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332 TUDY. CORN\VALL. (KELLY's: COMMERCIAL • Cottell William, farmer, Redvile :\!orris Thomas, shoe maker .Axford & Son, farmer, Trenarlett Elford Rd. Kingdon, yeoman, Penvose Pethick John, farmer, Tregarrick Bastard John, farmer & breeder of Eyre Richard, carpenter, Polrood Purser Jn.J., M.B., B.Ch. Dub. surgiJ prize pigs (long black) & Dartmoor Ford Stephen, farmer, Penhale RichardsTheMisses, farmers, Tamsquite sheep, Tinten Manor farm Hewett Jn. bookbinder, ironmongr. &c Rowe William, shoe maker Button John, farmer, Polshea Hill William, farmer, Kelly green Stephens George, farmer, Tremeer Button Samuel Thomas, butcher Hooper J ames, carpenter Stephens Nathaniel,farmer & prize pig Button Wm. Henry, farmer,Bodriggan Knight Joseph, shoe maker breeder (large black breed), Hen Cole William Robert Newton M.D., Langford John, farmer, Trewen dra parks M.Ch. surgeon, & medical officer & Lean James, farmer, ·Coldsent Thomas William James, wheelwright,. public vaccinator, No. 7 district, LobbPhillippa(Mrs. ),CornishArms P .B carpenter, joiner & undertaker,. Bodmin union :Masters Joseph, farmer, Leskeel Water lane Collins John, gardener May Matthw. draper & grcr. Post off Williams William, farmer Cornish Hy. shopkeeper & blacksmith Mitchell Alfred, farmer, Tresquare Worth .Ann (Mrs.), baker Cottell Henry, farmer, Coldsent Mitchell Anthony, farmer, Lanterrick Worth William Henry, mason TYWARDREATH is a parish and pretty little rown, for a nurse: there are now (1897) four inmates, each re. 4 miles south from Lostwithiel, and a half mile east from ceiving 3s. 6d. weekly. The Benedictine Priory of St. Par .station on the Great Western railway, in the South Andrew, founded in this place by A. Cardyngham, temp. Eastern division of the oounty, west division of the hun William I. stood in a valley tD the south of the church ; it dred of Powder, petty sessional division of Powder Tyward was a cell to the monastery of St. Sergius at Angers, and reath, St. Austell union and county court district, rural at the time of its dissolution had seven monks and re. deanery of St . .Austell, archdeaconry of Cornwall and dio venues valued at £123. The tombstone of the last prio:r, eese of Truro. There are Water Works at Newhouse in Thomas Collyns, is in the transept of the church ; hEJ this parish, constructed about 1873 to supply the houses died 1534. On August 31, 1644, a severe skirmish took at Par Green and the shipping port of Par. The village and place in this parish between the Royalist forces, com. parish is supplied with water from works belonging to the manded by the King and Sir Richard Grenville, and the St. .Austell Rural District Council. The church of St. troops of the Parliament, in which the latter were com .Andrew, standing near the site of, and formerly con pelled to surrender. .At Tregaminion there remains the nected with, the ancient Benedictine priory of St. Andrew, round head of an ancient cross, with a fragment of the is a fine edifice of stone, and was till lately one of the oldest shaft, fixed in a low base; and at Menabilly, a similar in this part of Cornwall, having been built in 1347; but cross head, on a large circular base; another ancient cros~ was almost entirely rebuilt, with the exception of the now standing at Tregaminion, was brought from Milltown, tower, in 188o, at a cost of £4,ooo, under the direction Lanlivery. On the road from Menabilly to Polmear, half. of Mr. Richard Coad, architect, of London, when it was way down a steep and dangerous- hill, a cross has been re-seated in pine and oak and new roofed, an organ erected by Jonathan Rashleigh esq. to commemorate his chamber built, and an organ and screens erected : the marvellous escape in 1845, when his horses having bolted original altar slab, incised with five crosses, was dis down the hill were stopped at this spot. Menabilly, the covered and replaced; the church now consists of chancel, seat of Jonathan Rashleigh esq. B..A., D.L., J.P. is an nave, south aisle, with an arcade of .seven arches sup enlarged building of stone, standing on an eminence near ported by massive granite pil:ars, north transept, south the sea, and surrounded by park lands, woods and pleasure porch, and an embattled western tower containing 6 beas, grounds of about 250 acres in extent, and commands an and a clock, placed in the tower in 1887 at a cost of extensive view over the British Channel; in the ground £160: a reredos was erooted in r88g, at a cost of £280, stands a grotto, the building of which was commenced by and in 1892 the bells were rehung and the tower re the late Philip Rashleigh esq. of Menabilly, more than novated, at an expense of £7o: the Rashleigh chapel, at two centuries ago. Trenython, the property and resi the east end of the south aisle and separated therefrom dence of the Right Rev. John Gott D.D. Bishop of Truro, by carved oak parclose screens, has on the bench ends the is a well-built man;:ion, about half a mile east of the arms of the family from 1388; the carved work in this town, on an eminence, and commanding splendid views chapel and throughout the church is by Harry Hems, of of the surrounding scenery. Kilmarth, the seat of Evelyn Exeter: there are two piscinre and memorials to Thomas William Rashleigh esq. J.P. about 1! miles south or Collins, last prior of St. An drew's Priory, ob. 15 39; Wit:iam Tywardreath, is a building of stone, in the Queen .Anne Baker, of Kilmarth, 1636; tD the Rashleigh family, and style, standing on an elevated site and affording fine views others: the church affords 400 sittings: in 1884 an ad of the Channel. Jonathan Rashleigh esq. who is lord of the dition was made to the churchyard. The register dates manor, John Bevill Fortescue esq. of Boconnoc, and .Arthur from the year 1642. The living is a vicarage, with the Francis Basset esq. Tehidy, are the principal landowners. chapelry of Tregaminion annexed, joint net yearly value The soil is elayey ; subsoil, slate. The chief crops are £240, with 2 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of oats, wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 3,252 acres; Jonathan Rashleigh esq. and held smee 1895 by the Rev. rateable value, £8,235; the population in 1891 was 2,097· Septimus Valentine Baker M.A. of Jesns College, Cam Parish Clerk, Robert Rundell. bridge, who had been curate in charge since 1876. The Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Office. chapel of ease at Tregaminion, 2 miles south-by-east, was Thomas Rundell, sub-postmaster. Letters from Par built and endowed by William Rashleigh esq. in 1815, Station R.S.O. arrive at 7 a.m. & 1.45 & 7.40 p.m.; and is an edifice of stone consisting of chancel, nave and sundays 7 a.m.; dispatched at II.5o a.m. & 5·55 & 10 south porch, with sittings for 150 persons. There is a p.m. ; sundays 5·55 p.m. Par station is the nearest tele- Church Mission Room at Porcupine, Highway. The Wes graph office leyan chapel, erected in 1828, is a large building of stone, Wall Letter Boxes. seating about 400 persons. There is also a small Wesleyan chapel at Polkerris. The Bible Christian chapel, built in Penellick, cleared at 8.20 a.m. & 5.30 p.m. week days only 1858, will seat about 300 persons, and there is another Polkerris, cleared at 7·5 a.m. & 4·35 p.m at Highway, erected in 1841, and rebuilt in 1890. The Polmear, cleared at 9· xo a.m. & 5·5.S p.m Town Hall, erected in 1862, and the County Police Station, Tywardreath (West), cleared at 4·55 & 11.55 a.m. & 6.5 built in 186o, are both of stone. .A Freemasons' hall was p.m erected in 1894-g5. There is a subscription Reading Room, Tywardreath (~orth), cleared at 4.40 & II.45 a.m. & 5·35 with a billiard room attached, and supported by private p.m members. The Working Men's Institute contains reading OOUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR Ti: WARDREATR and recreation rooms and has a library of over xoo volumes. DIVISION OF EAST POWDE-R HUND!RED. The Rural Gardening Society here, established in 1830, is the oldest of the kind in Cornwall, and has now held 67 Robartes Lord M . .A., D.D. Lanhydrock, Bodmin,chairman annual shows. Here are the head quarters of the Cornish Carlyon George Richard Gwavas esq. B.A., D.L. Tr~ Tent Company Limited, and there is also a mineral water grehan, Par Station R.S.O factory. In this parish are the late Fowey Consols cele Purcell Rev. Handfield Noel M . .A. Vicarage, Fowey brated copper mine, which paid about {,2oo,ooo profit; Rashleigh Col. Sir Colman Battie D.L. Prideaux, St also the South Fowey Consols copper mine, not at present Blazey, Par Station R.S.O working; and the (New) Fowey Consols tin mine. There Rashleigh Evelyn William esq. B . .A. Kilmarth, Tyward is a cattle fair on the 10th June; and the parish feast on reath, Par Station R.S.O St. .A.ndrew's day. At Polkerris, a small place on the Rashleigh Jonathan esq. B . .A., D.L. Menabilly, Par Sta. coast in this parish, about 2 miles south, is a Royal tion R.S.O National Lifeboat station, established in 1859· A regatta Santo John esq. Hellier cottage, Lostwithiel is held annually, generally at the latter end af August, Treffry Charles Ebenezer esq. Place, Fowey There are Almshouses for seven poor widows at Polmear, Clerk to the Magistrates, Borlase Childs, Liskeard four of which were erected by the late William Rashleigh Pettv Sessions are held at the Town Hall the 4th wed esq.