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== Parish History == | == Parish History == | ||
Gwitihian St Gwithian was a chapelry of [[Phillack,_Cornwall]] Ancient Parish in Cornwall.<br> | |||
The church and relics of St Gwithian or Gocianus, built in 490, were uncovered from the beach and dunes during the early part of the last century, but were then allowed to be reclaimed by the shifting sands. He is the patron saint of good fortune on the sea. The current church was established further inland in the 15th century but only a few fragments of this building remain incorporated in the lychgate of Edmund Sedding's church of 1866 (the tower however is the original one of the 15th cent.)<br> | |||
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