Lanteglos-by-Fowey is a coastal civil parish in south Cornwall

Cornwall

Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...

, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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. It is situated on the east side of the tidal estuary of the River Fowey

River Fowey

The River Fowey is a river in Cornwall, United Kingdom.It rises about north-west of Brown Willy on Bodmin Moor, passes Lanhydrock House, Restormel Castle and Lostwithiel, then broadens at Milltown before joining the English Channel at Fowey. It is only navigable by larger craft for the last ....

 which separates it from the town and civil parish of Fowey

Fowey

Fowey is a small town, civil parish and cargo port at the mouth of the River Fowey in south Cornwall, United Kingdom. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 2,273.-Early history:...

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To the north, Lanteglos-by-Fowey is bounded by the parish of St Veep

St Veep

St. Veep is a civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom situated above the east bank of the Fowey Estuary about three miles southeast of Lostwithiel....

, to the east by the parish of Lansallos

Lansallos

Lansallos is a coastal hamlet and a civil parish in south Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated between Polruan and Polperro about 5 miles east of Fowey and is in the Liskeard Registration District....

, and to the south by the sea. The parish is in the Liskeard Registration District and the population in the 2001 census was 994.

The village of Lanteglos Highway 50.345°N 4.615°W is in the north of the parish but the parish church of Saint Wyllow

Wyllow

Wyllow was a Cornish hermit saint and martyr whose existence was reported by William Worcester.Said to have been born in Ireland, he was reputedly beheaded by Melyn ys Kynrede in the parish of Lanteglos, near Fowey. Supposedly, he then carried his head for half a mile to St Willow's Bridge, where...

 is at Churchtown hamlet just over a mile (2 km) to the south at . St Saviour church (a chapel-of-ease of the parish church) is situated in Polruan

Polruan

Polruan is a small fishing village in the parish of Lanteglos-by-Fowey in Cornwall, England, UK. It is bounded on three sides by water: to the north by Pont Creek, to the west by the River Fowey and to the south by the English Channel and neighbours village Bodinnick to the north, connected by a 4...

, the largest settlement in the parish.

Parish church

The parish church, dedicated to St Wyllow, was built in the 14th century and refashioned in the 15th. The 16th century benchends and panels from family pews have been preserved in the careful restoration

Victorian restoration

Victorian restoration is the term commonly used to refer to the widespread and extensive refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria...

 by E. H. Sedding. The church contains the brasses of Thomas de Mohun, ca. 1440, and John Mohun and his wife, 1508.