St. Ervan

Ervan

I visited St. Ervan church on a warm and sunny July Saturday when I also managed to include the churches at St. Issey and St. Merryn and the work of the remarkable self-proclaimed bard, Ed Prynn, whose small garden has the most remarkable collection of standing stones, known to many locally as Prynnhenge. St. Ervan is a tiny settlement, just a farm, converted farm buildings and a former school house. The road peters out at the church but a track continues downhill to a ford and footbridge leading to what looks like a former mill building. The church is nicely set below a small green. It is dedicated, rather oddly, to St. Hermes, not the winged messenger of the gods but a Greek martyr. From the green the church looks even tinier than it really is, set below the level of the lych gate. It consists of a massive stubby tower, rebuilt in 1935 of reinforced concrete, porch, small nave and two transepts. There is an unusulally large number of slate memorials. . Usually so many would have been relegated to the graveyard: one is a delight, of a medieval gentlemen in balloon trousers. The porch door, its surround of local blue Cataclews stone, has a carving of an angel with two raucous birds. I visited in July 2016. I hope to revisit to explore down by the little river before too long.

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Tiny, secluded St. Ervan church with unusual tower

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