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St Cheus Monastery
Hob Uid: 428858
Location : Cornwall Kea
Grid Ref : SW8450041700
Summary : Supposed site of monastery documented in the Domesday Survey, and probably at Old Kea by the River Truro.
More information : "The mysterious land-owning monastery of St Cheus mentioned in Domesday (in Powder), 1085, possibly refers to Kea", (and so to "Old Kea". The site of the old parish church at SW 844417). (1) Knowles and Hadcock concur with Henderson. In their 1953 edition giving foundation 1066 and dissolution circa 1080, but in the 1971edition merely repeating Henderson's supposition. (See SW 84 SW 14 for Old Kea Church). (2,3) Kea listed as a possible lan or pre-Saxon monastic establishment. (4)

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Source details : Corn Church Guide 1964 89 (C Henderson)
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Source details : Kingdom of Dumnonia 1978 73 179 (S M Pearce)
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Early Medieval
Display Date : Possibly Early Medaiaeval
Monument End Date : 1066
Monument Start Date : 43
Monument Type : Monastery
Evidence : Conjectural Evidence

Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : Extant in 1086
Monument End Date : 1086
Monument Start Date : 1086
Monument Type : Monastery
Evidence : Documentary Evidence

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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SW 84 SW 25
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