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Monument Number 427343
Hob Uid: 427343
Location : Cornwall St. Keverne
Grid Ref : SW7909221299
Summary : A monastery of St Keverne or St Kieran is documented at Lanachebran in the 6th century. It was still extant at the Domesday Survey when it was a secular college.
More information : 79132131. Lanheverne, "the old Celtic name of the Church of St Keverne, is still applied to the Churchtown lands. The name implies the Lan or Monastery of St Keveran". (1-2) (SW 79042122)Monastery (NR) (Site of). (3) Borlase equates "Lanachebran", where there were Secular Canons in the time of Edward the Confessor, with St Keverne. However he considered that the ruins at Tregonning (a cell and grange, see SW 72 SE 12) incorporated part of the Collegiate church. (4) Given that there was a pre-Conquest collegiate monastery at St Keverne, there is no ground or documentary evidence to establish its site. The unsupported published site is in St Keverne church town and to that extent is probably nearer the original than the now current tradition that it was at Tregonning. (5) St Keverne is listed as the site of a pre-Saxon graveyard on the evidence of the Domesday "Canoci Sancti Achebranni tenent Lannachebran". This appears to refer to the church of an unknown Celtic saint possibly named 'Akebran'. (6-7)

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Source details : Antiquities of Cornwall 4 Pt 2 1769 389 (Borlase)
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Source details : Place Names of Corn MS 1948 551 (J E Gover)
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Early Medieval
Display Date : Extant
Monument End Date : 1066
Monument Start Date : 500
Monument Type : Monastery
Evidence : Documentary Evidence

Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : Extant
Monument End Date : 1086
Monument Start Date : 1066
Monument Type : Monastery, College Of Secular Priests
Evidence : Documentary Evidence

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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SW 72 SE 56
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Relationship type : General association

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Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1973-03-05
End Date : 1973-03-05

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 427343