Temple

• Memorial inscriptions from the Temple cemetery, and recorded by the CORNWALL INSCRIPTIONS PROJECT, found 34 headstones plus other memorials with 133 names.
• The Cornwall Family History Society have published Monumental Inscriptions for the Parish Church - 56 entries.

Census information for this parish (1841 - 1901) is held in the Cornwall Record Office. The Cornwall Family History Society offers a census search service for its members.
Specific census information for this parish is available as follows:

• 1841. The 1841 Census of Temple (HO107/152), Enumeration District 4, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1851. The 1851 Census of Warleggan & Temple (HO107/1904), Enumeration District 2, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1861. The 1861 Census of Warleggan & Temple (RG9/1535), Enumeration District 10, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1871. The 1871 Census of Temple (RG10/2248), Enumeration District 10, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1881. The 1881 Census of Warleggan & Temple (RG11/2290), Enumeration District 10, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1891. The 1891 Census of Temple (RG12/1815), Enumeration District 10, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.

• Anglican. The Knights Templars possessed land here in the 12th century. On 26th August 1335, Bishop Grandisson certified to King Edward III that the prior and brethren of St John of Jerusalem then held the parish; these Knights Templar left a lasting reminder of their order in the present name. In 1314 the order was suppressed and the Knights Hospitallers took over their land and property. In 1340 the community at Temple consisted of the Preceptor, one brother and two male servants. Temple was confiscated by Henry VIII in the Reformation, and in the 18th century the church became a notorious place where marriages could be preformed without Banns or License. In 1744 it was given the glebe from Queen Anne's bounty and became an ecclesiastical parish.
  In the middle of the 19th century Temple was practically a deserted village with an ash tree growing in the floor of the church.
  The parish church is located in OS Grid Square SX1473 and was dedicated to St Catherine. It comprised a chancel, nave and north transept. By the mid 19th century, only the first stage of the tower remained. About 1883, when the population was increasing in the area, the small church was virtually rebuilt.
• Non-Conformists. Bible Christians in the parish used a chapel in the neighbouring parish of Helland.

• The Cornwall Record Office holdings: Baptisms 1884 - 1960, Marriages 1884 - 1960.
• Banns. Banns 1884 to 1911 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
• Marriages. Marriages 1884 to 1911 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).

The parish of Temple was in the Bodmin Registration District, and has been since 1st July 1837; there were sub-districts are Bodmin, Egloshayle, Lanlivery and St Mabyn but these have now been abolished. Parishes within the district were: Blisland, Bodmin, Bodmin Borough, Cardinham, Egloshayle, Endellion, Helland, Lanhydrock, Lanviet, Lanlivery, Lostwithiel, Luxulion, St. Kew, St. Mabyn, St. Minver Highlands, St. Minver Lowlands, St. Tudy, St. Winnow, Temple, Wadebridge, Warleggon, Withiel.

The Superintendant Registrar can be contacted at: Lyndhurst, 66 Nicholas Street, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL31 2AG. Tel: 01208 73677.

• The The Parochial and Family History of the Parishes of St Teath and Temple in the county of Cornwall is available on-line, courtesy of the Old Cornwall Society. It was published by Sir John Mclean in 1876.

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• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Temple to another place.

• OPC Assistance.
  • The On-line Parish Clerk (OPC) scheme operates a service to help family historians; the OPC page for this parish is available on-line, from where the OPC can be contacted by email.

• Map of the Bodmin Registration District in which the parish lies.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SX145732 (Lat/Lon: 50.528739, -4.619199), Temple which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

Temple parish was part of the Bodmin Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief.

Temple was incorporated into the parish of Blisland in 1934.

The parish comprises 822 acres of land.