DIRECTORY.] CORN,YALL. PERRANZABULOE. 261
PERRAN UTHNOE. Laity Laura (Miss), shopkeeper, Post Crebo Richard, mason Astley Rev. Richard B.A. Rectory office, Church Town Dawe Ernest, cab proprietor Dennis Charles, The Bungalow Laity William & William Joseph, far- Gilbert George, potato salesman Sara. Joseph, Trevelyan cottage mers, Church Town Goldsithney Trading Co. (H. H •. COKMEBCIAL. Pbillips Thomas, farmer, Church Twn Harris, manager), coal merchants; Berryman Wm. farmer, Acton fa1m Ralph Wm.boot & soe ma.Church Tn Hosking Jarnes Henry, general mer !Battens Jas. apartments,Church Town Richards Robt. Hy. farmer, Helston rd Hosking John, blacksmith Boase James, farmer, Trebarvah Richards Robt. mine agt.Perrandowns .Tames Verrant, TreTruro to Perran-porth and from Redruth ther's charity of £2 yearly is distributed; £ r being for to St. Columb, and is 5 miles north-north-east from poor widows and £x for a sermon. St. Piran's Well, a. Chacewater station on the West Cornwall -section of the small baptistery, was distant half a mile north-east from Great Western railway, 7 north-west from Truro and the church and inclosed with granite walls ; the remains 8 north-east from Redruth, in the Truro division of the of the stone work have been removed to Chyverton, in county, hundred of Pyder, petty sessional division of this parish. North of the .site of the well is St. Piran's· Powder "\Yest, Truro union and county court district, round, a turfed amphitheatre and one of the most in rural deanery of Powder, archdeaconry of Cornwall and teresting specimens of the old open-air Cornish theatre diocese of Truro. The parish is greatly overblown with now remaining; it is 130 feet in diameter, with a ram· sea sand and in the adjoining bills are rabbit warrens. part ro feet in height, encircling the summit, ancL rises Navigation is rendered perilous along this coast on in seven .steps; rthe whole area. will hold about 2,ooo account of the rocks• by which it is skirted. The present persons and in mediceval times exhibitions of miracle- church is the third which has been erected in this plays were held: here ; within the round is a trenched'" parish: the earliest was the church or " oratory" of St. passage, communicating with an ovoid-shaped recess. Piran, an early British saint, who came from Ireland in Near the manor house of Tywarnhayle is a. small island,_ the 5th century, having been consecrated by St. Patrick on which formerly stood a chapel, called Engarder, the for a. mission to Cornwall; this building from its struc ruins of which were visible in 1733. Chyverton, the· tural peculiarities has been considered by competent handsome modern seat of Mrs. Peter, is :probably •SO· authorities to date from the 6th century, and is supposed called from an ancient ancl noble family now extinct_ to have been erected over the tomb of St. Piran, and Viscount Falmouth C.B., "!'ILV.O. the Rev. Sir Vyell a headless skeleton, con~ectured to be that of the saint, Donnithorne Vyvyan bart. of Trelowarren, Mawgan-in was found buried beneath the altar, when the oratory ).'l:enea.ge, Francis Gilbert EnY's esq. of Enys, St. Gluvia~. was first discovered and cleared from sand in 1835; its and the Rev. St. Aubyn Render Molesworth-St. Aubyn• external dimensions were found to be, length 29 feet, M.A. of Clowa.nce, Crowan, who are lords of the manor, breadth 16~ feet, height of gables, 19 feet; the masonry William Ernest Paget Hoblyn e.sq. of The Fir Hill, St. ~as of the rudest kind, china clay being .substituted for Colnmb, John Charles Willia.m;;~. esq. of Caerhayes Castle, hme; the entrance door was at the -south side, with a George Coulter Hancock esq. St. Agnes, and Mrs. Pet-ers semicircular arch ornamented with a leopard's head carved are the chief landvwners. Tha soil varies greatly; the on the key-stone and a human head on each side at the subsoil is shelf and spar. The chief crops produced are· spring of the arch; these, together with the corbels, are wheat, barley, oats and turnip..'!. The area is n,88r now in the Truro Museum: it is supposed that this acres of land, r6 of water, 8 of tidal water and 296 of oratory was first overwhelmed with sand in the 9th foreshore; rateable value, £7,431; rthe population in -century, when another church was erected, on the further r891 was 2,167 for the ecclesiastical and 2,374 for the side of a stream which kept back the shifting sands ; civil parish. this was rebuilt in 1420, in a style of some magnificence, and was safe from the encroachments of the sand for PERRA~PORTH, about 2 miles north-west from the mo:re than a century after: the course of the stream church, is a village on the coast, much frequented. in having been turned and its waters drawn off by the the summer months as a bathing-place, on account of working of mines, the sand encroached still further and its fine sandy beach. The chapel of ease here, a building in 1803 it was resolved, after some discussion, to remove of stone in the Early English style, was erected and, and rebuild the church; accordingly the tower, windows, opened in 1872, and consists of chancel and nave. The-re arches, pillars and porch were removed to a part of the is also a Wesleyan chapel and a Convalescent Home, parish called Lambourne, two miles distant, where now built at the expense of Mr. .T. Passmore Edward.s, of stands the present church of St. Piran, a cruciform London, who also provided the endowment fund of building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting £6,ooo, the trustees of which are the governors of the of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and an embattled Royal Cornwall Infirmary, Truro. Pilchard fishing is western tower with pinnacles containing 3 bells: in the carried on. A Board of Trade rocket apparatus is kept north transept is a tablet of white marble and under here. neath is the following inscription-" The first stone of The following are small hamlets, with their distances this parish church was laid in the year 1804, after two from the church :-BOLINGEY, I mile north-west, with former ones had been successively overwhelmed with the a Wesleyan chapel; OALLESTOCK, :x mile south, with fiand of the desert in which they were imprudently a Wesleyan chapel; PEl\TfiALLOW, three-quarters of a built"; in 1879 the church was re-opened, after having mile south, with a Bible Christian chapel; PERRA"N. undergona restoration throughout, at a. cost of £791; COMBE, 2 north-west; ROSE, 2 north-north-east, with the galleries were removed, the church reseated, the a Wesleyan chapel; VENTONGIMPS, I mile ~uth-east, chancel raised and a carved oak pulpit and western and GOONHAVERN, 2 miles north-east, with a Bible. ~creen constructed from the wood of the old benches : Christian chapel. there are 400 sittings. On the site of the second church Parish Clerk, Richard. Trenerry, Cocks bill . .stands a tall, roundheaded cross, 9 feet high and about two feet wide at the base. The register of baptisms Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcei' dates from the year 1614; marriages, 1003; burials, Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Perranportb. :1653• but the earlier portions consist of imperfect frag (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have R.S.O~ ments. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £203, Cornwall added).--.M:rs. Anna Lanyon, sub-postmis tress. Letters arrive at 7 a.m.; dispatched at 4·S p.m with 2 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Truro, and held since 1901 by the Wall Letter Box, Lambourne, cleared at 3-40 p. m. week ·-Rev. Henry Edwardes. A new vicarage house was days only
