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St Endellion () is a civil parish and hamlet in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The hamlet and parish church are situated four miles (6.5 km) north of Wadebridge.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 Newquay & Bodmin
The parish takes its name from Saint Endelienta, who is said to have evangelised the district in the fifth century and to have been one of the children of Brychan. Two wells near the church are named after her. The name is included in the electoral ward of St Minver and St Endellion, which includes Polzeath and Rock, with a population at the 2011 census of 3268.
St Endellion lies within the Cornwall National Landscape (AONB). Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation, with the same status and protection as a National Park.
The houses at Roscarrock and Tresungers are : at Roscarrock part of the medieval house remains and is Grade I listed; Tresungers farmhouse was built in the late 16th century.Pevsner, Nikolaus (1970) Cornwall; 2nd ed., edited by Enid Radcliffe. Penguin Books The Roscarrock family included Nicholas Roscarrock, whose book is a source of information on some of the Cornish saints, and probably also Francis Roscarrock and other British MPs called Roscarrock. "Roscarrek Muer" is an early form of the place-name Roscarrock and it means "great rock roughland".Weatherhill, Craig (2009) A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-names. Westport, Mayo: Evertype; p. 60 In Beacham & Pevsner's Cornwall Roscarrock is described as "one of Cornwall's most memorable houses". It is the gentry house of the Roscarrocks who occupied it from the 11th century to 1673.Peter Beacham; Nikolaus Pevsner (2014). Cornwall. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 481–483. ISBN 978-0-300-12668-6
The earliest record of the church is in 1260, and in 1288 it is recorded as a collegiate church with four prebendary. One of the prebends to which was attached the cure of souls came to be entitled to the rectory. It somehow escaped abolition in 1545 (when only the rector was resident) and continues to the present day: one of the prebendaries is the Rector, and the others usually incumbents of nearby parishes. The prebend of Marnay's or St Elen's is usually held by the incumbent of Lanhydrock. A new ecclesiastical parish of Port Isaac was created out of the parish in 1913 and one of the prebends became the endowment of that benefice, whose incumbent was a vicar. Cornish Church Guide (1925) Truro: Blackford, pp. 89–91 In 1929, Walter Frere, Bishop of Truro, revived the collegiate foundation with new statutes, such that the holder of the Rectoral prebend would be resident and paid; while the other three prebends would be honorific, but with spiritual obligations in regularly supporting their co-prebends in prayer, and in meeting in an annual chapter. Consequently, St Endellion remains as one of only three non-academic medieval collegiate foundations in England to continue as an active college - the others being Westminster Abbey, and St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. The church was designated as Grade I listed in 1969.
There was previously a chapel located at Roscarrock, but this was in ruins by 1814.Daniel Lysons and Samuel Lysons, 'Parishes: Egloshayle - St Ewe', in Magna Britannia: Volume 3, Cornwall (London, 1814), pp. 81-98. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/magna-britannia/vol3/pp81-98 accessed.
While the actual date of foundation of the church is unknown legend tells that St Endelienta, when she was dying, asked her friends to have her body placed on a sledge pulled by bullocks (or calves) and to be buried where they stopped, that being the very spot where the church now stands.
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