St Bennets (EN) / Abatti Bennet (KW)

Type: 
Historic Site
Parish: 
Lanivet
Hundred: 
Pydarshire
Notes: 
Bennet considered to be the Cornish form of Benedict
Elements: 

abatti

Meaning: 
abbey

Bennet

This refers to the name of a person: 
name
Elements notes: 
<abatti> 'abbey' + <Bennet> personal name
Historic forms: 
Arthur Benet 1519-20 (N.A. – AR/2/279) St. Bennets (messuage) 1548/9 (N.A. – CM/175,176) a messuage called Seynt Benetes 1549 (Gover, 1948) St Bennets 1584 (Gover, 1948) S. Bennets 1748 (Martyn, 1748) St Bennetts House 1851 (Census 1851) St Bennets 1856 (OS 1856) St Bennets (Remains of St Bennet’s Monastery) 1888 (OS 1888) St Benet’s Abbey 2014 (OS 2014)