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St. Breward in History PART IV Tradition, Mood and Memories Written by David Freeman for Secret Britain |
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Photograph © Jackie Freeman Photography - St. Breward – Cornwall
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aint Breward in Cornwall was once a string of tiny separate hamlets. Churchtown, Rylands, Limbhead, now Limehead, Wenford, Penvorder, Higher and Lower Penquite. Built and dependent on the stone of Bodmin's great moor, the village has merged over the centuries into a single village entity with one heart. |
It is to the great stone quarries of St Breward that much is owed both in reality in the development of the village of St Breward over the centuries and so too, giving the village a unique beauty which was created by it. Jackie Freeman, a local award winning photographer, has captured many special images of St Breward and its Cornish setting which give us a sense of what this place is all about. It is a unique insight into the Cornish village, its surroundings and its fine sons and daughters.
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Above: At the disused quarry at St Breward, can be seen long gone unfinished quarrymens work, still sitting where it lay when the quarry was abandoned.. Photograph © Jackie Freeman Photography - St. Breward Cornwall |
The Kennels of the North Cornwall Hunt are to be found here in St Breward Photograph © Jackie Freeman Photography - St. Breward North Cornwall |
THE OLD WENFORD INN & the WENFORD POTTERS
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Photograph © Jackie Freeman Photography - St. Breward Cornwall
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Original Wenford Pottery Sign |
Once a traditional Inn and brew house and an exceptionally popular tavern called the Old Wenford Inn, this traditional Cornish cottage and its outbuildings are situated at the bottom of a long and winding hill which is the main route from the south into the village of St Breward.
The Old Wenford Bridge Pottery as it was to become after closing as a village pub is a landmark still proudly bearing its distinctive logo designed and painted by the illustrious artist who lived here. The Wenford Inn / Pottery is set within a cluster of charming cottages built in traditional Cornish style nestling on the banks of the Camel on Wenford Lane, St Breward.
In the 1930's a highly creative British potter and author called Michael Cardew, a pupil of the very famous British ceramicist Bernard Leach who saw him as his best pupil ever, took the old Wenford Inn over and the Wenford Inn at St Breward became the Wenford Bridge Pottery and Museum where Michael Cardew created his unique earthenware and stoneware pottery works of art & traditionally fired his innovative ceramics in wood burning kilns.
Michael Cardew was an inspiring potter, an artist who tutored and nurtured many fine apprentices in his trade including his son Seth, Svend Bayer, Michael OBrien and Danlami Aliyu and many other creative artists at his studios at the Wenford pottery near St Breward. Cardew had an astonishing life contributing his wealth of experience of pottery design and his great creative talent to many potters who followed his lead and he went of to live for many years in West Africa, travelling the world as a pottery expert teaching and lecturing on the subject of creative ceramics |
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Michael Cardew, was rightly awarded both an OBE and an MBE by Queen Elizabeth II for his dynamic contributions to 20th century ceramics and was also elected for knighthood in 1983. This was not to be as Michael Cardew passed away in before it was awarded.
Sadly, the old pottery at Wenford Bridge with its distinctive sign and run as a commercial pottery studio for long after his fathers death by Michael Cardew's son Seth, himself a fine potter, has long since closed and is currently once again up for sale. Seth Cardew now runs a pottery studio in rural Spain.
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Michael Cardew |
PARISH CHURCH OF ST BREWARD: |
It is with great sadness that we learn recently of the death of Seth Cardrew. An innovative potter who worked for many years in the village St Breward which I documented HERE. The Old Wenford Bridge Pottery - St Breward. |
Traditional English road sign Wenford bridge. Photograph © Jackie Freeman Photography - St. Breward Cornwall |
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15th Century Porch Doorway - Parish Church of St Breward Cornwall Locally quarried and cut granite lintels and surrounds. Photograph © Jackie Freeman Photography - St. Breward Cornwall |
^ Old quarry gate and sign at Hantergantic Quarry St Breward, Cornwall Photograph © Jackie Freeman Photography - St. Breward Cornwall |
^ Traditional granite donkey driven cider press at Coombe Mill, St Breward Photograph © Jackie Freeman Photography - St. Breward Cornwall |
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St Breward granite buttresses on a Cornish barn nearby. Photograph © Jackie Freeman Photography - St. Breward Cornwall
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17th century deserted farm buildings. Treswallock St Breward. Photograph © Jackie Freeman Photography - St. Breward |
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St Breward's traditional stonemason Steve Kay a traditional stonemason is seen here working on a granite block in his workshop in St Breward. Apart from being extremely good at his job and a master craftsman, Steve brought St Breward into the media spot light by personally losing over 100 kgs in a diet which consisted of drinking beef extract drinks for over a year. Photograph © Jackie Freeman Photography - St. Breward |
^ Old granite style St Breward Photograph © Jackie Freeman Photography - St. Breward
The balance of this part of the site will be added soon St Brewards Traditional Tradesmen St Brewards Listed Buildings |
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