Cornwall. [Kelly'8

422 ST. ¥I~V.ER. CORNWALL. [KELLY'8 _:priests' dool"Way: the font, octagonal in form, is Per parish of St. ~rinver in 1867, is a memorial to Anne and pendicular: there is an elaborate monument with kneel LU!::y Sandy~. and on the south gable of the tower is a. ing efll6"Y in marble, erected by Thomas Darell esq. to crJss erected by Mary Prideaux-Brune, of Prideaux Place, John Roe, of Trewornan, ob. 6 March, 1657, and others Padstow, anf!l commemorating the same persons: there io Thomas Darell esq. ob. 3 Jan. 1697; Thomas Hamet, is a monument to William Rounsevall gent. 1659, and <)b. Dec. 1014: in the north chapel are portions of an Jane, his wife, 1679; opposite the porch is the round head altar-tomb of slate, consisting of the front, two ends of an ancient granite cross on a dwarf shaft: the church and upper slab; the front exhibits, in low relief, kneel was.well restored in r865-7, at a cost of £514: the church in" p:ffiCTies of a man and woman, with shield;; of arms plate includes a chalice with paten-cover bearing the date ot Sto:e and Harris'; the ends bear other ~hields of 1711, and the word "Perdille" (Porthilly), and a paten the same arms, quartering Whitelinge; on the upper of 1J.lO and flagon of 1792, both given by the Rev. William ~lab is an inscription to Thomas Stone, gent. ob. 28 Sanlys M.A. vicar: the burial ground was enlarged about .July, r6o4, and Elizabeth, hi.s wife, ob. r636; there is 1878, and protected by a sea wall; it contains memorials also a brass with the effigy of a man in civilian costume to the Keut, Mably, Pro:ffit and other families. There is to Roger Opy, ob. 13 Jan. 1517 and Elizabeth (Carminow), a Wesleyan chapel near Rock, built about r842, and seat bis wife; a scroll with legend proceeds from the mouth ing 132 persons, and a schoolroom was added in r8g6; a. .()f the figure, and round the margin of the brass is a Bible Christian chapel at Trevanger, erected in 1872, with Latin inscription: in the south aisle is a memorial with roo sitting;;; and! a Free )lethodi~t chapel at Tredis.sick, arms to John Silly of Trevelver, in this parish, ob. II erected in r8r5 as a Wesleyan chaiJel, and enlarged in -A.pril, r672, erected by Jane (Cotton), his widow; there 1835; it wa~ entirely rebuilt in 1874, and has 250 sittings; js another to John Smith of ::\ieasmere, ob. 17 Dec. 1662, there was formerly near Treglines a Friends' meeting and a monument to the Rev. '\V. 'Sandys M.A. vicar, d. house with a burial ground attached; the latter, partially rr Nov. r8r6, and Mary (Praed), his wife: the east win inclos ~J bv a wall, remains, but the chapel has dis dow is a memorial to Mrs . .Ann Sandys and her daughter appeared. -The charities, left by John Randall of St. Jmt Lucy, d. (both) March r, 1867, and there are others to in 1727, Mrs. Sarah Darell in 1760, and Helen Proffit, in William Sandys Sandys esq. d. 1846 and Mary Anne 1780, .amount to £r6 9s. 2d. yearly; of this sum about Sandys, his sister, d. 1849, to the late Mrs. Potter, of £-ro is distributed to poor persons not in receipt of paro Wadebridge, erected bv her son, Samuel S. Potte.r, and chial relief, £5 in coals, £ r to poor widows and orphan,, the Rev. Septimus Rolleston, for twenty years v1car of and ros. to the vicar for a sermon. In that part of St. the parish : the chureh plate includes a silver gilt chalice Minver called "The Lowlands" is Jesus' well, a rectangu anri cover, with the hall marks of 1618-g, a flagon of lar structure with a truncated gable roof and an arched 1764, presented by ::\L Webber of St. Kew, a plate pre entrance; at the back of the well is a niche, in which a. .sented in 1791 by \\'illiam Sandys, and a brazen alms crucifix may have been placed. The fine spring which dish of German make ; the church was restored and the formerly ro!>e here ha.s now been intercepted, and thP> tower and spire rebuilt in 1873-4 under the direction of chapel which stood near the well, and was extant in the :-.rr. J. P. St . .Aubvn, architect, at a cost of about £3,370: early part of the last century, has now disappeared; it there are 300 ~itt'ings. The churchyard was enlarged on was surrounded by a burial !;round, the remains found the north side in r84o; a small cross, formerly on the in which 'have been removed to the churchvard. At the ·farm of Trecrlines, aml about 3 feet high, was removed • • ~ . village of Rock is a ferry across the Camel to Padstow, for :md set up here in 1879. The register of baptisms and foot passengers only, and which from the earliest records burials dates from the year 1558; marriages, I559; the has belonged to the manor of Penmayne: it is now let on list of burials includes the names of persons interred on a yearly lease, at a rent of £r. Ro.serrow, now a fann the Quaker burial grow1d near Treglines from r695 to house, was anciently the residence of a family of that 1742. The living is a. vicarage,_ net yearly _income {;220, name, and in the early part of the r6th century of the :including 45 acres of glebe, w1th house, m the g1ft of Penkevill~; it afterwards belonged to the Carews, but i~ Edward Charles Perceva.l. Sanford, of St. Minver Hou.se, now the property of Col. Tremayne of Carclew; portions and held since r8gr by the Rev. Charles Henry Chase of t-he olJ house, including a great fireplace and chimney ~I. A. of Corpus 1Christi College, Cambridge. There and the oaken ceiling of the hall, remain. Cant, also a are tw<Y ancient chapels of ease in this parish, both near farm home, gave its name in the reign of Edward I. to the estuary of the Camel, and opposite Padstow-St. t.,he family of de Cant, or Kant, and was subsequently Enodoc and St. Michael, or Porthilly, each about 2! miles held by the Cheynduit <md Carminow familie~, and others, from the parish church; the former, surrounded w~th and in r8rg, being then held by Hnmphry Pndeaux esq. 1t drifts of sand, which sometimes have been known to nse was described as a manor; Portbilly comprises the two es as high as the roof, is an edifice of stone, originally cruci tates of Porthilly Eglos and Porthilly Greys, and contains form, in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, con remains of ancient buildings; Trevelver, a place mentioned sisting of chancel, nave, south aisle of three bays, ex as early as 1302, is now a farm and mill; portions of the tending along the whole of the chancel, and incorporating old house, with scrme Tilullioned windows, still exist, and the former south transept, north transept, south porch in one of the rooms, which is panelled, is a painting of the and a tower of two stages at the north end of the north original mansion, and round the cornice of the apartment, transept, with nctagonal broach spire, and containing one a kind of panoramic representation of the neighbourhood. bell, recovered from the wreck of the "Immacolata," of The Institute, built in r8g4, by general subscriptions, has 'Barletta, a seaport of South Italy, which was lost on the a library ancl an attached recreation ground. H.R.H. the rocks at Greenway, Sept. 27, 1875: the lower portion of Duke of Cornwall and York K. G. is lord of the manor of the Perpendicular chancel screen remains, and has been Penmayne. The principal landowners are Robert Darell re5tored ond redecorated in colour and gold ; on the south Smythe Stepheru! esq. of Trewornan, 'Wadebridge, lord -side of the chancel is a piscina, and on tlie north an aum of the manor of Trewornan, John Bevill Fortescue esq. bry, now a credence; a circular bowl of Catacluse stone, of Boconnoc, Viscount Clifden, Col. Arthur Tremayne, of found· in tl.le tower, ·and probably a stoup, is used as an Carclew, Perranarworthal, John Claude Lewi:.; Tremayn~ :tlms box: there is a Norman font, and one window is esq. of Heligan, St. Austell, Edward Charles Perceval "!>tain'*: thl! ancient silver chalice with cover, belonging to Sanford esq. and Miss Arundell Yeo, of Fremington, this chapel, and dating from the 16th century, is now in North Devon. The soil is sandy; subsoil, rock. The the possessii:m of Mr. John Mably, farmer, of Trebothe chief crops are wheat, barley and root,s. The parish is rick : the structure, at one time unroofed and dismantled, diYided into Highlands, containing the mother church. WJS effecti"lely restored in 1863, under the direction of and Lowlands, containing the two chapels. The area. of ~ir. J. P. St. Aubyn, at a cost of £675: in the church St. Minver Highlands is 5,333 acres of land, 2 of water, yard, which contains tombs and memorials to the Ma'bly 17 of tidal water and 246 of foreshore; rateable value. and other families, including one of debased character £3,919; and of Lowland Si, 2,2186 acres of land; 95 of with two effigir.s rudely executed, to John Mably, bur. 24 tidal water and 754 of foreshore; rateable value, £2,093; .July, 1687, and .Alice, his wife, bur.

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