DIRECTORY.] CORNWALL. DEVORA:N". 87 ST. DENNIS, in Domesday Lan-Dines (the church of glebe, in the gift of John Bevill Fortescue esq. of of the hill), is a township and parish, bounded on the Boconnoc, and held since ·1904 by the Rev. · William north-west by the river Fa! and containing several small Bevan Monger L. Th. of St. David's College, Lampeter. villages and hamlets; it. is 3 miles east~south-east from There is a Free Methodist chapel, enlarged in 18~2 St. Columb Road station on the Newquay branch of at a cost. of £195, and a. Bible Christian chapel, to the Great Western railway, 5 miles north-by-west from which a new schoolroom was added in 1893 at a. cost Burngullow station on the Great Western railway and 7 of about £3oo. There are also Bible Christian chapels north-west from St. Austell, in the Mid division of the at Whitemoor and Enniscaven. A Wesleyan chapel was county, eastern division of the hundred of Powder, petty erected in 1905 at a cost of £450. The St: Dennis sessional division of Powder East, St. Austell union and Reading Ro-om and Recreation Society was established county court district, rural deanery of St. Austell, arch in 1892. The feast of St. Dennis is C?lebrated am1ually deaconry of Cornwall and diocese of Truro. St. Dennis on October gth, if it fall on a Sunday ; if not, on the Junction Mineral station is 1! miles west from St. Den Sunday following. In this and the adjoining parish of nis. The Fowey and Newquay lines of railway pass St. Stephen's are some of the largest ch1y works in through the parish. The church of St. Dennis, situated the county~ china-stone is also dug out in great on a conical hill, in the midst of an old entrenchment, abundance, and large quantities of china-clay and near the gor!'e moors, and protected on the north by porcelain-stone are dispatched by the Quay tramway. a plantation of firs, was rebuilt in 1847, and is a plain Viscount Falmouth K.C.V.O., C.B. who is lord of the but substantial building of native porcelain stone, rect manor, Messrs. Gill and Ivimey, of London, and the angular in plan, with a semi-hexagonal roof and an Hawkey trustees are the principal landowners. The soil embattled western tower. of two stages, with short pin is clay; subsoil, disintegrated granite. The land is nacles and containing 3 bells, of which the treble and principally pasturage. The area is 3,231 acres of land tenor are dated I65 I and 1738 ; the second bell is dated anti 9 of water; rateable value, £I0,667; the popu- I I67: near the south porch is an ancient granite cross, lation in 1901 was 1,632. · about six feet high: the porch, which has been . TREL.A. VOUR, a quarter of a mile south, and modernized, and the tower, are all that remain of the HENDR.A., half a mile south, are villages ; ENNIS old church, which consisted of two aisles and a north transept., and contained a reputed Saxon font ; this font, CAVEN is another village, 1 mile P.orth-east. after being lost for 50 years, was reclaimed about 1901 Parish Clerk, Thomas Bullock. ' from an adjoining parish: the arcade, removed to Nanpean, in the parish of St. Stephen's in Brannell, in Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B. & A. & I. Office.-· Charles Bullock, sub-postmaster. Le.tters through St. 1847, has been incorporated in a new church at that place: in 1899 the interior of the church was thoroughly Austell, arrive at 8.20 a.m. & 4·55 p.m.; dispatched renovated at a cost of £1,o6o, and now affords 240 sit at ILI5 a.m & 4 p.m. week days only tings: the churchyard was inclosM by a wall in 1826, its Public Elementary School (mixed), for 280 children; boundary having previously been marked by a trench average attendance, 260; Ernest Rigby, master. The only. The re.gister dates from ::.687. The living is a school was fully restored in 1905. A new school, for rectory, net yearly value £I52, with residence and 4 acres , 270 children, is now (1906) in course of erection ·
Monger Rev. William Bevan L.Th. Dyer Joseph, farmer, Enniscaven j Nance John, farmer, East park ' The Rectory Giles James, farmer & clerk to the North & Rose, china clay & china Pollard Rev. H. (Bible Christian) Parish Council, Trerice stone proprietors (works) COMMERCIAL. Giles Thomas, farmer, Trerice Osborn John, cowkeepr. Menna downs. (Marked t receive letters through Grigg Elizh.Ann (Mrs.),frmr.Penrose Pascoe Herbert, outfitter Nanpean, St. Austell.) Grigg .Tames, farmer, Menna Pedlar Almond, stone cutter (Marked* through Roche S.O.) Grigg William, farmer, Gathers Reading & Recreation Room (Richard. *Alien Samuel, farmer, Gathers Hold F. & Son, grocers Hooper, sec) Baglow Wm. cowkpr. Low. Bodella Hooper John, captain of clay works, Richards Elford, cycle agent Bennetts Wm.& Son,masons, Trelavour Carne C:Jttage Roberts Richard, farmer, Trerice . Best Montague, farmer, Hendra Hooper Richard, prov. dlr. TTelavonr Rundle William, cowkeeper, Carne Blewett William John, farmer, Carsella Hore Alfred Best, grocer, Trelavour Stephens Fred, farmer, Hendra lane Broad Richard, temperance hotel, & Kellaway Millwood, saddler Strongman Alfred IErnest, boot makr. confectioner Kellow William, butcher Trelavour Brokenshire James, farmer, New moor Kent Benjamin, farme-r, Menna Thomas Ada (Mrs.), Commercial inn Bullock Thomas, tailor Kent Daniel, carpenter & c
DEVORAN is a village and ecclesiastical parish, this· place is chiefly owing to the railway, the terminus of formed January 17, 1873, out of the civil parish of St. which is close to the harbour; there are also wharves for Feock, and is on Restronguet Creek, an inlet of Falmouth the shipping of copper ores from the great mining district Harbour, r mile east from Perranwell station on the of Gwennap, and for the importation of coal for the supply Falmouth branch of the Great Western railway, 7 north of the works; but this being a mineral line only, pas-· from Falmouth and 4~ south from Truro, in the Truro sengers are not conveyed on it. The church of St. John division of the county, hundred of West Powder, petty is a building of stone, in the Early English style, erected sessional division of Powder West, Truro union and county in I855-6, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and court district, rural deanery of Powder, archdeaconry of a tower with spire, containing one bell: there is a brass Cornwall and diocese of Truro. From about 1820 until in the chancel to John Phillpotts esq. of Porthgwidden, · 1839 this place was the site of an extensiYe tin mine; in this parish, for many years M.P. for the city of Glouces-• but the proprietors then shut up the works, and the ter, and Sarah, his wife, both of whom died in 1849; mouth or opening to the mine has been almost completely and one to Ulysses Theophilus Hughes esq. of Graves-· filled up by sand and earth washed up by the tide; on end, in the county of Glamorgan, d. 1809, and Rachel the site of the mine called "Carnon Stream Works ,. is Penelope, his wife, d. I826, whose only surviving now the harbour or creek of Devoran, the conservators children. the Rev. Thomas Phillpotts :M.A. formerly of which are the Redruth and Chace,vater Railway Corn- vicar of Feock, and Mary Anna Penelope, his wife, pany, first constituted by Act of Parliament in 1823 and erected this chancel to their memory A. D. z!ls6: five reorganized by an amended Act in 1858: the prosperity of 1 windows in the chancel are stained and the remainder