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With music from ‘the church of storms’ itself introduced by those Claire meets in the programme: I The Lord of Sea and Sky - The Church of St. Winwaloe, Gunwalloe 2.
The TV programme is in Cornwall this Sunday, visiting St Winwaloe Church at Gunwalloe’s Church Cove. Back in the summer approximately 80 people – plus two dogs – squeezed into the tiny ...
St Piran is still considered the patron saint of tin miners and the conversion of the raw black ore to the white liquid tin also inspired the colours of Cornwall's national flag, adopted circa 1838.
Gunwalloe on the Lizard - possibly once the home of St Winwaloe from Brittany - is thought to have been the site of an early medieval settlement. The west Cornwall site is eroded by winter storms ...
By the Middle Ages, the cult of St Piran had really taken hold in Cornwall. In the late 13th Century, a shrine at Perranzabuloe, containing the saint's skull, a wooden staff and his small copper ...