Rame, Maker-with-Rame

Rame (Cornish: Hordh) is a hamlet between Rame Head and the village of Cawsand in South East Cornwall. It is situated on the Rame Peninsula. Rame means the high protruding cliff, or possibly, the ram's head.

For the hamlet in southwest Cornwall, see Rame, Wendron.

Rame
Rame
Location within Cornwall
OS grid referenceSX425494
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townTORPOINT
Postcode districtPL10
Dialling code01752
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireCornwall
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament

Cawsand was previously in the parish of Rame but now has its own church. The parish of 'Maker-with-Rame' is formed of the hamlets Maker, which also has a church and Rame. Rame was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, when it was held by Ermenhald from Tavistock Abbey. There were 27 households, land for 6 ploughs, 10 acres of pasture and 30 acres of underwood.[1] An electoral ward bearing the name of Rame exists. The population as of the 2011 census was 4,763.[2]

There is another Rame near Falmouth in west Cornwall. It is believed that the west Cornwall Rame was named after the one on the Rame Peninsula.

During his time in command of the Channel Fleet between 1805 and 1807 John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent rented a house in Rame.[3]

Parish church
Main article: St Germanus' Church, Rame
Rame Church
Rame viewed from the sea

The church in the hamlet is dedicated to St. Germanus, the fighting bishop who is supposed to have landed in the neighbourhood when he came to Britain to suppress the Pelagian heresy in 400. The site however is also an ancient Cornish pagan holy site. Built of rough slate, the present stone building was consecrated in 1259. The slender, un-buttressed tower with its broached spire (an unusual feature in a Cornish church), the north wall and the chancel are all probably of this date, when the church was cruciform in shape. A southern aisle was added in the 15th century and the Norman tympanum is a relic of the earlier church building on the site.[4] The church is not supplied with electricity and so is lit by candles.

See also

References
  1. Thorn, C., et al., eds. (1979) Cornwall. (Domesday Book; 10.) Chichester: Phillimore; entry 3,3
  2. "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  3. Davidson, James D.G. (18 September 2006). Admiral Lord St Vincent: Saint or Tyrant?: The Life of Sir John Jervis, Nelson's Patron. Pen and Sword. pp. Chapter 18.
  4. Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall: The Buildings of England, 2nd ed. rev. by E. Radcliffe, Penguin Books, 1970.

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