Qualla: St Levan https://qualla.com/st-levan en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:10 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: St Levan https://qualla.com/st-levan St Levan: Introduction https://qualla.com/st-levan/ The parish takes its name from a misunderstanding. The original saint was Salomon of Cornwall, a sixth-century Brythonic holy man whose name in the local language was Selevan. Somewhere in the medieval centuries an English-speaking scribe parsed the syllables Selevan as Sen Levan, took the first part for a Cornish honorific meaning saint, and produced from it a wholly fictional Saint Levan who has been the parish patron ever since. The saint is invented. The parish is not. It runs four miles along the south coast of the Penwith peninsula from Nanjizal to Penberth, taking in some of the most visited and most overlooked square miles in Cornwall, both at once.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/u/st-levan-wp/gbgu-st-levan-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full St Levan: Rowena Cade's Theatre https://qualla.com/st-levan/ In 1929 a local production of The Tempest played in a meadow at Crean. Rowena Cade, who had moved to Cornwall in 1919 and built herself a house at Minack Point above Porthcurno, watched the play and offered her own clifftop garden as the venue for a follow-up. The production was ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/u/st-levan-wp/gbgu-st-levan-rowena-cades-theatre.mp3 0:06 2 full St Levan: The Notable Residents https://qualla.com/st-levan/ The list of people who have lived in or close to St Levan parish runs longer than the population of most of its hamlets. Bertrand Russell, philosopher and Nobel laureate, kept a house here. John Piper, the painter who illustrated Betjeman's books and designed the windows at Coven...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/u/st-levan-wp/gbgu-st-levan-the-notable-residents.mp3 0:06 3 full St Levan: The Lavender https://qualla.com/st-levan/ Most of St Levan's coastline is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest, and one of the reasons is a small purple-flowered plant called rock sea lavender, Limonium loganicum, which grows in the salt-sprayed crevices of the granite cliffs. The species is endemic to the pa...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/u/st-levan-wp/gbgu-st-levan-the-lavender.mp3 0:06 4 full St Levan: The Old Wells and the Iron Age https://qualla.com/st-levan/ Above the sandy beach at Porthchapel sits the ruin of a small medieval chapel and, beside it, the carved granite slab and spring known as St Levan's Well. Cut into the cliff below, two stone structures may be the remains of a hermit's cell and an early oratory dating to the seven...

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