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Glasney College Remains

A Grade II Listed Building in Penryn, Cornwall

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.1665 / 50°9'59"N

Longitude: -5.1015 / 5°6'5"W

OS Eastings: 178599

OS Northings: 34206

OS Grid: SW785342

Mapcode National: GBR ZC.GM2G

Mapcode Global: FRA 086L.2BH

Plus Code: 9C2P5V8X+H9

Entry Name: Glasney College Remains

Listing Date: 18 July 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1298629

English Heritage Legacy ID: 365746

ID on this website: 101298629

Location: Penryn, Cornwall, TR10

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Penryn

Built-Up Area: Penryn

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: St Gluvias

Church of England Diocese: Truro

Description


PENRYN

SW7834SE GLASNEY TERRACE 580-1/6/64 (North side (off)) Glasney College remains

GV II

Remains of collegiate church. C13. Rubble with Caen stone dressings. A moulded respond and its abutment rising above impost level, possibly the remains of stone vaulting. Nearby stands a complex-moulded Caen stone sill (not in situ). HISTORY: The site for Glasney College was chosen as a result of vivid dreams by Bishop Bronescombe while he was ill and delirious at Canterbury. In these dreams he saw "Thomas Becket who foretold his recovery, and told him on his return west, to found in the woods of Glasney in the episcopal manor of Penryn a collegiate church to the glory of God and in the name of St Thomas the Martyr ...". (Whetter J: The History of Glasney College: Padstow, Cornwall: 1988-; Roddis R J: Penryn, The History of an Ancient Cornish Borough: 1964-: 42 -46).

Listing NGR: SW7859934206

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