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Glasney College was founded at Penryn
Penryn, Cornwall

Penryn is a town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom on the Penryn river. Although now the area is largely dominated by Falmouth, Cornwall, in the medieval period it was an important harbour in its own right, exporting granite and tin....
, Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
 in 1265 by Bishop Bronescombe
Walter Branscombe

Walter Branscombe was bishop of Exeter from 1258 to 1280....
 and was the centre of ecclesiastical power in Cornwall's Middle Ages
Middle Ages

File:Karl 1 mit papst gelasius gregor1 sacramentar v karl d kahlen.jpgThe Middle Ages of European history are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christi...
 and probably the best known and most important of Cornwall's monastic institutions. Much of the building was modelled on the already existing Exeter Cathedral
Exeter Cathedral

Exeter Cathedral, full name Cathedral Church of Saint Peter, is an Anglican cathedral in the city status in the United Kingdom of Exeter, Devon, in the South West England of England and the seat of the bishop of Exeter....
. The site at Glasney was at the head of a small creek and as a defence Bishop Bronescombe built three towers, forming one block which acted as a defence both for the college and the town of Penryn.






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Glasney College was founded at Penryn
Penryn, Cornwall

Penryn is a town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom on the Penryn river. Although now the area is largely dominated by Falmouth, Cornwall, in the medieval period it was an important harbour in its own right, exporting granite and tin....
, Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
 in 1265 by Bishop Bronescombe
Walter Branscombe

Walter Branscombe was bishop of Exeter from 1258 to 1280....
 and was the centre of ecclesiastical power in Cornwall's Middle Ages
Middle Ages

File:Karl 1 mit papst gelasius gregor1 sacramentar v karl d kahlen.jpgThe Middle Ages of European history are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christi...
 and probably the best known and most important of Cornwall's monastic institutions. Much of the building was modelled on the already existing Exeter Cathedral
Exeter Cathedral

Exeter Cathedral, full name Cathedral Church of Saint Peter, is an Anglican cathedral in the city status in the United Kingdom of Exeter, Devon, in the South West England of England and the seat of the bishop of Exeter....
. The site at Glasney was at the head of a small creek and as a defence Bishop Bronescombe built three towers, forming one block which acted as a defence both for the college and the town of Penryn. Miracle plays were performed here and elsewhere in Cornwall in the Cornish language
Cornish language

The Cornish language is one of the Brythonic group of Celtic languages. The language continued to function as a community language in parts of Cornwall until the late 18th century, and there have been attempts to revive the language since the early 20th century....
. Only a few Cornish-language plays survive today including several that were composed at Glasney, the Ordinalia
Ordinalia

The Ordinalia are three medieval mystery plays. The three plays comprise Origo Mundi, , Passio Christi and Resurrexio Domini . They were written in the Cornish language....
: The Creation of the World, The Passion of our Lord, The Resurrection of our Lord; Bewnans Meriasek
Beunans Meriasek

Beunans Meriasek is a medieval play completed in 1504 that tells the legends of the life of St Meriasek. it was written in the Cornish language....
 (The Life of St Meriasek - the patron saint of Camborne
Camborne

Camborne was once one of the richest mining areas in the world and is located in north Kerrier, Cornwall in the United Kingdom, forming the western end of the greater Camborne, Pool, Cornwall and Redruth conurbation....
).

Destruction of Glasney

Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries
Dissolution of the Monasteries

The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, denotes the administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII of England disbanded all monastery, nunnery and friary in England, Wales and Ireland; appropriated their income, disposed of their assets and provided f...
, between 1536 and 1545, signalled the end of the big Cornish priories but as a Chantry Church
Chantry

Chantry is the England term for the establishment of an institutional chapel on private land or within a greater church, where a priest would chant Mass ....
, Glasney held on until 1548 when it suffered the same fate. The smashing and looting of Cornish colleges such as a Glasney and Crantock
Crantock

Crantock is a village and parish in the Restormel district of mid-Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It dates back to 460 AD when a group of Irish hermits founded an oratory there....
 brought an end to the formal scholarship that had helped sustain the Cornish language and Cornish cultural identity and played a significant part in fomenting opposition to forthcoming cultural 'reforms' which led to the Prayer Book Rebellion
Prayer Book Rebellion

The Prayer Book Rebellion, Prayer Book Revolt, Prayer Book Rising, Western Rising or Western Rebellion was a popular revolt in Cornwall and Devon, in 1549....
 of 1549. Apart from being sorely missed centres of indigenous cultural excellence many in Cornwall would have seen these institutions as being a bridge to the Celtic
Celt

Celts , is a modern term used to describe any of the European peoples who spoke, or speak, a Celtic languages. The term is also used in a wider sense to describe the Modern Celts of those peoples, notably those who participate in a Celtic culture....
 past, back even to the Christianised paganism of their forefathers. When traditional religious processions and pilgrimages were banned in 1548, commissioners were sent out to smash all symbols of Cornish Catholicism. In Cornwall this job fell to William Body, whose desecration of religious shrines angered many and along with other assaults on Cornish legal rights, culture, language and religion, led to his murder on 5 April 1548 at Helston
Helston

Helston is a small town and civil parish in the Kerrier district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, at the northern end of the The Lizard. It is the most southerly town in the UK, being 3 km south of Penzance....
.

Present site

Today the only surviving remains of Glasney are a portion of wall and an arch. In 1986 the "Friends of Glasney College Society" was established in Penryn by Dr James Whetter, who in his book The History of Glasney College describes the destruction of Glasney as a damaging blow to the history and spirit of the Cornish nation. At the present-day Tremough
Tremough

Tremough Campus is a university campus situated in Penryn, Cornwall, Cornwall. It is the only such university project in Cornwall currently. The name Tremough derives from the Cornish language word for "pig farm"....
 campus the student accommodation has been named Glasney Parc.

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