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DIRECTORY.] CORNWALL. GERRANS. 881 GERMOE is a township, parish and village, 6 miles living is a vicarage, consolidated with that of Breage, north-west from Helston and 4 east from Marazion road vicarial tithe rent-charge (Germoe) £105, joint gross yearly station on the West Cornwall (Great Western) railway, in the value £gro with residence, in the gift of the Crown and held Western division of the county, hundred of Kerrier, Helston by the Rev. Edward Morris Pridmore :r.I.A. of Clare College, union and county court district, Kerrier rural deanery, Cambridge, who resides at Breage vicarage; the Rev. Ben Cornwall archdeaconry, and Truro diocese, situatecl on the jamin Dexter is curate in charge. There is a chapel for high road from Helston to Penzance. The church of St. Wesleyans at Balwest and another on Keneggie common. Germoe is an old stone building in the Perpendicular style, Foote's charity provides £2 xos. for the school and £2 ros. with portions of Transition, Norman and Early English for the poor: £3 from an unknown donor is for poor date, and consists of chancel, nave of four bays, transepts, widows. The Great Work Consols mines are in this parish. south porch and an embattled tower with crocketed pin- Tresowes & Boscreege are villages in this parish. The naclas, containing 3 bells, all dated 1753: the font, of native Duke of Leeds, the Rev. St. Aubyn Bender Molesworth-St. elvan, is curious from its misshapen form and rude sculp- Aubyn M.A. and William Buller esq. are lords of the manor tures: the bowl of another and much superior font also and chief landowners. The soil is loamy ; the subsoil is remains: there are no inscriptions in the church: in the granite. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, turnips north-east corner of the churchyard is a stone seat, called and brocoli. The acreage is 1,287 acres; rateable value, the chair of St. Germoe, or throne of King Germocus: the £1,713; and the population in 1871 was 953 and 588 in 1881. structure measures, internally, about 6 by 3 feet, and the Letters through Marazion R.S.O. (the nearest money order front consists of two pointed arches, each 6 feet in height, & telegraph office) arrive at 11.30 a.m.; dispatched at on three circular columns; at the back is a seat divided into 1.15 p.m three compartments, the centre one enclosing the carved A Sunday School was erected in 1878, at a cost of £2oo, for head of a figure in granite, surmounted by a Saxon crown; xoo scholars beneath is supposed to be a burial vault: the church plate A School Board of 5 members was formed in 1871; J. B. bears the date 1732 and was presented by Francis, second Nicholas, Breage, clerk to the board Earl of Godolphin, who then occupied Godolphin manor in Board School (mixed), erected in 1877 for x8o children; the parish adjoining, and died in 1766: there are 260 sit- average attendance, go; Joseph Chance, master.; Miss tings, all free. The register dates from the year x682. The Louisa M. Carter, mistress COMMERCIAl.. Lemon James Plomer, farmer Rowe Philip, farmer Dexter Rev. Benjamin, Parsonage Michell James, Dolphin inn Thomas William, boot & shoe maker & Eustice Paul, carpenter New Great Works Copper 9' Tin Mines shopkeeper Eustice William, shopkeeper (Thomas Arnall, manager & purser) Tresowes China Clay Go. Lirn. (William Great Work Tin o/ Copper Mines (Great Nicholls Williarn, shopkeeper & farmer Argall, purser; Jonathan Stephens, Work Mining Go.) (William Teag-ue, Paull Philip, bus proprietor manager) manager; J. Williams, chief agent) Paull Martha (Mrs.), shopkeeper, & Wheal Grey Clay o/ Brick Works (Wm. Hoskin William, smith & farrier post office Argall, manager & purser ; J ames .Jacka James, farmer Prout George, farmer Hooper, agent) Keskeys J ames, farmer Richards John, farmer Williams J ames, farmer Laity William, farmer Richards Thomas, shoe maker I GERRANS, or St. GERRANS, is so called from a king, held since x88o by the Rev. John Arundell Leakey M.A. of Gerennius, who, before the year 596, came from Wales, Queen's College, Oxford. Here are Bible Christian and driven thence by the Saxons, and being well received by the Wesleyan chapels. Henry Harris esq. formerly of Ros people in Cornwall, fixed up0n a place then called Curgurrell, teage, by will dated nth July, bequeathed a charity of the where he is said to have built a castle and a kinglyresidence annual value of £g 2s. 6d. for distribution, and in 1867 with numerous fortifications; after living there some years Captain Charles Baker R.N. gave £200 stock for the poor of he appointed his son his successor, and dying in the year the parish and for the repair of the family vault. On the Cur- 596 was buried near that spot; some time after his son, in gurrell estate is a round earthwork, called "Din-gerin," reverence to his father's remains, had them removed to and and in the side of a cliff near Creek Stephen is a subter deposited in a place called Carrte Beacon-an immense ele- ranean passage, sometimes called "The Mermaids' Hole." vation about two miles from Curgurrell-said to be, within Two fairs are held yearly, at Trewithian in Gerrans, in May a few feet, the same height as St. Paul's, in London ; according and October, for cattle. Rosteage (the fair vale) was held to certain records, discovered by the Rev. J. Adams, a gold by the Kempe family from 1619 to 1780. Trewince is the boat with silver oars,and an urn were buried with his remains: property of the trustees of the late Richard .Spry esq. and is in Novemebr, 1855, a fruitless search was made for the sup- the residence of Thomas Henry Vyvyan esq.; the mansion, posed relics, but the results attained evidently showed that a good building of freestone, was erected in 1750. The it had been a place of burial long ages ago. Gerrans is a Ecclesiastical Commissioners (Rev Henry B. Bullocke M.A. parish about 6 miles south-west from Tregony, 9 south from vicar of Clyst Honiton, lessee) and Francis Gilbert Enys Truro, 4 north from St. Mawes and 12 from Grampound esq. J.P., D.L. are lords of the manor. The chief landowners road station on the Cornwall (Great Western) railway, in are the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, F. G. Enys esq. H.R.H. the Western division of the county, west division of Powder the Duke of Cornwall and J. G. Cregoe esq. The soil is hundred, Truro union and county court district, rural light, shallow and fine earth; subsoil, killas with elvan deanery of Powder, archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of dykes. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, turnips and Truro ; it adjoins the parish of St.Anthony-in-Roseland and is grass. The area is 2,870 acres, of which 215 are water; bounded on the east by the English Channel and on the west rateable value, £4.364; and the population in 1881 was 892. by a creek of St. Mawes harbour. The first church is sup- Sexton, Thomas Sye. posed to have been built previous to the year 590, by order Letters through Grampound Road. Portscatho is the nearest of Gerennius, a king of Cornwall, subsequently canonized, money order & telegraph office yet history says that, in the year 1334, Gerrans was only a INSURANCE AGENT.-Sun Fire, W. H. Webb chapel dependent on St. Anthony, for in a deed of confirma- National School (mixed), built in x863, for 140 children; tion of churches and chapels to Plympton Priory, by Bishop average attendance, 129; Benjamin Linzell, master Grandison, 1334, "the prior and convent" are said "to A Sunday School is held at the schoolroom hold in possession the church of St. Antoninus" and "the Trewithian and Porthscatho (the boat-pool) are chapel of Gerrands dependent upon it." The church of St. villages; the latter, the largest in the parish, is pleasantly Gerendus, built in the year 1262, in the Early Eng}ish style, situated at the southern extremity of Gerrans bay, and and rebuilt in the years 1849 and 1850, consists of chancel about half a mile below the church. The pilchard and with aisle and arcade of two bays, nave of five bays, south mackerel fishery is carried on to a small extent here, and it aisle ,north transept, south porch and an embattled western is frequented as a watering place in the summer season. tower with spire,erected in 1636,and containing 4 bells, two of There is a Congregational chapel at Porthscatho; also a which are dated 1830 and 1753: there is a good modem reading room, supported by subscription. chancel screen, piscina. aumbry and several stained win dows: in the aisle is a fine monument of marble to Edward PosT, MoNEY 0RDl!:R & TELEGRAPH OFFICE & Savings Bank, Hobbs, of Tregassa, gent. IJI8: the churchyard contains a Porthscatho.-Stephen J ohns, postmaster. Letters through fine old granite cross, 7 feet high and 2 wide. The register Grampound Road arrive at 9.40 a.m. ; dispatched at 2.40 of baptisms and marriages dates from the year 1538; p.m. ; sundays at 9.40 a. m burials, 1539. The living is a rectory, endowed in 1261 by PosT OFFICE, Trewithian.-William Snell, postmaster. Bishop Bronescombe, lord of the manor, yearly value from Letters through Grampound Road arrive at 8.50 a.m. ; tithe rent-charge £3o6 13s. net income £280 with residence dispatched at 3.20 p.m.; sundays, 3.20 p.m. Porthscatho and 1 ~ acres of glebe, in the gift of the bishop of Truro, and is the nearest money order & telegraph office • 56 .