Fowey is a busy Cornish town and port on the south coast of Cornwall, with lovely narrow streets and a haven for small boats
During the 17th century the harbour’s competition for trade was with Plymouth and elsewhere. Fishing became more important, but local merchants were often appointed as privateers and did some smuggling on the side. Tin, copper and iron mines, along with quarries and china clay pits became important industries in the area. Fowey has a natural deep-water anchorage and a rail link gave it an advantage over the shallow artificial harbours nearer to the mines and china clay works. The Fowey Harbour Commissioners were established by an Act of Parliament in 1869, to develop and improve the harbour. Fowey Lifeboat Station was established by the RNLI near the Town Quay in 1922 that was replaced in 1997, by a new facility in Passage Street. Fowey was the main port for loading ammunition for the US 29th Division that landed on Omaha Beach on D Day during the Second World war. The church is dedicated to Saint Finbarr and is listed Grade I. It was built in the early 14th century and rededicated in 1336, replacing a previous Norman church. The church was damaged by the French in 1457, and repaired in 1460 by the Earl of Warwick, when the clerestory and the north and south aisles were rebuilt. There is a nave and two aisles with a clerestory, and the aisles are unusually wide. The16th century tower has buttresses and bands of ornament. There is an exceptionally fine 15th-century carved wagon roof. The font is Norman, of Catacleuze stone. The hexagonal pulpit was made in 1601. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch is buried in the churchyard
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Location: Fowey, Cornwall, England, UK
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