Maker is a small village between
Cawsand and
Rame Head, situated on the
Rame Peninsula, in
South East Cornwall,
England. The name means a ruin in Cornish, but another
Celtic name is
Egloshayle, which means, the church on the estuary, a very apt description of the church's location. In their western advance across England, the
Anglo-Saxons halted at the
Tamar, but in 705, King Geriant of
Cornwall gave the promontory on the Cornish side of the mouth of the Tamar to
Sherborne Abbey, to keep control of the Tamar mouth in
Saxon hands. This was royal land, and remained in
Devon until
1844.The
Normans installed the Valletorts as tenants of most of the land controlling the Tamar. From them, Maker passed by marriage to the Durnford family and then to the Edgcumbe family. The church is a typical 15th Century Cornish church. It was a time of rebuilding throughout the country and churches were designed for preaching the word rather than stressing the
liturgy. The
aisles are the same length as the
nave, and there is a massive western tower. The Edgcumbe chapel was added in
1874. The neighbouring village of
Rame together with Maker form 'Maker with Rame' parish.
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