# St Allen

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Civil parish in Cornwall, England

For the Breton bishop, see [Alain of Quimper](/source/Alain_of_Quimper).

Not to be confused with [Allen St](/source/Allen_Street).

Human settlement in England

St Allen Cornish: Eglosalan St Allen Church St Allen Location within Cornwall Population 456 (2011) OS grid reference SW831482 Unitary authority Cornwall Ceremonial county Cornwall Region South West Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town TRURO Postcode district TR4 Police Devon and Cornwall Fire Cornwall Ambulance South Western List of places UK England Cornwall 50°18′50″N 5°03′40″W / 50.314°N 5.061°W / 50.314; -5.061

**St Allen** ([Cornish](/source/Cornish_language): *Eglosalan (hamlet), Pluw Alan (parish)*) is a [civil parish](/source/Civil_parishes_in_England) in [Cornwall](/source/Cornwall), England, United Kingdom. The [church town](/source/Churchtown%2C_Cornwall) of St Allen is an isolated hamlet and the main settlement in the parish is [Zelah](/source/Zelah%2C_Cornwall) which is situated on the [A30](/source/A30_road) trunk road four miles (6.5 km) north of [Truro](/source/Truro).[1]

The population in the 2001 census was 435 people and the parish occupies 3,506 acres (14.19 km2) of land. The population had increased to 495 at the 2011 census.[2]

## History

The manor of Cargoll included St Allen and it was in the possession of the [bishops of Exeter](/source/Diocese_of_Exeter) from 1269 (the manor house was at Lanner). From 1287 the patrons of the living were the canons of [Glasney College](/source/Glasney_College)).[3]

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).[4] Little is known of this saint but he has been identified with the Breton bishop [Alan of Quimper](/source/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

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.[5] 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.[6]

## Cornish wrestling

[Cornish wrestling](/source/Cornish_wrestling) tournaments, for prizes, were held in St Allen in the 1800s.[7]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 204 *Truro & Falmouth* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-319-23149-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-319-23149-4)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Parish population 2011"](http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Cornwall/StAllen/index.html#Population). Retrieved 19 April 2019.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** *Cornish Church Guide* (1925) Truro: Blackford; p. 54

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** *Cornish Church Guide* (1925) Truro: Blackford

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Langdon, A. G. (1896) *Old Cornish Crosses*. Truro: Joseph Pollard; pp. 222–23 & 217–18

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Langdon, A. G. (2002) *Stone Crosses in Mid Cornwall*; 2nd ed. Federation of Old Cornwall Societies; pp. 18–21

1. **[^](#cite_ref-CT28091853_7-0)** The Cornish Telegraph, 28 September 1853.

- ["GENUKI article on St Allen"](http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Cornwall/StAllen/index.html). Retrieved 19 April 2019.

## External links

- [Cornwall portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Cornwall)

- Media related to [St Allen](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:St_Allen) at Wikimedia Commons

- Cornwall Record Office. ["Online Catalogue for St Allen"](http://crocat.cornwall.gov.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqSearch=((text)='st%20allen')). Retrieved 3 June 2009.

- Wasley, K. ["St Allen"](http://homepages.tesco.net/~k.wasley/Allen.htm). Retrieved 3 June 2009.

- ["East Wheal Rose disaster"](https://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blanchec/eastwhealrose.htm). Retrieved 3 June 2009.

- ["St Allen Opposes the Industrialisation of the Landscape (S.O.I.L.)"](http://www.littlerichley.eclipse.co.uk/soil/).

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