news |title=Mr Pendarves Vivian, MP |work=The Cornishman |issue=223 |date=19 October 1882 |page=7}} The 1884 house was demolished in the 1950s and replaced by a smaller house.Matthew Beckett [http://lh.matthewbeckett.com/houses/lh_cornwall_bosahan_info_gallery.html Bosahan] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227201020/http://lh.matthewbeckett.com/houses/lh_cornwall_bosahan_info_gallery.html |date=2014-02-27 }}; England's Lost Country HousesOrdnance Survey One-inch Map of Great Britain; Truro and Falmouth, sheet 190. 1961[http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-65351-bosahan-lodge-gate-piers-gates-and-flanki Bosahan Lodge, Gate Piers, Gates and Flanking Walls]; British Listed Buildings In 1909, The Gardener's Magazine described the garden which had been developed over the previous 25 years, as "the most Cornish of all Cornish gardens".{{cite magazine |last1=Curtis |first1=Chas H |title=Some More Cornish Gardens II. Bosahan |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/173435#page/1/mode/1up |magazine=The Gardeners' Magazine |issue=2885 |date=13 February 1909 |pages=125–6}} Bosahan Garden is sometimes open to visitors.

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