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The church and manor of St Enoder belonged in Anglo-Saxon times to the [[Bodmin Monastery|monks of Bodmin]] and were before 1066 held by Godric. In 1086 they were held by Robert, Count of Mortain, from the monks; there was one hide of land, land for 6 ploughs and 20 acres of pasture. At a later date St Enoder fell into lay hands and c. 1268 was given to [[Glasney College]]. The benefice was appropriated to Glasney College in 1270 and the cure of souls became a vicarage; however in 1867 it was made into a rectory as the incumbent was receiving the tithes of certain meadows formerly the yards of chapels.<ref>''The Cornish Church Guide'' (1925) Truro: Blackford; p. 91</ref><ref>Thorn, C., et al., eds. (1979) ''Cornwall''. (Domesday Book; 10.) Chichester: Phillimore; entry 4,12</ref>

[[File:Cross In Churchyard.jpg|alt=Stone cross in the churchyard|thumb|Stone cross in the churchyard of St Enoder]]

In medieval times there was a chapel of St Mary (corrupted to St Michael) existing in the parish until it was destroyed in 1414.<ref>George Oliver (1846) ''Monasticon Diœcesis Exoniensis, being a Collection of Records and Instruments illustrating the ancient conventual, collegiate, and eleemosynary Foundations in the Counties of Cornwall and Devon''. Exeter: P. A. Hannaford</ref> At [[Mitchell, Cornwall|Mitchell]] a chapel of St Francis for the use of wayfarers existed from 1239 until its destruction at the Reformation.<ref>''The Cornish Church Guide'' (1925) Truro: Blackford; p. 91</ref>

There is a modern chapel of St Francis at [[Indian Queens]]; an early memorial stone formerly sited four miles from Mitchell (in the 18th century) was moved to the Indian Queens Inn in 1872. Charles Henderson described it as having been originally a boundary stone between the parishes of St Enoder and St Columb Major. It was moved from the inn to the churchyard in 1939.<ref>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1016367 An early Christian memorial stone in St Francis churchyard, Indian Queens]; Historic England (citing: Okasha, E., ''Corpus of Early Christian Inscribed Stones of South-west Britain'', 1993)</ref> (the stone is illustrated in [[Indian Queens]]). The inscription is almost illegible but R. A. S. Macalister read it as "Cruarigi h[ic iacit]" (i.e. 'the body of Cruarigus lies here'; a different reading by Arthur Langdon was published in the Victoria County History).<ref>Hencken, H. O'Neill (1932) ''The Archaeology of Cornwall and Scilly''. London: Methuen; p. 222</ref>

There is a stone cross in the churchyard which was found beside the road from the churchtown to Fraddon. It was set up in the churchyard in 1879 but moved to a different position in the churchyard in 1893.<ref>Langdon, A. G. (2002) ''Stone Crosses in Mid Cornwall''; 2nd ed. Federation of Old Cornwall Societies; p. 34</ref>