• 1244 PERR.AN-UTBNOE. . (KELLY'S Castle, the seat of Mrs. Lanyon, was built in 1772, by PosT OFFICE, Church Town.-Thomas Laity, sub-post­ William Stackhouse esq. and is a fine square castellated master. Letters through R.S.O. arrive at 9.30 mansion. with granite facings, delightfully situated on an a.m.; box cleared at 2.50 p.m. Goldsithney is the eminence near Cuddan Poin~, between Trevean and Prussia nearest money order & Marazion the nearest telegraph Coves, and is approached by a drive of a quarter of a mile in office. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid length from the hamlet of Trevean. Sir Waiter John PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity& Insurance Office, Gold­ Trevelyan hart. J.P. of Nettlecombe, Taunton, is lord of the sithney.-Miss Catherine Powning Rowe,sub-postmistress. manor and chief landowner. The soil1s loamy; the subsoil Letters through Maraziou R.S.O; which is the nearest tele­ is killas. The chief crops are wheat, potatoes and broccoli. graph office, arrive at 9.30 a. m.; box cleared at 2.55 p.m The area is r,r82 acres, 55 of which are water; rateable .A School Board of 5 members was formed Jan. 18, 1875; value, £2,658 ; the population in 1891 was 819. Henry Williams, clerk to the board; Edward White, Pen­ GOLDS11'HNEY, I mile north-by-west, and TREVEAN, I mile dean, , attendance officer east, are hamlets. Board School, built in 1879, for 150 children ; average at- Sexton, Henry Sedgman. tendance, 71; Miss Bessie Thomas, mistress Perran-Uthnoe. Laity William, farmer, Church town Gilbert Charlotte (Mrs.), shopkeeper Astley Rev. Richard B.A. Rectory Pearce Thomas, farmer, Trebarvah Gundry Elizabeth (l\Iiss), shopkeeper Lanyon Mrs . .Acton castle RalphWm.boot &shoe ma.Church town Hosking James Henry, general mercht Prisk John, Trevelyan cottage Richards Robert, farmer, road Laity John, farmer & landowner Richards Robt. mine agt. Perrandowns lVIayne Ernest Henry Vincent, private COMMERCIAL. • Rowe John, mining agent, Church town school, Sycamore house Berryman Jn. & Wm. farmrs. Acton fro Saundry James, shoe ma. Perrandowns Mills William (Mrs.), grocer Battens James, apartments,Church twn SemmensSaml. Victoria inn, Church twn Nicholas Thomas, shoe maker Body James, mine agent,Perran downs Thomas Stephen, farmer Oats Martin, wheelwright Donald Thomas, shopkeeper,Helston rd Vellanoweth Wm. farmer, Church twn Pascoe Annie (Mrs.), shopkeeper Gilbart William, farmer, Trembarvah Williams Henry, assistant overseer, Rich Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Gilbert Elizh. & Son, farmers,Chureh tn clerk to the school board & surveyor Richards Sarah (Miss), shopkeeper Gundry 'fhos. markt.gardnr.Church tn to the district highway Rowe Jane Martin & Sons, farmers Harvey John Blight, market gardener board, Ednovean Rowe Catherine Powning (Miss), sta- HitchenR Thomas, shopkpr. Helston rd Williams Wm. John, farmer, Helston rd tioner, Post office Hocking William, farmer, Chiverton S!tmpson William, shop"i{eeper James Sarah .Ann (Mrs.), dress maker, Goldsithney. Saundry Edwin, carpenter Church town Brealy Rev. Robert Stafford [Wesleyan] Thomas Bridget (Mrs.), shopkeeper Kitto William,market gardnr.Ednovean Johns Samuel Martin Ven·ant James, Trevelyan Arms P.H Laity Jas. & Alfd. farmrs. Church twn Laity John Wtlliams & Barker, coal merchants Laity Jas. & John, farmrs. Church twn Wighton William 'Williams John, blacksmith Laity Jas. jun. market gardener, To wan COMMERCIAL. Wills Richard, Crown hotel Laity Thomas, shopkeeper, Post office, Crebo Richard, mason Wren l\1innie (Miss), grocer Church town Dawe Ernest, cab proprietor PERRAN-ZABULOE, or St. PIRAN-IN-THE-SANDS, is Canterbury, after havingnndergonerestoration throughout; a large township and parish, on the sea coast and on tbe road the galleries were removed, the church reseated, the chan­ from Trhro to Perran-porth and from to St. eel raised and a carved oak pulpit and western screen con­ Columb, and is 5 miles north-north-east from Chace water structed from the wood of the old benches: there are 400 station on the West Cornwall section of the Great Western sittings. On the site of the second church stands a tall, railway, 7 north-west from and 8 north-east from round-headed cross, 9 feet high and about two feet wide Redruth, in the Truro division of the county, hundred of at the base. The register of baptisms dates from the year Pyder, petty sessional division of Powder West, Truro union 1614; marriages, 1603; burials, 1653, but the earlier par­ and county court district, rural deanery of Powder, arch- tions consist of imperfect fragments. The living is a vicar­ deaconry of Cornwall and . The parish is age, average tithe rent-charge £293, net yearly value £234, greatly overblown -uitll sea sand and in the adjoining hills with 2 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Dean and are rabbit warrens. Navigation is rendered perilous along ChapLer of Truro, and held since 1884 by the Rev. Charles this coast on account of the rocks by which it is skirted. Edwin Meeres B.A. of St. Mary Hall, Oxford. .A new vicar­ The present church is the third which has been erected in age house was erected in March, 1888. The inhabitants of this parish : the earliest was the church or " oratory" of this parish are chiefly employed in mining and agriculture. St. Piran, an early British saint, who came from Ireland in Cleather's charity of £2 yearly is distributed; £1 being for the 5th century, having been consecrated by St. Patrick for poor widows and£ I for a sermon. St. Piran's Well, a small a mission to Cornwall; this building from its structural baptistery, was distant half a mile north-east from the peculiarities has been considered by competent authorities church and inclosed with granite walls; the remains of the to date from the 6th century and is supposed to have been stone work have been removed to Chyverton, in this parish. erected over the tomb of St. Piran, and a headless skeleton, North of the site of the well is St. l'iran's round, a turfed conjectured to be that of the saint, was found buried beneath amphitheatre and one of the most interesting specimens of the altar, when the oratory was first discovered and cleared the old open-air Cornish theatre now remaining; it is 130 from sand in 1835; its external dimensions were found to feet in diameter, with a rampart 10 feet in height, encircling be, length 29 feet, breadth r6~ feet, height of gables, 19 the summit, and rises in seven steps; the whole area will feet ; the masonry was of the rudest kind, chma clay being hold about 2,000 persons and in medireval times exhibitions substituted for lime; the entrance door was at the south of miracle plays were held here; within the round is a side, \\ith a semicircular arch ornamented with a leopard's trenched passage, communicating with an ovoid-shaped head carved on the key-stone and a human head on each side recess. Near the manor house of Tywarnhayle is a small at the spring of the arch ; these, together with the corbels, island, on which formerly stood a chapel, called Engarder, are now in the Truro 1\fuseum : it is supposed that this the ruins of which were visible in 1733. Chyverton, the oratory was first overwhelmed with sand in the gth century, handsome modern seat of Mrs. Peter, is probably so called when another church was erected, on the further side of from an ancient and noble family now extinct. Viscount a stream which kept back the shifting sands; this was Falmouth D.L., J.P. the Rev·. Sir Vyell Donnithorne Vyvyan rebuilt in 1420, in a style of some magnificence, and was bart. J.P. of Trelowarren, l\Iawgan-in-Meneage, Francis safe from the encroachments of the sand for more than Gilbert Enys esq. D.L., J.P. of Enys, St. Gluvias, and the a century after: the course of the stream having been turned Rev. St. Aubyn Render :Molesworth-St. .Aubyn M. A., and its waters drawn off by the working of mines, the sand J. P. of Clowance, Crowan, who are lords of the manor, encroached still further and in 1803 it was resolved, after William Paget Hoblyn esq. M.A., J.P. of The Fir Hill, St. some discussion, to remove and rebuild the church; accord- Columb, John Charles Williams esq. M.P. of Caerhayes ingly the tower, windows, arches, pillars and porch were Castle, and Mrs. Peter are the chief landowners. The soil removed to a part of the parish called LAMBOURNE,two miles varies greatly ; the subsoil is shelf and spar. The chief distant, where now stands the present church of St. Piran, crops produced are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The a cruciform building of stone in the Perpendicular style, area is u,340 acres, of which 385 are water; rateable value, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and an £7,006 ; Lhe population in r8gr was 2,167 for the ecclesias­ embattled western tower with pinnacles containing 3 bells: tical and 2,374 for the civil parish. in the north transept is a tablet of white marble and underneath is the following inscription-" The first stone of Perran-porth, about 2 miles north-west from the this parish church was laid in the year 18041 after two church, is a village on the coast., much frequented in the former ones had been successively overwhelmed with ~the summer months as a bathing-place, on account of its sand of the desert in which they were imprudently built;" fine sandy beach. The chapel of ease here, a building of in 18.79 the church was re-opened by the Right Rev. E. W. stone in the Early English style, was erected and opened in .Benson n.D. then Bishop of Truro and now .Archbishop of 1872, and consists of chancel and nave. There is also a