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Of all the churches in southeast Cornwall, St Tallan contains perhaps the most surprises.

A church set in ‘Clay Country’ 600ft above sea level on the site of an Iron Age fort and looking out towards Newquay and the north coast of Cornwall.

The story goes that St Wyllow, a Christian hermit, was living nearby in 596, legend has it that he was killed beheaded but that he brought the head here, thus deciding where the church should be built.

This church is the first designed and built by the eminent Victorian architect George Edmund Street.

St Magnus Cathedral known as the Light in the North and founded in 1137 by the Viking, Earl Rognvald, in honour of his uncle St Magnus, dominates Kirkwall on Orkney.

St Cubert was a Welsh missionary who came over in the 7th century, together with his companion St Carantoc.