DIRECTORY.] . PERRAN-ZABULOE. 1125

Henry Williams, clerk to the board; Edward White, Pen-I Board School, built in 1879, for 150 children; average at- deen, , attendance officer tendance, 62; Miss Annia Penrose, mistress Astley Rev. Richard B.A. Rectory James Verrant, Trevelyan Arms P.H. Rowe Catherine Powning (Miss), sta- ClaphamRev.Elijah[Wes.],Gold'iithney tioner, Goldsithney Laity John, Goldsithney James William, manure dealer Rowe Elizabeth Jane (Miss), dress ma. Lanyon Mrs. Acton castle Johns Saml.Martin,grocer, Goldsithney Goldsithney Trevelyan Mrs. Manor cot. Goldsithney Kitto William,market gardnr.Ednovean Rowe Jane Martin (Mrs.) & Sons, COMMER<'IAL. Laity James, farmer, Manor farm farmers, Goldsithney AndrewAnnie(Mrs.),shpkpr.Goldsithny Laity James, jun.marketgardnr.Towan Rowe John, mining agent .Berryman John, farmer, Acton farm Laity John, farmer & lax:.downer, SampsonJohn, shopkeeper,Goldsithney 'Bettens James, lodging ho. Church twn Goldsithney SaundryEdwin, carpenter, Goldsithney Bray Peter, farmer, Trevean Laity Thomas, shopkeeper, Post office, SemmensSaml.Victoriainn,Churchtwn Buckett Caroline (Mrs.), private school Church town Snell Charles, Crown hotel, Goldsithney Crebo John, mason, Goldsithney Laity William, farmer, Church town Thomas Bridget (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Dawe Ernest, shoe maker, Goldsithney Mayne Ernest Henry Vincent, private Goldsithney Francis James, assistant overseer, school, Sycamore house, Goldsithney Thomas Stephen, farmer Goldsithney Mills William, grocer, Goldsithney Tregoning Margaret (Miss), lodging ho. Gilbert Elizabeth (Mrs.) &Son, farmers, Oats Martin, wheelwright, Goldsithney Goldsithney Church town Pearce Thomas, farmer, Church town Tin Mine (John Prisk, Gilbert William, farmer Ralph William, shoe maker agent), Goldsithney GundryElzh.(Miss),shpkpr.Goldsithney Rich Ann (Mrs.), shopkpr. Goldsithney Uren Henry, tailor, Goldsithney GnndryThos.markt.gardnr.Churchtwn Richards Joseph,shopkeepr.Goldsithney Veal John, blacksmith, Goldsithney Rarvey John Blight, farmer Richards Sarah (Miss), shopkeeper, Vellanoweth William, farmer Ropgood Rd. In.watch ma. Goldsithney Goldsithney Williams Henry, farmer, & clerk to the .James Sarah Ann (Mrs.), dress maker, Rodgers Mary Ann (Miss), greengrocer, school board, Ednovean Church town Goldsithney PERRAN-ZABULOE, or ST. PIRAN-IN-THE-SANDS, is Edwin Meeres RA. of St. Mary Hall, Oxford. A new vicar­ -a large township and parish, situated on the sea coast and age was erected in March, 1888. The inhabitants of this .on the road from to Perran-Porth, and from parish are chiefly employed in mining and agricnlture. to St. Columb, and is 7 miles north-west from Truro, 8 Cleather's charity of £2 yearly is distributed; £1 being for north-east from Redrnth and 5 north-north-east from Chace­ poor widows and £,1 for a sermon. St. Piran's Well, a water station on the West Cornwall section of the Great small baptistery, was distant half a mile north-east from Western raIlway, in the Truro division of the county, hun­ the church and inclosed with granite walls; the remains of dred of Pyder, petty sessional division of Powder West, the stone work have been removed to Chyverton, in this Truro union and county court district, rural deanery of parish. Nortb of the site of the well is St. Piran's round, a Powder, archdeaconry of Cornwall and . turfed amphitheatre and one of the most interesting speci­ The parish is greatly overblown with sea sand and in the ad­ mens of the old open-air Cornish theatre now remaining; it joining hills are rabbit warrens. Navigation is rendered is 130 feet in diameter, with a rampart 10 feet in height, en­ perilous along this coast on account of the rocks by which it circling the summit, and rises in seven steps; the whole is skirted. The present church is the third which has been area will hold about 2,000 persons and in medireval times .erected in this parish: the earliest was the church or exhibitions of miracle plays were held here; within the " oratory" of St. Piran, an early British saint, who came round is a trenched passage communicating with an ovoid­ from Ireland in the 5th century, having been consecrated by shaped recess. Near the manor house of Tywarnhayle is a St. Patrick for a mission to Cornwall: this building from small island, on which formerly stood a chapel, called its structural peculiarities has been considered by competent Engarder, the ruins of which were visible in 1733. Chyver­ authorities to date from the 6th century and is supposed to ton, the handsome modern seat of Mrs. Peter, is probably so have been erected over the tomb of St. Piran, and a headless called from an ancient and noble family now extinct. Vis­ skeleton, conjectured to be that of the saint, was found count :Fa]mouth D.L., J.P. the Rev. Sir Vyell Donnithorne buried beneath the altar, when the oratory was first dis­ Vyvyan bart. J.P. of Trelowarren, Mawgan-in-Meneage, covered and cleared from sand in 1835; its external dimen­ Francis Gilbert Enys esq. J.P., D.L. of Enys, St. Gluvias, stons were found to be, length 29 feet, breadth 16~ feet, and the Rev. St. Aubyn Hender Render Molesworth-St. height of gables, 19 feet: the masonry was of the rudest Aubyn M.A., J.P. of Clowance, , who are lords of kind, china clay being substituted for lime: the entrance the manor, William Paget Hoblyn esq. M.A., J.P. of The door was at the south side, with a semi-circular arch orna­ Fir Hill, St. Columb, and Mrs. Peter, are the chief land­ mented with a leopard's head carved on the key-stone and a owners. The soil varies greatly; the subsoil is shelf and human head on each side at the spring of the ar::h; these, spar. The chief crops produced are wheat, barley, oats and together with the corbels, are now in the Truro Museum; turnips. The area is II,340 acres, of which 385 are water; it is supposed that this oratory was first overwhelmed with rateable value, £6,587; the population in 1881 was 2,630 sand in the 9th century, when another church was erected for the ecclesiastical and 2,851 for the civil parish. on the further side of a stream which kept back the shifting Perran-porth, about 2 miles north-west from the sands; this was rebuilt in 1420, in a style of some magnifi­ church, is a village on the coast, much frequented in the ,cence, and was safe from the encroachments of the sand for summer months as a bathing-place, on account of its fine more than a century after: the course of the stream having sandy beach. Here is a chapel of ease, a building of stone been turned and its waters drawn off by the working of in the Early English style, erected and opened in 1872, and mines, the sand encroached still further and in 1803 it was consisting of chancel and nave. Pilchard fishing is carried resolved, after some discussion to remove and rebuild the on here. church; accordingly the tower, windows, arches, pillars and The following are small hamlets, with their distances from porch were removed to a part of the parish called LAM­ the church :-BOLINGEY, I mile north-west, with a Wes­ BOURNE, two miles distant, where now stands the present leyan chapel; CALLESTOCK, I mile south, with a Wes]eyan ,church of St. Piran, a cruciform building of stone in the chapel; PENHALLOW, three-quarters of a mile south, with a Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, Bible Christian chapel; PERRAN-COMBE, 2 north-west; south porch and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, RosE,2 north-north-east, with a Wesleyan chapel; VENTON­ containing 3 bells: in the north transept is a tablet of white GIMPS, I mile south-east, and GOONHAVERN, 2 mIles north­ marble and underneath is the following inscription-" The east, with a Bible Christian chapel. first stone of thIS parish church was laid in the year 18°4, Parish Clerk, Richard Trenerry, Cocks hill. after two former ones had been successively• overwhelmed with the sand of the desert in which they were imprudently POST, M. O. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.­ built;" in 1879 the church was reopened by the Right Rev. Perran-porth.-WIlliam Henry Tremewan, sub-postmas­ E. W. Benson D.D. then bishop of Truro and now archbishop ter. Letters arrive from Trum at 9.30 a.m.; dispatched of Canterbury, after having undergone restoration through­ at 3 p.m out: the galleries were removed, the church re-seated, the POST OFFICE, Callestock.-Mrs. Elizabeth Trelease,receiver. chancel raised and a carved oak pulpit and western screen Letters arrive from Truro at 9 a.m. ; dispatched at 3.30 constructed from the wood of the old benches: there are p.m. Perran-porth is the nearest money order & tele­ 400 sittings. On the site of I he second church stands a tall graph office. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid round-headed cross, 9 feet high and about two feet wide at POST OFFICE, Bolingey.-Miss Theresa Lanyon, receiver. the base. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1614; Letters arrive from Truro at 9.10 a.m. ; dispatched 3.10 marriages, 1603; burials, 1653, but the earlier portions con­ p.m. Perran-porth is the nearest money order & tele­ sist of imperfect fragments. The living is a vicarage, graph office average tithe rent-charge £385, net yearly value [,274, with INSURANCE AGENTS :- 2 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Dean and North British & Mercantile, W. H. Brewel", Goonhavern Chapter of Exeter, and held since 1884 by the Rev. Charles Royal Exchange, E. & J. J. Ho:lge, Bolingey mills