St Sampson, Cornwall

St Sampson is a civil parish in mid-Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

[1] Formally known as the parish of Golant (Golant is a small village on the west bank of the Fowey river) the parish is bounded on the north by Lanlivery, on the east by the river Fowey which separates it from St Winnow, St Veep and Lanteglos-by-Fowey, on the south by Fowey, and on the west by Tywardreath.

[2] The small church has a holy well by the south porch and is dedicated to St Sampson, by whose name the parish is usually known.

Features of interest include bench ends made into a pulpit and a sculpture of the head of Christ (perhaps Italian).

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