Rame is a hamlet between
Rame Head and the village of
Cawsand in
South East Cornwall. It is situated on the
Rame Peninsula. Rame means the high protruding cliff, or possibly, the ram's head.There is another
Rame near
Falmouth in west Cornwall. It is believed that the west Cornwall Rame was named after the one on the
Rame Peninsula. The Church in the hamlet is dedicated to
St. Germanus, the fighting
German bishop who is supposed to have landed in the neighbourhood when he came to England to suppress the
Pelagian heresy in
400. It is all built of rough slate. the first stone building was consecrated in 1259. The slender, un-buttressed tower with its broached spire (an unusual feature in a Cornish church), the north wall and the
chancel are all probably of this date, when the church was
cruciform in shape. The church is not supplied by electricity, and is lit by candles. Originally
Cawsand was in the parish of Rame, but now has it's own church in the village.
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